The wrong reasons.
Today’s Breeze had another article which caught my eye. I have heard that the Council was planning to vote to repeal the ordinance which puts term limits up for vote in April. Here’s the article, at the Daily Breeze.
If our city’s Charter Review Committee is of the opinion that we should allow residents to vote on term limits, we certainly should be doing so. If there were some sort of problem with the ordinance itself, I could see the necessity to repeal it, and have it rewritten. That does not appear to be the case.
Instead, our City Council is attempting to remove a potential “hot button issue” from the ballot, in order to have fewer voters at the polls in April. This is not an acceptable way to run elections, in my opinion. You do not remove ordinances that are ready to go before the voters, because you are afraid they will affect other ordinances. You should, as guardians of our freedoms and liberties, be appalled by anything that would seek to reduce the voice of the people you are charged to serve.
I’ve often said to our City Council, and staff members, that communication is key. Respect is also key. It is disrespectful to the Citizens of Cape Coral to try and control the voter turn out by limiting which ordinances would appear on the ballot.
