Today we have some interesting news. We are now 101 co-sponsors of Our House Joint Resolution 11 sponsored by Representative Ralph Norman. Every day we are closer to passing term limits in Congress. Hi, I’m Holly Robichaud and this is Breaking News on Term Limits.
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Term Limits was a big winner at Old Dominion. Virginia held its primary elections for the legislature. 16 signatories to the term limits were committed. Their primary is to advance to the general election. A 17th signatory won the election outright and will not face an opponent in the general election. So we’re very happy with what’s happening in Virginia and around the country. We are about to pass term limits. Our resolution passed in North Carolina, but time is running out very quickly.
We urge everyone in North Carolina to urge their senators to support our term limits resolution. Please contact them today. Now, it’s time for our updates from Maine States in a special election for the State House, Abden Simmons, signer of the US term limits pledge, was elected. This gives us another support in Maine. Congratulations to Abden Simmons. There will be elections for the state legislature in Virginia and we now have 28 legislative candidates who have signed our pledge.
We are delighted to have them on board. Every state legislator who supports the US term limits resolution and their state is one step closer to passing congressional term limits. Momentum continues to build for our Joint Resolution 11 introduced by Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina. As I mentioned, the resolution known as the US Term Limits Amendment now has 101 co-sponsors, and counting, with bipartisan support. We are pleased to welcome Rep. Max Miller of Ohio, Anne Wagner of Missouri, and Julia Letlow of Louisiana as our latest co-sponsors. We hope that more representatives will follow their example.
Could your representative be the next co-sponsor? We hope so. Please contact your US representative and urge them to co-sponsor House Joint Resolution 11 if they have not already done so by visiting termlimits.com/118house. Thanks. Kevin McCarthy has promised a vote on congressional term limits. This would be the first vote on congressional term limits since 1995. That’s right, 1995. Think about that. The one issue on which all Americans agree, there hasn’t been a vote in 28 years. That’s a lot of time. A couple of decades, almost three. Visit termlimits.com/mccarthy to sign our petition, urging Kevin McCarthy to bring House Joint Resolution 11 up for a vote as soon as possible. let’s do this
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All right. Hey, we’re joined today by Rachel McCubbin, who’s our Kentucky president. He’s the bravest person we know in Kentucky because he’s taking on the issue of term limits in Mitch McConnell’s home state. And we are very happy to have you with us today. Thanks for joining us, Rachel.
Thanks. Holly. I don’t have to be very brave because 84% of my Kentucky… Fellow Kentuckians support term limits. So I’m in great company down here.
Oh, that’s great news. So tell us a little bit about yourself.
Well, I recently retired, it’s kind of funny. But I worked for two previous members. Well, a current member of the US Senate and a former member, US Senator Jim Bunning, and two-term US Senator Rand Paul, who is a big supporter of term limits. And so, I have that kind of naturalness, it’s an issue that I’m very supportive of. And once I retired and had the opportunity to get involved in some things where I was going out on my own, I was thrilled to be asked to do that.
All right. Well, we’re glad to have you. So why did you decide to tackle this topic in Kentucky of all places?
Well, I’ve seen a lot of it up close and personal from my time serving in the United States Senate. I have a great love for this institution, I will be very honest. And I just see it stopping in so many ways. For me, the simple solution is term limits. And I feel like a broken record on this, but I tell everyone that this is not about a referendum on an individual, but about fixing the total system. That’s why I support term limits in every way, even for people like my friend Rand Paul, and he does too. So I had the energy and now the time and bandwidth to get involved with something. So the term limits debate makes a lot of sense to me.
Well, we’re very happy to have you as part of our efforts, so.
Thanks.
Like the people in Kentucky… When you tell the people… When you go over there and say, “I do it with term limits.” How do people react? I mean, especially with Senator Mitch McConnell down there and he’s adamantly opposed to us.
Well, I want to start by saying that I live in the 1st congressional district, and our congressman is James Comer, who people in the district refer to as Jamie Comer. And he is one of the co-sponsors of your legislation in Washington. So the people of the first district, the voters of the first district are well represented by a member of Congress who is right on our team here. But I just move on, I don’t care too much about who opposes us. I want to be a marshal of the people who support us. And I feel like I do kind of… A lot of random conversations with people. And I’m not one to approach a stranger. But let me give you an example. I have a little puppy that we are training and trying to socialize her and get her to come out, and I will only strike up a conversation with someone who is normally around the puppy.
And then I will ask them: “How is the economy working for you? How’s your business going?” And then I’ll just say, “Let me ask you a random question. How do you feel about term limits for Congress?” Now, I didn’t ask if there are Republicans, Democrats, or independents, I just want to know how they feel about term limits for Congress. And generally, it’s, “Yes, we support term limits.” So our job now is to make sure that our legislators understand that this is a widely held view in the constituency and pass the resolution that we have in the Kentucky House. And then get for President McCarthy to fulfill a promise, I think he has made, to bring it to a vote in Washington, which would be very exciting.
Yes. Well, great. Well, thank you very much. Thank you for all the efforts you are making there in Kentucky for us, and you will help us win this state. So I’m so…
Well, I keep seeing states that are passing these resolutions. I saw it over North Carolina. I am very proud of them. And we only need to add one state at a time, and we need Kentucky to be close to North Carolina.
Oh, that would be great. That would be great.
Yes.
Well, thanks for joining us today.
Thanks for the invite, Holly, and thanks for all the work you’re doing.
Oh thanks.
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Now it’s time for the corrupt politician of the week. This week, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski makes our list. Murkowski was appointed — that is, appointed — to the United States Senate by her father, who had given up his Senate seat when he was elected governor in 2002. As you can imagine, she is no friend of Term Limits. In July 2007, Murkowski said she would resell the land she bought from Anchorage businessman Bob Penny, a day after a watchdog group filed a Senate ethics complaint against her alleging that Penny sold him the property well below market value.
The Anchorage Daily News wrote that the transaction amounted to an illegal gift worth between $70,000 and $170,000, depending on how the property was valued according to the National Legal Policy Center’s complaint. According to the Associated Press, Murkowski bought the land from two developers linked to an investigation by fellow Alaska senator Ted Stevens.
In 2008, Murkowski amended his Senate ethics financial disclosure for 2004 through 2006, adding income of $60,000 a year from the sale of the property in 2003 and more than $40,000 a year from the sale of Alaska Pasta Company in 2005. deals, time for term limits, don’t you think? Congressional term limits may become a reality.
Look at the momentum we have. We now have 101 co-sponsors of our Joint House Resolution 11, but we can’t do it alone. We need your help. Please go to termlimits.com and get involved today and be sure to share this show with your friends every week. This is Holly Robichaud with the latest news on US term limits. See you next week.
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