Albuquerque mayoral candidate Richard Romero sent out an e-mail to supporters yesterday in honor of the upcoming 4th of July holiday (it’s tomorrow, have you bought your fireworks yet?).

In it, he hit incumbent mayor Martin Chavez again — this time on the issue of term limits.

One of the sacred causes of our democratic system of government has been the establishment of term limits. Chief executives such as the president and governor are limited to two terms because the designers of the law knew the importance of limiting centralized power.

Romero said that if elected mayor that he will “lobby the Legislature to amend the state constitution to ensure term limits are brought back to the Mayor of Albuquerque’s office.”

Chavez, of course, successfully challenged term limits last year. This allowed him to run for an unprecedented fourth term as mayor. Though Chavez has yet to “officially” announce his intention to run, he has already qualified for the ballot and for public financing.