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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: June 07, 2018, 10:26:47 PM »

It's cloudy language, but in California, the term limits for governor were added by the same proposition 140 that added term limits to the legislature. Applying the explicit rules for legislators to executive offices would mean that someone could run for governor only if they hadn't served more than four years.  So if Newsom had to serve part of Brown's term, he could only run for a second term of his own if he resigned before the fourth anniversary of when he took office.
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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2018, 07:55:23 AM »

Incidentally, South Carolina's term limit law isn't nearly as restrictive. For instance, while Haley couldn't have run this year regardless of whether she'd stayed in office, she can run in 2022, as the limit here is to being elected twice in a row before having to sit out once. If McMaster wins this year, he'd be able to run for reelection in 2026.
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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2018, 01:37:35 PM »

I ask myself how this issue applies to Virginia. Say in early 2021 Governor Ralph Northam resigns to take a cabinet post under a Democratic president, would then-succeeded Governor Justin Fairfax be able to run for reelection later that year? In history, there is no precedent.
Yes, because he wouldn't be running for reelection, he'd be running for election, unless he chose to run for his old office again since Virginia has no term limits on being Lieutenant Governor. Indeed, given how late in the election cycle this would likely happen, it's probable that Fairfax would run in 2021 for whatever office he'd been planning on running anyway, which very well could have been governor.
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