I was reading the Modbee's article on Measure M.

It appears to me that City officials should really start paying more attention to the voters. When you start to see municipal measures that deal with holding City officials more accountable and limiting terms for City officials, people want more from City staff and their representatives.

We should see these measures, in whatever city, as a clear statement of what people want! Thank goodness for the initiative process!

Thank you California!

I am home with the flu, and finally have a chance to right a few words about this past election.

By defeating the dishonest Proposition 93 and preserving term limits, the voters sent a strong message to the status quo: We believe in term limits.

We think they work. And we want to keep them.

I was very interested and reassured that despite all the money spent trying to force Prop. 93 down our throats, the voters saw through it. In fact, I’m still celebrating!

Now what does this mean for Patterson? I think it means that we have a lot of momentum to enact the overdue term limit measure. I sense that the status quo here in Patterson is completely panicked.

They just saw all of their arguments rejected, and they are now being forced to actually answer some hard questions. I think the first one we need to ask is this: Isn’t it time that Patterson joined the rest of California and instituted term limits? We need to take back our city halls and our city council chambers.

And here’s a message for my neighbors in Patterson: California supports you and supports term limits. Join us!

Desperate politicians ....

Reading John Fund's must read article in the Wall Street Journal on term limits today, he say's Prop. 93, the phony term limit initiative, is loosing it's luster. Sounds like the politicians who created this measure so they could stay in office longer, didn't take one thing into consideration -- the voters. People are paying attention. They see Prop. 93 for what it is and they want to keep term limits in place.

Another reason to read this article is to see how desperate the politicians are to stay in office. When you read about these antics, it makes you realize why we need to keep our term limits laws in place . This is also a perfect time to call for every municipal district to enact their own term limits measure.

Articles like the one in today's L.A. Times are eye opening. It supports why we need keep our present term limits in tact on the state wide level. Also, Nunez who is pushing the Prop. 93 initative is a big abuser of the system and is an example of why we need to keep the present terms limits in place and vote no. on Prop. 93.