{"id":67722,"date":"2015-09-09T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=67722"},"modified":"2015-09-09T07:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T12:53:01","slug":"dewine-certifies-term-limits-ballot-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/09\/09\/dewine-certifies-term-limits-ballot-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"DeWine certifies term limits ballot issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information<\/i><\/p>\n

Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has submitted to the Secretary of State\u2019s office his certification of the citizen-initiated Strengthen Term Limits Amendment. In a letter to Secretary of State Jon Husted, DeWine called the summary for the proposed amendment a \u201cfair and truthful statement of the proposed law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Attorney General Mike DeWine<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eight is Enough Ohio turned in 1,742 signatures on August 31 to obtain certification for the proposal, which will limit Ohio House and Senate members to no more than eight lifetime years in one chamber, and no more than 12 lifetime years in the legislature.<\/p>\n

Eight is Enough Chairman Ray Warrick hailed DeWine\u2019s decision as \u201ca victory for term limits supporters throughout Ohio,\u201d who will now wait for their amendment to receive a final stamp of approval from the state Ballot Board. According to Warrick, the actions of Ohio\u2019s Constitutional Modernization Commission will be what drive his group to move forward.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolls show 7 in 10 voters oppose the commission\u2019s scheme to lengthen term limits,\u201d he added. \u201cIf the commission continues to neglect the people\u2019s will, which can only be done with misleading ballot language, Eight is Enough stands ready to put stronger term limits on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The amendment, which was written by the 1851 Center\u2019s Maurice Thompson, would not only create a lifetime limit but also close the loophole that doesn\u2019t count appointed terms against term limits. Its certification comes just two days before the Constitutional Modernization Commission is set to meet, although term limits will not be on the group\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n

According to the most recent Akron Buckeye Poll, Ohio voters agree with Eight is Enough that shorter term limits are preferable to longer ones. Seventy percent of voters told the poll that term limits should be kept at eight years, rather than lengthened. But the Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission, set up by the legislature, is pushing a proposal to weaken the term limits by 50 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ohio Attorney General\u2019s information Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has submitted to the Secretary of State\u2019s office his certification of the citizen-initiated Strengthen Term Limits Amendment. In a letter to Secretary of State Jon Husted, DeWine called the summary for the proposed amendment a \u201cfair and truthful statement of the proposed law.\u201d Eight is Enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 21:21:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}