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...career support staff, along with lobbyists and bureaucrats, may run roughshod over green legislators. Furthermore, many states would lose the clout of established Representatives and Senators, the hoary politicos whose years of service guarantee them influence and chairmanships of committees. Says Pat Schroeder, the 10-term Representative from Colorado: "Four states have half the votes in Congress. A state with only six votes and no seniority isn't going to get far. Six votes won't stop a speeding train. I guess people just don't understand we're six out of 435. You've got to have power...
Jaksha's attitude, however, was anything but fringe. He was supporting the ballot proposition to limit the terms of congressional officeholders, a measure that rolled to victory Nov. 8 in Nebraska and six other states: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. Only voters in Utah, which earlier had adopted limits, turned down a proposed addition to their restrictions. The past election brings to 22 the number of states that have imposed term limits on members of Congress since 1990. "It would be pointless to mount an opposition," said Ernie Chambers, a 24-year veteran in the Nebraska state senate...
...Colorado Springs, Colorado...
...major" bowl featuring 6-4-1 vs. 6-5? Would have been better than sullying the January 2 scene further by splitting them apart. Instead, now we get three different undefeated teams playing none of each other, #9 Kansas State exiled to the Aloha Bowl, and even worse, Colorado--which, for my money, is better than all of them, one off-day at Nebraska notwithstanding--reliving a familiar rivalry at the expense of the nation's sanity...
TAXES: Oregon, Missouri and Montana rejected a requirement to put all new tax proposals to public vote. Nevada approved a two-thirds legislative approval for tax increases. Massachusetts rejected a graduated income tax in favor of the current flat rate. Arizona passed a cigarette-tax increase. Colorado rejected one. Oklahoma rejected a 1-cent entertainment tax that would have paid for breast-cancer research...