Give voice to our Founding values in the halls of Congress
Jim Ryun, Chairman of the Madison Project and former Kansas Congressman, said, "I wish I had served alongside more members with the moral clarity and intellectual honesty of Milton Wolf. He understands that 21st century conservatives need to give
voice to our Founding values in the halls of Congress, and on Main Street. His principled voice on current issues pending before Congress has already empowered Kansans by forcing Senator Roberts to change his voting habits."
My donors are individuals; my opponent's are mostly DC PACs
After 47 years in Washington, Senator Pat Roberts is funding this effort with truckloads of money from his friends, the special interests. According to the most recent documentation available online from the Federal Election Commission:
Pat Roberts has raised over $715k, nearly 60% of his funds raised this election cycle, from Political Action Committees.
Pat Roberts has raised over $435k from the Washington DC metro area alone.
The Washington special interests are funding Pat Roberts' desperate election-year conversion because they need him to continue voting for their big government agenda.
Since announcing his campaign for U.S. Senate,
Dr. Milton Wolf has raised well over $250,000 from over 2,700 individual donors. Dr. Wolf has received contributions from individuals all across Kansas and from all 50 states. Conservatives are eager for new leadership in the U.S. Senate.
Signed term limit pledge: 6 years House; 12 years Senate.
Wolf signed pledging 6-year term limit
Organizational Self-Description: U.S. Term Limits, the nation's oldest and largest term limits advocacy group, announced that 14 new signers of its congressional term limits amendment pledge have been elected to the 114th Congress. The group includes five new senators, eight new House members and one House incumbent who signed the pledge for the first time this cycle. The pledge calls for members to co-sponsor and vote for a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three terms (six years) and Senators to two terms (12 years). The USTL President said, "The American people are fed up with career politicians in Washington and strongly embracing term limits as a remedy. Gallup polling shows that 75% of Americans support term limits."
Opposing legal argument: [ACLU, Nov. 7, 2014]: In U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton (May 22, 1995), the Court ended the movement to enact term limits for Congress on a state-by-state basis. The Court held that the
qualifications for Congress established in the Constitution itself could not be amended by the states without a constitutional amendment, and that the notion of congressional term limits violates the "fundamental principle of our representative democracy 'that the people should chose whom they please to govern them.'"
Opposing political argument: [Cato Institute Briefing Paper No. 14, Feb. 18, 1992]: Several considerations may explain political scientists' open hostility to term limitation:
Political scientists were instrumental in promoting the professionalization of legislators.
They are cynical about the attentiveness, general knowledge, and judgmental capacity of the average voter.
They are committed to the conservation of leadership.
They perceive attacks on professional politicians as a threat to their own self-proclaimed professionalism.
And political partisanship may encourage them to oppose term limits.
Source: Press release from U.S. Term Limits 16-USTL on Nov 8, 2014