Three terms, that’s what she promised in 1998. Of course, when Lois Capps made that promise everyone knew she didn’t mean it; everyone except U.S. Term Limits. It was the financing from U.S. Term Limits that helped Lois Capps defeat Republican Tom Bordonaro.Tom Bordonaro, a conservative, supported term limits, but refused to sign a pledge to self limit. Lois Capps did not, and does not, believe in term limits, but signed the pledge by U.S. Term Limits stating at the time that she’d likely not run for a fourth term due to her age.
It has been six years - three terms; will Lois Capps keep her promise? If she doesn’t will U.S. Term Limits help defeat her? In 2000 U.S. Term Limits spent some where in the vicinity of $1 million going after Republican George Nethercutt for breaking his pledge. Allowing Lois Capps to slide by after her cynical signing of the term limits pledge will leave a bad taste in the mouth of California Republicans who remember very well how U.S. Term Limits delivered an important victory to the Democrats in 1998.
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She appears to be playing with a cutout of a gingerbread man...is she perhaps running for office to divert attention away from the fact that she is....The witch who lives in the Gingerbread House!!! Just a thought. Those who sign the pledges, especially those in the age group of the Clinton's, believe that the intent of the moment will be supperseeded by the need of the time..Time will tell.
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