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minutes 03-08-00Page 12 of 35 <br />MARTIN: The term limit is stuck, and even me, I got a few calls. <br />RAY: So, I think we need to be able to understand that. <br />HIGASHI: Once you explain it to them, then they felt more comfortable? <br />RAY: I’m not sure, but at least they understood it. I don’t think it’s anything so outrageous. <br />HERKES: It’s not a deal breaker. <br />RAY: Hopefully it is, but - <br />HERKES: You’d just as soon it would. <br />MARTIN: John, with that discussion, would it be possible, if it were to be fed back to us, and Chris, I guess it’s going to <br />direct towards you to answer this question, to remove it and exclude them from running? <br />RAY: Sure. <br />MARTIN: In other words, say your term limit is 8 years and we’re not going to extend it. <br />HERKES: I’d love it. <br />RAY: Of course. <br />YUEN: Yes. They can still run for two years in another district. <br />MARTIN: But we wouldn’t be impeding on their rights, then? <br />YUEN: No, you’d not be. <br />IRVINE: You don’t think they’d get a lawyer and come and try to sue? Is that what Roland asked before? <br />YUEN: I think this is the same question Roland asked me. <br />IRVINE: Yes, okay. <br />YUEN: And basically I said anybody can go to a lawyer, and they would have something they could say about it but my <br />judgment is that they would have a pretty weak case. <br />HIGASHI: Clearly they could take hiatus for two years and then run for office again. <br />YUEN: Right. <br />MARTIN: Right now they can do that, I believe, everyone. <br />HERKES: There’s all kinds of things they can do, and we’re getting confused and distracted by that issue. <br />HIGASHI: In terms of public relations on their part, that would a better thing to do. <br />RAY: I just want to be prepared. You know people dwell on the small things, so I just want to be as well prepared to answer <br />them as possible. <br />MARTIN: I guess what I’m saying is if we do get the feedback that you’re expecting, and you’ve gotten some phone calls, I, <br />too, have received a few, on the fact of term limit, then it’s an option that we could possibly say, well, is it acceptable? <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 03-08-00.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />