BJ Lawson Distinguishes Himself As a Cincinnatus, Rep. David Price Not So Much...

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Just as alcoholics don't take their first drink intent on becoming alcoholics, politicians don't enter office intent on loosing themselves in immoral governance. How does one then inoculate themself from the enticing nature of immoral governance?

BJ Lawson has settled on one way; limiting his exposure to the seducing nature of government power and influence and at the same time forcing himself to live as a private citizen subjected to the laws he would create.

According to NRO:

Open seats are typically more competitive, so legally required rotation in office tends to give voters a greater opportunity to influence the composition of their elected bodies and reduce the excessive accumulation of political power, as designers of republican forms of government have recognized since the days of ancient Rome.

An innovative approach has helped elevate the issue in some congressional districts this year, however. It’s called bonded term limits. Rather than simply pledging to serve three or four terms and asking for the support of skeptical voters (who, polls show, still favor term limits by wide margins), 13 candidates have signed notes under the auspices of the Alliance for Bonded Term Limits that obligate them to make large donations to charity — $1 million, in some cases — if they violate their term-limits pledge.

The 14th candidate to announce his intention to make a bonded-term-limit pledge is Republican B.J. Lawson, a physician and entrepreneur who is challenging longtime incumbent Democrat David Price in North Carolina’s Fourth District.

David Price who has been in office for 22 years and 12 terms has become infused with immoral governance, supporting ObamaCare, Cap & Trade, TARP, Auto Bailouts, and Stimulus while at the same time rejecting the Balanced Budget Amendment.

Alternatively, BJ Lawson seems to be a man with virtue enough to not only impose term limits on himself, but to back that promise with his pocket book. It is interesting that if he were elected his electorate would eventually loose him to his own virtue. BJ Lawson, has distinguished himself as a true Cincinnatus.



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