City of Lake Forest Term Limits, Measure X (November 2014)
A City of Lake Forest Term Limits, Measure X ballot question was on the November 4, 2014 election ballot for voters in the city of Forest Lake in Orange County, California. It was approved.
Upon approval, Measure X required a city council member that had served three consecutive four-year terms to take two years off before running for election again. Without Measure X, the city would have continued with no term limits.[1]
Election results
| Orange County, Measure X | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 12,534 | 77.2% | ||
| No | 3,693 | 22.8% | ||
Election results via: Orange County Registrar of Voters
Support
Councilman Adam Nick, who proposed that the council discuss term limits, said that it would remove the power of incumbency and allow for a new perspective on the city's council.[1]
Opposition
The opposition for Measure X can be broken up into two parties. One side disagreed with the principle of term limits and thought the city should have continued without them. The other thought that Measure X was ineffectual and symbolic at best. This side thought that the city should have much more stringent term limits, such as banning any council member that serves three terms from ever returning to office.[1]
Marcia Rudolph, who served on the council for 19 years and was a member of the city's first council in 1991, called term limits un-American and warned that there could be negative consequences unforeseen by the council members and voters.[1]
Forest Lake resident Jim Gardner suggested the council put a lifetime term limit measure on the ballot. He said of the two-year hiatus rule in Measure X, "Can you really say that with a serious face that that's term limits?"
Councilman Peter Herzog, who was the only city council member who voted against putting Measure X on the ballot, proposed a life-time term limit of two terms. His proposal did not gain the support of any other council members. He said, "We need to have a term limit that means something."[1]
See also
- Local term limits on the ballot
- Orange County, California ballot measures
- November 4, 2014 ballot measures in California
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