Sample Letter for Requesting a Candidate’s Support
We strongly encourage you to send your candidates personalized letters explaining the benefits term limits afford the state of Georgia. While you’re free to write what term limits mean to you, we’ve done our best to provide a starting point for you here.
Remember, you can also request a candidate’s support at the click of a button on their District Page!
[Candidate's Name],
I am requesting that you pledge your support for Term Limits for legislators in Georgia. This is an important issue in the upcoming election, and your pledge will help voters decide if you have their best interests at heart.
To read the proposed Legislation, see: http://www.accountablegeorgia.com/term-limits-proposal/
To pledge support for term limits, please visit: http://www.accountablegeorgia.com/pledge/
- Why Are Term Limits Important? -
Term limits have several advantages. One of the most obvious advantages is that it provides incentive for our Legislature to pass legislation in a fast and timely manner. It discourages them from entering legislation that they do not view as a major priority for Georgia as their time is limited. This yields better legislation, and ultimately a better Georgia.
It also increases competition and new ideas in the system. In our modern political system, the incumbency advantage has a crippling effect on new blood in our legislature. This measure would enact Consecutive Term Limits, restrict a Representative or Senator to running for four terms (eight years), and then require that person to take one term away from that office. This would allow for the Legislator to run for another office or to take two years and return to the private sector. By creating Consecutive Term Limits we remove the incumbency advantage from a Legislator once every decade, increasing competition in our political field, and funneling new ideas into the system. Nothing bars a Legislator from re-winning their seat after their required two year break is completed, and they may run in this pattern as many times as their voters will have them.