Term Limits
Four points concerning the controversy over the federal court’s setting aside the California term-limits initiative:
* When I voted I did not perceive whether a lifetime ban was included (despite my graduation from a first-rate law school decades ago).
* Only when the California Supreme Court decided the initiative’s constitutionality was it found that term limits are for life; and the court itself stated: “We agree with respondent [Secretary of State] Eu that the language of Proposition 140 is ambiguous as to its intent to impose a lifetime ban.”
* It seems obvious that voters are entitled to know what they are voting on before, not after, they punch their ballots.
* It is wrong to ascribe evil motives to federal judges who try to remedy this mistake.
MELVIN LENNARD
Pacific Palisades
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