LANSING — Happy Thanksgiving! May your turkey not be dry, and you and yours celebrate happily this year. But when the holiday is over, and government gets back to work, there’s something I won’t be thankful for: Term limits for Michigan’s elected officials.

They were sold to the voters back in 1992 as a way of getting new ideas and people in government and limiting the power of special interest groups and lobbyists. Instead, the opposite happened. They did get new people in, but often, by the time they figured out how things really worked, they were gone. Legislators can stay a maximum of a dozen years on the job in Lansing.

They can spend that time in a single chamber (three state Senate or six state House terms) or divide their time between the two. Twelve years in the same chamber mak

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