Judge Rules Against Group Seeking To Circulate Petition

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A group that wants to use professional petition circulators from out of state to put a new term-limit proposal on the ballot has lost a round in federal court. <br/><br/>``Yes on Term

Saturday, September 8th 2007, 6:46 pm

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A group that wants to use professional petition circulators from out of state to put a new term-limit proposal on the ballot has lost a round in federal court.

``Yes on Term Limits'' says it needs professionals to gather signatures to get the term limits proposal on the ballot. But Federal Judge Tim Leonard says state law allows Oklahomans -- not national groups -- to set state policy.

State law has prohibited out-of-state petition circulators since 1969.

The group plans to circulate a petition asking voters to approve a limit of two terms on several elected state offices. Those offices include lieutenant governor, state auditor and inspector, attorney general, state treasurer, labor commissioner and superintendent of public instruction.