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Also note that term limits have their own second- and third-order effects: the lobbying firms on K Street and whatever the equivalent is in Sacramento/your stat

Also note that term limits have their own second- and third-order effects: the lobbying firms on K Street and whatever the equivalent is in Sacramento/your state are able to recruit from a pipeline of lame duck and soon-to-be lame duck legislators. The influence peddling hasn't stopped, it has merely moved into the periphery, which is more opaque and even less accountable to the people than the government is today. And any law enacted to prohibit such arrangements (and have teeth) would very likely run afoul of the First Amendment.

dragonwriter 6y ago
> the lobbying firms on K Street and whatever the equivalent is in Sacramento/your state are able to recruit from a pipeline of lame duck and soon-to-be lame duck legislators. Sure, they could, but those that aren't playing the term limit shuffle between different positions aren't building up either durable connections or deep knowledge that would be useful to lobbying firms, and the ones that are doing the shuffle aren't any more of a pipeline than legislators in a non-term-limited scheme (career unelected staffers, on the other hand, flow freely back and forth between legislative and lobbying work, and unlike fly-by-night legislators do have both durable connections and deep knowledge.)