Term limits claim 13 Nebraska state senators while two are leaving for other reasons. That’ll mean 15 new faces in the nation’s only one-house nonpartisan legislature come January.
I’ve made it clear before how I feel about term limits. I don’t like them.This isn’t the Washington, DC, swamp.This is Nebraska, one of those mostly square states out west where it’s not that hard to vote somebody out of office. It has worked for years.
Then along came the twoterm limit, eight years, and institutional memory went out the window. Ray Aguilar, Ernie Chambers and Steve Lathrop all stayed away for the mandatory four years and managed to get elected again. Ernie, who is running again, has 46 years in the Legislature under his belt. Often vilified and the likely reason that voters adopted term limits, Chambers knows and plays the legislative rule book like a piano.
