Ilario Pantano is excited to announce that, after due consideration, he has joined the Alliance for Bonded Term Limits, and looks forward to promoting the issue in this election and in future elections.

Ilario Pantano is the first member of the NRCCs Young Guns program to sign a bonded term limits pledge. This is crucial in emphasizing that there is a new breed of citizen leadership rising up from the States.  These are citizen representatives that truly understand the warnings of the Founding Fathers:

"The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress." -James Madison & Alexander Hamilton

And from George Mason, in 1788, in a speech at the Constitutional Convention:

"Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens."

Such lessons from the greatest minds our nation has ever known have impelled Pantano to pledge himself to limiting his service in Congress to six terms or less, bonded by $250,000 payable to the Wounded Warriors Foundation should he renege. 

"I've lived my life in all ways to keep my word, and my word is my bond." said Pantano.  Yet, due to the high percentage of the Class of '94 electoral pledges that were dishonored, Pantano has realized that the people, rightfully so, ought not blindly trust a candidate's word.   So he has done far more than promise; he has reinforced his word with a contractual bond.

It is notable that the incumbent Mike McIntyre (D, NC-7), promised only six terms, but in fact is now seeking his eighth. By all accounts he is a good Christian man, and yet even he has succumbed to the influences our Founding Fathers warned against:

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct." -Thomas Jefferson

Any man who enters politics and does not fiercely and tangibly guard against the clearest of all dangers to his honor and integrity, is bound to fail.  Such is not the case with Ilario Pantano.  Clearly, he aims to stand out from among the rest and lead by example.