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Related: About this forumGiant pig touring Michigan to support term limits
Jeff Tillman is taking this pig around the state, urging people to talk to their lawmakers about keeping term limits.
By Emily Lawler
If you happen to spot a giant pig rolling through your town, its there to support the term limits put on lawmakers in Lansing.
A group called Dont Touch Term Limits, a grassroots coalition of people who supported the effort to put them in place in Michigan in the 1990s, is behind the effort, said Scott Tillman.
His father, Jeff Tillman, is the one escorting the pig across the state.
Im the hog wrangler, he jokes.
In Lansing, lawmakers and key groups have been having preliminary discussions about loosening Michigans term limits, which some view as too restrictive.
Read more: https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/12/giant-pig-touring-michigan-to-support-term-limits.html
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Giant pig touring Michigan to support term limits (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Dec 2019
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murielm99
(31,463 posts)1. I don't like term limits.
Glorfindel
(9,931 posts)2. It's cute, but I was hoping for a REAL giant pig.
Like maybe someone had captured one of the "hogzillas" they keep shooting in south Georgia and Alabama. I'm ambivalent about term limits. It would be great if vermin like Moscow Mitch were limited to two (or one) terms, but we'd also lose many effective Democratic senators and congresspeople.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)3. That sword cuts both ways...
but in this case, you at least get some bacon.
tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)4. This is not a grassroots action!
It is sponsored by a national organization. US termlimits.com. Probably not the correct web address but that is on purpose.