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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19WANTED: CANDIDATES, NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- 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."
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