Candidate Scottie MayfieldScottie Mayfield’s self-imposed term-limit pledge is attracting criticism from both sides of the political aisle, but the dairy executive appears to be standing firm.
Mark Caldwell, a conservative blogger from Lookout Mountain, said Mayfield missed the point of term limits when the dairy executive promised to serve no more than 10 years if he unseats U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann in Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District Republican primary.
In a newsletter emailed Friday to mostly Republican activists, Caldwell skewered Mayfield’s belief that a term-limit pledge “creates the opportunity to vote for what the member believes is right” on controversial issues that might otherwise jeopardize re-election.
“Limiting congressional terms,” Caldwell wrote, “has nothing to do with how a member of Congress votes.”
Caldwell said term limits are important for a different reason — to limit “power and money which ensures their perpetual re-election and undermines the democratic process.” He called Mayfield “clueless” and advised Republican primary voters to “stay vigilant against this menace.”