To the editor:

We need a drastic change to our state legislature. Over the last several decades, our legislature has consisted of mainly the wealthy or members who are invested in or own state businesses. As a result, too many times, they have voted to protect their own interests.

They haven’t paid the state’s share of the state retirement system, and they own billions of dollars, which will ultimately fall to the state taxpayers. They don’t adequately finance the state school systems either. Another thing is the way the teacher tenure was added to the school finance bill with very little discussion of the merits of this amendment. It was railroaded through the legislature.

I think we need term limits to change the membership of the legislature to younger members and to control the length of membership.