GOP-run states taking 'explosive' steps to override Democratic-run city governments - RawStory

[GGoss]

GOP-run states taking 'explosive' steps to override Democratic-run city governments - RawStory

According to a report from CNN, red states like Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, Missouri, and others are launching a new front in their quest to seize authority over local prosecutors and policing policies.

“If left unchecked, local jurisdictions in states with conservative legislatures whose political majority does not match their own may find themselves subject to commandeering on an unprecedented scale,” the Legal Defense Fund's Janai Nelson tells CNN.

Red states want to override the decisions of blue cities on issues such as minimum wage, environmental regulations, mask mandates, and criminal justice reform. Marissa Roy of the Local Solutions Support Center says a lot of the criminal justice reform preemption "is in direct response to the Black Lives Matter movement."

"Many of the red state moves to preempt local district attorneys have targeted the so-called 'progressive prosecutors' elected in many large cities over recent years," writes CNN. "But there is also an unmistakable racial dimension to these confrontations: In many instances, state-level Republicans elected primarily with the support of White, non-urban voters are looking to seize power from, or remove from office, Black or Hispanic local officials elected by largely non-White urban and suburban voters."

Link: https://www.rawstory.com/republican-state-legislatures/

CNN Report: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/politics/crime-conflict-red-states-blue-states-fault-lines/index.html

Ironic how they are using the subject of Crime, to steal Democracy.

[Takket]

1. They did this in Michigan under Rick Snyder

They called it the “emergency financial manager” law and it was blatantly unconstitutional by giving states the power to basically nullify local elections and insert their own unelected rulers.

And it was a disaster. The EFM law directly lead to the Flint water crisis.

[SharonClark]

2. The GQP Iowa governor and legislature is overruling cities in Iowa on multiple issues from fireworks

to firearms and giving new authority to the crazy-as-Stave-King Iowa AG while trying to hamstring the Iowa Auditor (who is a Dem).

The hypocrisy is deep and they're in a rush to institutionalize their white CINO nationalistic agenda.

[SheltieLover]

3. TN has been at it since covid / masks

Now they're trying to destroy Nashville.

[TheRealNorth]

4. Yet they try to paint us at Tyrants

While they overrule and strip our locally elected officials of their power.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Which means the GOP claim of favoring local government is bullshit