INTERVIEW: Nick Tomboulides on terms limits in Congress.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Every day, Tangle readers write in with questions.
And at least once a week, I get a reader question about term limits for Congress. Do I support them? Do I think they would work? Why don't we have them? Today we sat down with Nick Tomboulides, the Executive Director of U.S. Term Limits and one of the leading experts on term limits in the United States. You might recognize Nick from his 2019 Congressional testimony, which went viral, where he testified before the Senate and told them exactly why he thought they all needed to have their terms limited.
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| 0:40.7 | Good morning. Good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:05.0 | I am your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we are sitting down with Nick Tomolides, the executive director of U.S. |
| 1:11.3 | Term Limits, a nonprofit organization, educating, and advocating for the establishment and |
| 1:16.5 | preservation of term limits. Nick, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:21.6 | Isaac, thank you for having me. Really happy to be on. |
| 1:24.7 | So, Nick, my understanding is that you are now today, one of the top experts on term limits. |
| 1:30.2 | You've testified before Congress. You've pushed to institute them in U.S. government. |
| 1:35.1 | I'm just curious about your story. Maybe you could tell me a little bit about how you got into this space, how you got into politics. |
| 1:41.1 | What's behind all this? |
| 1:43.1 | Sure. Well, I think for me, I started out with sort of |
| 1:46.5 | like a conventional political background. I was really a partisan political activist like many |
| 1:52.5 | of us are. And I drank that Kool-Aid for a while. And eventually I realized that none of these |
| 1:59.9 | candidates on either side of the aisle were really delivering for us because, you know, they were so beholden to their funders and to the special interests. |
| 2:09.3 | And it dawned on me, you know, working in that area that grassroots democracy really doesn't exist in this country and that the little people are |
| 2:19.5 | really kind of ignored by our elected officials. And so, you know, I was banging my head against |
| 2:25.8 | the wall as a campaign worker, as a volunteer, as a grassroots activist, trying to elect different |
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