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For Missouri Legislators, Term Limits Can Create Openings and Obstacles

KBIA | By Hannah Haynes,
Jordan Smith, Sarah Sabatke, Kelly Palecek
Published December 2, 2016 at 3:13 PM CST

The clock starts ticking the day you’re elected into the Missouri legislature. If you’re lucky, you get eight years. Then term limits kick in and it’s time to find a new job. KBIA’s Hannah Haynes spoke to some of those term-limited legislators and found a bipartisan agreement: term limits have a downside.

Copyright 2016 KBIA
Hannah Haynes
Hannah Haynes is studying convergence radio reporting at the University of Missouri. She spent this past fall interning for a radio program and print publication in Brussels, Belgium.
Jordan Smith
Sarah Sabatke
Kelly Palecek