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Palm Beach County Commission to workshop extending their terms
PBCJolt.com ^ | 3/27/2022 | Jack Furnari

Posted on 03/27/2022 7:29:42 AM PDT by Jacvin

Despite the public voting overwhelmingly in 2002 to term limit county commissioners, this Tuesday, the issue will be “workshopped” to get commissioners another four-year term.

The workshop includes adding four years so that each commissioner can serve twelve consecutive years.

Commissioners can only serve two consecutive terms for eight years currently.

The commissioners can’t just change the law, but they can vote to put it on the ballot as a charter amendment with gobbledygook language designed to confuse the voters, so they get their way.

This plot has been brewing for a while. The commission voted to have staff study the issue in November of 2021.

The staff knows what the commissioners want to hear.

(Excerpt) Read more at pbcjolt.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: countycommission; elections; florida; termlimits
The headline should have said "scheming" to extend their terms.
1 posted on 03/27/2022 7:29:42 AM PDT by Jacvin
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To: Jacvin

Term limits do not determine corruption.

If you elect bad people, short term limits speed up the corruption. If they have more time they relax a bit. My theory is you get the same amount of corruption no matter the term limits.

If you elect good people, they have more time to do good.


2 posted on 03/27/2022 7:41:54 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Jacvin

To add to the thinking.

It is the election that is important, not the term limits. Keep eyes on the ball.............................


3 posted on 03/27/2022 7:49:17 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple
If you elect good people, they have more time to do good.

... and if you elect Democrats, they have more time to do evil.

Regards,

4 posted on 03/27/2022 7:53:56 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

If you elect good people, they have more time to do good.
... and if you elect Democrats, they have more time to do evil.

Regards,


so again, focus on the election, not the term limits.


5 posted on 03/27/2022 7:58:02 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Jacvin

Sooooo much money is flowing into PBC. So many people are moving to PBC. Even though Miami and Ft. Lauderdale are close to the South, PBC didn’t have the issues or congestion. In the last election running for County Commissioner cost well over a million dollars with the money flowing from developers. Those candidates won. The last thing PBC, esp the Northern Part, is development. The S of PBC, Delray and Boca, are essentially Ft. Lauderdale now and lost. People from NE move to PBC. People from Miami move to PBC. Not good.


6 posted on 03/27/2022 8:26:34 AM PDT by Oystir
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To: Jacvin

Term limit the unelected bureaucracy!


7 posted on 03/27/2022 8:39:12 AM PDT by FlyingFish
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To: Jacvin

This is very easy, if these county commissioners could not successfully run for higher office in those eight years, then we don’t want these losses running the county!


8 posted on 03/27/2022 8:45:20 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Jacvin

I would throw them out physically today


9 posted on 03/27/2022 8:45:48 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oystir

“The S of PBC, Delray and Boca, are essentially Ft. Lauderdale now and lost.”

I think of Delray as Mafia-owned—not that Broward County is clean.


10 posted on 03/27/2022 9:12:00 AM PDT by Does so (https://youtu.be/3PxEWB6W8ig ......Ukraine Independence Day Parade. Anthem starts at 15:00)
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To: Does so

I’ve been telling friends for years that every scam in the country goes through Boca (Delray is now Boca.)


11 posted on 03/27/2022 9:19:58 AM PDT by Oystir
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To: PeterPrinciple

“If you elect good people, they have more time to do good.”

Why do so many conservative politicians drift left over time?


12 posted on 03/27/2022 12:35:43 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

“If you elect good people, they have more time to do good.”

Why do so many conservative politicians drift left over time?


They weren’t good people. isn’t it obvious?


13 posted on 03/27/2022 12:38:04 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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