We're a citizen-led accountability project. We read the minutes, follow the money, cite our sources, and hold local officials to the promises they ran on. No party. No spin. Just the record.
Citizens for Sane Leaders supports democratic leadership that plays by the rules. We believe most local officials serve honorably. But when an official rewrites, sidesteps, or sues away the rules that limit their own power, someone has to notice, document it, and tell the voters.
That someone is us. We started in Clarkstown, in Rockland County, New York. We're building tools and campaigns that any community can use — because self-dealing incumbents aren't a local problem. They're everywhere.
A promise made to voters is a contract. Officials who campaign on limits to power should live under them — not litigate their way out.
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Every claim we make links to a court ruling, an official record, or independent reporting. If we can't source it, we don't say it.
Democracy is won or lost closest to home. Town halls decide your taxes, your roads, your police — and get the least scrutiny.
Clarkstown Supervisor George Hoehmann campaigned on term limits, helped enact them — then sued his own town to escape them. Our campaign documents the record and asks one question: if a leader won't honor the limits he wrote, why would he honor anything else?
AI-assisted, human-reviewed summaries of every published Clarkstown public meeting — Town Board, Planning, Zoning, Ethics, and more. Know what your government decided last Tuesday without reading forty pages of minutes.
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This isn't a rumor mill. It's the public record of how one official campaigned on term limits, then dismantled them for his own benefit.
The Town Board adopts Local Law No. 9-2014, setting an eight-year limit for all Clarkstown elected officials — a reform George Hoehmann championed as a candidate.
Term-limited out of a third supervisor bid, Hoehmann files suit against the Town of Clarkstown to void the very law he had run on.
New York's appellate courts rule the 2014 law invalid — not because term limits are wrong, but because the town never held a public referendum. The limit disappears; the voters never got a say. News 12 coverage →
Freed from the limits he wrote, Hoehmann has since won re-election twice. The lesson: accountability isn't one election. It's a habit. We're building it.
Sources: court rulings and independent local reporting, linked throughout. Full documentation at DumpGeorge.com.
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