Term Limits Initiative Fails To Make Ballot

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A political group has fallen short trying to get a term limits initiative on the Mississippi ballot.

The Secretary of State’s office spokeswoman, Anna Moak, said Monday that United Conservatives Fund missed Wednesday’s deadline to submit petitions.

The political action committee proposed limiting legislators and statewide office holders to two consecutive, four-year terms.

The group is led by Republican state Sen. Chris McDaniel of Ellisville, who lost a U.S. Senate race in 2014.

McDaniel started the term limits effort the same year he won a third term in the Legislature. He said then that “the power of incumbency has built a wall between people and their representatives.”

Organizers had one year to get petitions signed by 107,200 registered voters.

Mississippians defeated term limits initiatives on the 1995 and 1999 ballots.