2018 MA Senate race: on Government Reform


Heidi Wellman: Oppose making voter registration easier

Q: Do you support or oppose the statement, "Make voter registration easier"?

A: NO

Source: OnTheIssues interview of 2018 Massachusetts Senate candidate Mar 7, 2018

John Kingston: Washington is broken: term limits for members of Congress

Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Kingston criticized Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wednesday for protecting career politicians and supporting the broken status quo in Washington by refusing to endorse term limits for Members of Congress. Kingston has signed the U.S. Term Limits Congressional Pledge and was praised by the organization in a statement released last week.

"Washington is fundamentally broken, in no small part, because there are too many politicians in Congress whose top priority is getting re-elected, rather than doing what is right for the nation," Kingston said. "That is why I fully support term limits for members of Congress."

"Members of Congress should never forget they are there to serve the citizens that elected them-- not to advance their own political careers," Kingston continued. "Sen. Warren's continued refusal to endorse term limits puts an exclamation mark on her loyalty to the broken status quo in Washington."

Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senate campaign website JohnKingston.com Feb 14, 2018

Beth Lindstrom: For Congressional term limits

Should I earn the opportunity, I will consider my service as a duty, and never as an entitlement. I'm a believer in term limits for everyone in Congress. At most 12 years in the House, and the same for the Senate. Frankly that is closer to the vision of our founders, who wanted citizen legislators and not a permanent governing class.
Source: Sampan.org on 2018 Massachusetts Senate race Oct 23, 2017

Heidi Wellman: Term limits for US Congress

A maximum of two terms for US Senators and four terms for US House Representatives. If we limit the extent of it I strongly believe we will see a decrease in cronyism. The population wants it and if a person can't make a difference in 6 years time, then I believe it would be time for a new replacement anyway. We may find MORE people willing to run for office. Average folk like you and I.
Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senatorial website HeidiForSenate.com Oct 15, 2017

Geoff Diehl: More public access; more checks on state spending

Source: 2018 Massachusetts Senatorial website DiehlForSenate.com Oct 1, 2017

Shiva Ayyadurai: We need term limits against lobbyists & career politician.

What better person to represent Massachusetts than someone who knows information technology, someone who knows biotech, someone who knows how to create jobs. A Senator is someone who is supposed to be a representative. I am de facto the best representative. I am not a lobbyist or a career politician. We need term limits. I'm not looking to do this as a job. One or two terms maximum and then get back to the farm. That's it.
Source: Merion West on 2018 Massachusetts Senate race Jul 24, 2017

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Candidates and political leaders on Government Reform:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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