Today the Florida 4th District Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision that had overturned voter-approved term limits in Broward County.
In other words, the court has ruled that county commissioner term limits are constitutional in Florida.
Yes, Florida’s county commissioner term limits laws are safe (for now) from attack by local politicians via the courts!
It was expected that county term limits would win at the Florida Supreme Court level, but there were concerns about the appellate court case because it looked at a narrower question than home rule and the right of citizens to impose term limits at the county level. The fear was that local politicians would try to use an adverse appellate decision to void local term limits laws before the case got to the Supreme Court. Two Palm Beach County commissioners, for instance, announced they planned to do just that.
But no more.
Today marks a great victory for the voters and a loss for professional politicians.
Thanks to the Broward County attorney’s office for doing a great job in defending the people’s will and all the term limits supporters around the state that rallied behind their popular term limits laws.
For the full story as it unfolded, see the blog www.pbctermlimits.com.
