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GRAPEVINE, Page 19WANTED: CANDIDATES, NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
What if they gave an election and nobody ran? California
enacted term limitations in 1990 amid strong sentiment that the
longer politicians are in office, the less responsive they are
to constituents' concerns. Some people are looking to place the
same sort of limits on the U.S. Congress. The California law
restricts state assemblymen to three terms and state senators
to two terms, and it slashed legislative budgets 38%. This year,
in the first election cycle under the new rules, party regulars
complain that they are having trouble getting qualified people
to stand for election. As one state legislator put it, "Who's
going to run for an office with no future and no budget? People
with nothing better to do. The only constants in Sacramento are
going to be the lobbyists and the staff."