In his bid for a re-match against Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson to be the Republican nominee for Senate District 27, candidate Gary Humble vows to “put Tennessee voters back in charge.” This is ironic, for two reasons. First, his platform includes a pledge to seek “term limits for our General Assembly.” We already have term limits; they are called “elections,” and the voters can send a legislator home at the end of his term by voting for a different candidate (as Humble hopes will happen to Sen. Jack Johnson in 2026). Term limits would keep popular legislators with proven track records from continuing to serve in Congress or the General Assembly. Preventing voters from re-electing someone they trust is hardly putting them “back in charge.”

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