In 1994, D.C. residents voted to impose term limits on the city’s elected officials. But in 2019, residents are being told they can’t legally vote on whether term limits should be imposed on the city’s elected officials. Wait, what?

A former longshot mayoral candidate has filed paperwork to put the question on the 2020 ballot.

D.C. Councilmember Vincent Orange made his case in a Washington Post op-ed that the District needs a full-time council, proposing the Full-Time Employment for Council Members Charter Amendment Act of 2011. Orange argues that it’s nearly impossible for District residents to accept that outside employment doesn’t carry with it “conflicts of interest, unethical behavior, corruption and divided loyalties.”

Sometime in the future, members of the D.C. Council may only serve two consecutive terms, but they’ll get paid a lot more for their troubles.

Earlier this week it was D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown pushing for ethics reform, and today’s it’s Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large).

During a candidate forum yesterday in Chevy Chase, seven of the nine candidates running for the At-Large seat on the D.C. Council announced that they’d be willing to fire themselves after two terms if they were to win the April 26 Special Election.

The big news out of New York yesterday was that Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plea to extend the city’s two-term limit so he could run again was approved by the City Council. Sound familiar? It should. In 1994, District voters approved a two-term limit on the mayor, members of the D.C. Council and members of the Board of Education. Seven years later, the D.C. Council voted to repeal the term limits, effectively saving the jobs of…