Ben Wear On Proposition 9

Here is his article from today, Term limits of unendearment on Nov. 8 ballot. It appears he's trying to keep from taking a position on this proposition. He's laying out the arguments for and against. But near the end of the article he makes a case for the six-year terms:

County commissioners and the governor appoint the board members. Given the high-profile and controversial nature of toll roads, it's unlikely that board members are going to take actions that their overseers violently oppose. And if any of them do, it's a safe bet their six-year term would get shorter in a real hurry.

The only problem with this argument is that in a county like, say, Williamson and in Texas for that matter without, at least at this time, a strong opposition party the board members, nor the elected officials, are fearful of being unseated and therefore that six-year term just insures their unaccountability and their continued corruption.