Paul Jacob has been the leading voice of the national term limits movement for the last 15 years, having been instrumental in organizing several record-setting national initiative drives. In 1992 and again in 1996, term limits was voted on in more states in a single election cycle than any other issue in the 100-year history of the voter initiative process.

Jacob is a senior advisor at the Sam Adams Alliance, which produces his ”Common Sense” radio show and internet commentary program (syndicated on over 120 radio stations around the U.S.). Jacob writes a weekly column for Townhall.com as well. He also serves as president of Citizens in Charge, a group he started in 2001, dedicated to expanding initiative and referendum rights to more states.

Jacob ran U.S. Term Limits, the nation’s most active term limits advocacy group, from its inception in 1992 until 1999, becoming the movement’s leading voice. Jacob helped citizens in 23 states place limits on their congressional delegations, prompting columnist Robert Novak to call him “the most hated man in Washington.” But on May 22, 1995, those state-imposed congressional term limits, encompassing nearly half the U.S. Congress, were struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton. Today, 15 state legislatures, 36 governors and thousands of local officials, including those in nine of the country’s ten largest cities, are under term limits. Jacob remains active as a board member and a senior fellow of U.S. Term Limits.

Jacob first came to political prominence in the early 1980s as a draft registration resister. His crusade against forced military service and for the all-volunteer army was featured in Rolling Stone magazine. In 1985, after being convicted of violating the Selective Service Act, he served five months in federal prison, longer than any American draft resister since the Vietnam War.

Jacob was active in the Libertarian Party in the 1980s, serving on the party’s National Committee and from 1987 to 1988 as the party’s national director. In 1988, he worked to put Ron Paul on the ballot for president as a Libertarian, winning ballot access in 47 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam.

You can visit Paul’s personal blog at http://www.pauljacob.com