The executive director of U.S. Term Limits said his organization has yet to find a ballot measure anywhere in America this year “more unethical” than Referendum One in Memphis. The referendum, should Memphis voters pass it, would limit city council members to three terms. But there’s something city officials aren’t telling voters, said U.S. Term Limits Executive Director Nick Tomboulides, when asked about an email City Council Chair Berlin Boyd recently sent out to voters using a .gov email address. “Chairman Boyd and others know voters would never knowingly demolish term limits. They have misleadingly framed this as a pro-term limits measure,” Tomboulides told The Tennessee Star in an email. “The ballot language only tells voters they’d be implementing term limits; not that a two-term limit already exists and is being lengthened to three terms.” U.S. Term Limits is based out of Washington, D.C. and advocates for term limits at all levels of government, according to its website. The premise of the Memphis measure, Tomboulides went on to say, is bad enough because it disregards the wishes of 75 percent of city voters who passed those two-term limit restrictions eight years ago. “If Memphis politicians believe they need more time to…
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