Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“A mystery confounds the minds of North Dakota’s legislators. It has a fake part and a real part. The fake part itself has two parts: 1) how to learn whether voters support term limits, and 2) how to learn how a legislative body can function unless incumbents, whose advantages over challengers enable them to return to office sporting reelection rates exceeding 90 percent, may remain in place until ousted by death or scandal? The answer to the first everyone knows. The answer to the second is to write down procedures and give tutorials and guidebooks on how the legislature works to newcomers in legislative halls. The real mystery, though, is how to overthrow term limits given voters’ massive continuing support?” (10/01/25)