{"id":1390042,"date":"2022-03-18T18:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1390042"},"modified":"2022-03-19T20:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T00:44:48","slug":"report-leadership-in-state-legislatures-sees-mass-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-leadership-in-state-legislatures-sees-mass-exodus\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Leadership in State Legislatures Sees Mass Exodus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-leadership-in-state-legislatures-sees-mass-exodus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1390042&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Roughly a third of the leadership across the country\u2019s\u00a099 state legislative chambers have made plans to exit after their current term at the end of the year, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Making room for a new group of leaders after the upcoming election, at least 30\u00a0state House Speakers, Senate presidents, and majority leaders have either resigned early or have given notice that they plan to retire, according to a\u00a0tracker maintained by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), which the\u00a0<em>Hill<\/em> first <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/598659-legislative-leaders-head-for-the-exits?utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=New+Campaign&#038;utm_term=News+Alerts&#038;rl=1\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>South Carolina\u2019s Republican state House Speaker Jay Lucas was the last person in leadership to announce an exit after working over 25 years in the state\u00a0legislature.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However,\u00a0it is not uncommon to see a lot of turnover in an election year, especially after some legislators have been there as long as Lucas. Data from\u00a0NCSL showed 20 speakers and presidents left in 2020, with another four losing elections and 35 hsving left office in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs sessions start to wrap up, that is when we start to see leaders make announcements one way or the other,\u201d said Stacy Householder, a director of the NCSL, taking note of the election year\u2019s\u00a0short legislative sessions. \u201cWe\u2019re actually right on par with past election years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some states \u2014 Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, and Montana \u2014 will see all new\u00a0leadership teams next year after the elections after seeing their state\u2019s speakers and top senators leave, the <em>Hill<\/em> noted. While some of them are actually retiring from the public eye, a lot are seeking a different office, such as a governorship, the state\u2019s\u00a0agriculture commissioner, or a U.S. Senate seat.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly a third of the leadership across the country\u2019s\u00a099 state legislative chambers have made plans to exit after their current term at the end of the year, according to a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}