Video: Term Limits Being Pushed In Ballot Initiative

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A group is starting a ballot initiative that proposes limiting Mississippi lawmakers and statewide elected officials to two back-to-back terms in the same office.

United Conservatives Fund spokesman Keith Plunkett says Monday that the group filed papers Friday with the secretary of state, giving notice that it is beginning the process. People can start circulating petitions in about a month, and they’ll have a year to get signatures from more than 107,200 registered voters.

Mississippi voters defeated term-limits initiatives in 1995 and 1999.

Only the governor and lieutenant governor currently have term limits.

United Conservatives Fund is a political action committee led by Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel of Ellisville, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 2014. He is currently seeking a third term in the Legislature.

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