{"id":6795,"date":"2015-06-04T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2015-06-04T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T17:45:11","slug":"keep-heap-and-keep-term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/keep-heap-and-keep-term-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Heap AND Keep Term Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/term-limit-fat-cat-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6799\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/term-limit-fat-cat-copy.jpg\" alt=\"term limit fat cat copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/term-limit-fat-cat-copy.jpg 740w, https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/term-limit-fat-cat-copy-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sheriff Heap is good for Elbert County and should be retained.<\/p>\n<p>Also, term limits are a necessity in today&#8217;s electoral politics.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore voters should support a measure that would temporarily waive the imposition of a term limit requirement for the office of sheriff, with the proviso that the measure would sunset shortly after the election and thereby reinstate the term limit requirement for the office of sheriff for future elections.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s entrenched politicians calling for the elimination of term limits. The people, however, are more protected from political overreach if they use waivers as required, and leave the hard-won default term limit in place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bipartisanship-cartoon-color-598x334-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6796\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bipartisanship-cartoon-color-598x334-1.jpg\" alt=\"bipartisanship-cartoon-color-598x334-1\" width=\"598\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bipartisanship-cartoon-color-598x334-1.jpg 598w, https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/bipartisanship-cartoon-color-598x334-1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff Heap is good for Elbert County and should be retained. Also, term limits are a necessity in today&#8217;s electoral politics. Therefore voters should support a measure that would temporarily waive the imposition of a term limit requirement for the office of sheriff, with the proviso that the measure would sunset shortly after the election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6800,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}