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Last Updated on Monday, 27 April 2009 09:59 Written by rslcpol Monday, 27 April 2009 09:59
From the BillingsGazette:
A near record number of lawmakers are being ousted from office by term limits at the close of this session, just as many are pointing to the overall drain on experience as a source of partisanship and impasse.
“It has been an utter disaster,” said Eric Feaver, lobbyist for Montana’s MEA-MFT teacher’s union. “The inability of this Legislature to come to a legislative conclusion is one more piece of evidence that term limits have hurt Montana.”
All told, 15 senators and 15 representatives will be termed out, with Republicans taking the hardest hit in both chambers. That is more than in any session since the limits began to take effect in 2000, when 47 veteran legislators hit their service caps.