moderndukes t1_jc4d995 wrote
Reply to comment by Cunninghams_right in How to make Baltimore ungovernable: Add recall elections to the political mix by [deleted]
Agreed on RCV. Alaska uses that exact system but with top 4, Nevada adopted top 5 in November.
> if you're on the city council and you actually care about the city, your institutional knowledge won't be lost because you will take a job as either staff for a particular elected individual, or you will work some other role in the city government and maintain availability to answer questions and advise council members
They’ll go straight into lobbying firms and that’s who will hold the power in the city. This happens every time in every state where legislative term limits get enacted. I think executive term limits are good and healthy, but legislative don’t tend to work out well.
Cunninghams_right t1_jc4gem4 wrote
if they're that easily bought, then we didn't want them as councilmembers. that's why the "but what about the institutional knowledge" argument does not work.
either
- they care about the city, they will take a (well-paid) job that allows them to still assist incoming members. or
- they don't care and were just in it to make money, in which case WE WANT THEM GONE.
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