Term Limits are showing up as a key issue in yet another Congressional race, this one in South Florida's 22nd House district.
In one corner is the term-limited former mayor of West Palm Beach, Lois Frankel, who launched a series of political machinations in 2010 to overturn the city's voter-approved 8-year term limits law. Failing in the face of a public uproar, she announced her candidacy instead for the U.S. Congress.
In the other corner is term-limited former Florida State House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, who worked in a term limited legislature and concluded that the U.S. Congress should be term limited too. Hasner is a signatory of the U.S. Term Limits pledge to cosponsor and vote for Congressional term limits if elected. Beyond this he has pledged to limit his own terms and includes his support for the popular reform prominently in his campaign literature.
In this clip above, Hasner makes his case for term limits. Frankel starts to make a case against, but careens into babble when she accidentally starts to undermine her own argument. Michele Kirk of South Florida's BIZPAC Review tells the full story here.
Polling shows this one to be close, with Democrat Frankel a few points ahead in this Democrat-leaning district. Given the popularity of term limits in Palm Beach County, Hasner is heading into the finish waving the term limits flag which has proven effective in 2012 for other upstarts with credibility on this issue. And Hasner's got that.
Stay tuned!
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