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TexasTowelie

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Mon Dec 16, 2019, 01:39 PM Dec 2019

Giant pig touring Michigan to support term limits [View all]


Jeff Tillman is taking this pig around the state, urging people to talk to their lawmakers about keeping term limits.

By Emily Lawler



If you happen to spot a giant pig rolling through your town, it’s there to support the term limits put on lawmakers in Lansing.

A group called Don’t Touch Term Limits, a grassroots coalition of people who supported the effort to put them in place in Michigan in the 1990s, is behind the effort, said Scott Tillman.

His father, Jeff Tillman, is the one escorting the pig across the state.

“I’m the hog wrangler,” he jokes.

In Lansing, lawmakers and key groups have been having preliminary discussions about loosening Michigan’s term limits, which some view as too restrictive.

Read more: https://www.mlive.com/news/2019/12/giant-pig-touring-michigan-to-support-term-limits.html
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