There might be another guy in front of your post office grabbing your arm again, this time to sign a petition to place a term limits initiative on the November 2010 ballot.

The initiative supported by Term Limits for Missouri, a non-profit organization formed solely to promote this issue, began gathering signatures for its initiative that would amend the Missouri Constitution to term limit all statewide officeholders to (2) four-year terms.

"Missourians have led the nation in the effort to term limit state elected officials and their will has served the state well as new and fresh faces continue to cycle into the work of leading our state" said Term Limits for Missouri President Ed Martin. "But the work of term limits is not done: all state-wide officeholders must face term limits so that we continue to bring fresh air into government and chase out the stale and dank stench of bureaucratic incumbancy."

"In addition, if elected officials in this state think they can override the will of Missourians and change the legislative term limits law that Missourians enacted and face not penalty for their actions, they are sorely mistaken. Those legislators who act to guy [sic] term limits will pay for their mistakes in upcoming elections: no elected official - Democrat or Republican - who votes to limit or to change the legislative term limit laws of this state is worthy of serving in office. Missourians will not forget an act of such greed in power and arrogance in fact."

No specific mention was made of the elected officials that were disregarding term limits previously established. Missouri voters in 1992 approved by a margin of 75 percent an amendment to the state's constitution (Article III, Section 8) limiting the years a legislator may serve in the General Assembly. Prior to this provision, Missouri had no legislative term limits. For more specific information go here.

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