Attorney General Keeps Biased Language in Term Limits Ballot Question

From Oklahomans for Responsible Government:

Despite calls for change, Edmondson refuses to take out misleading sentence

The Attorney General’s Office has submitted the final language for State Question 747 and despite calls for biased language to be removed, it will remain.

Oklahomans for Responsible Government pointed out earlier this month that the Attorney General was changing the proposed language for the ballot measure to impose term limits on statewide elected officials. Specifically, the Attorney General’s version included the following sentences:

It limits the ability of voters to re-elect statewide elected officers. It limits the number of years a person may serve in each statewide elected office.

Now, despite calls for the elimination of the first sentence which is biased and misleading, the final language has been submitted. The only change was combining the two sentences into one:

It limits the ability of voters to re-elect statewide elected officers by limiting how many years those officers can serve

OFRG believes term limits will pass despite the political retaliation of Attorney General Drew Edmondson. Voters overwhelmingly supported legislative term limits in 1990 and polls indicate it’s a winning issue for statewide elected officials, too. It’s just a shame that the Attorney General, who personally lobbied against such a measure last year, would again try to interject politics in an attempt to defeat the ballot measure by confusing voters.