We should expand term limits to all elected offices.
The debate over whether to expand term limits heated up three weeks ago, when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that he would consider a bill to extend the time lawmakers can stay in office, after repeating for months that he would respect the will of voters.
ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson on Wednesday will unveil a set of sweeping proposals to rein in political corruption in state government, including vastly expanded ethics oversight, term limits for all state officeholders and a system of public campaign financing modeled on New York City's, administration officials said on Monday.
Aiming to shape public policy directly, voters in some states have legalized marijuana, raised income taxes, expanded Medicaid and imposed term limits — positions that their lawmakers had opposed or simply avoided.
While bills to create public financing have passed the Assembly many times, the expanded ethics oversight and term limits are expected to be a difficult sell in both houses of the Legislature, which has been slow to consider tougher ethics laws.
Infantino has just 60 days to begin implementing those changes, which include an expanded FIFA executive committee, term limits on senior officials and the public disclosure of FIFA salaries.
The proposal, which would abolish presidential term limits and expand presidential powers, is nothing less than an attempt to establish a socialist state in Venezuela.
Fielding a strong Hispanic candidate in a 40% Hispanic state, the Democrats were expected to oust Johnson, but Johnson won by a 55%-to-45 55%-to-45 55%-to-45 the first Governor of New Mexico to serve two successive four-year terms after term limits were expanded to two terms in 1991.
The dispute at a summit meeting over the weekend of Latin American and Iberian leaders has to some extent eclipsed debate in Venezuela over Mr. Chávez's effort to win approval in a Dec. 2 referendum to expand his powers, partly by ending term limits.
