Originally Posted by
gdeluca
The problem with this IMHO is that voters see name recognition with the same people running and serving year after year. If FT members are not aware of some candidates, it may be easier to vote for who they recognize. There may be a lot of talented FT members who would like to run for TB but hesitate to do so because they may feel there is no chance they will win against established TBers.
I don't disagree with you but how does this differ from, say, a national political election?
There were undoubtedly tens of thousands of Americans better qualified to be President than the several candidates who ran in the last election. But they didn't run and weren't elected because people didn't know who they were.
Folks vote for who they know and who they trust. It's been that way since the beginning of time and erecting term limit barriers is not going to correct this. Folks are still going to vote for who they know and trust.
And just "being known" is no certain pass to getting on TB. I knew a lot of folks in the last election and some of them did not get my vote nor the vote of very many others.