GOP now out to destroy liberal cities too - they want TOTAL control

[CousinIT]

GOP aims to rein in liberal cities

. . .

Republican legislators around the country say liberal cities and counties vastly overstepped their bounds by implementing new taxes on sodas and sugary beverages, by raising local minimum wages or through strict new environmental regulations.
“What we see is circumventing the process that’s in place,” said Linda Upmeyer, the Republican speaker of the Iowa state House. “I think we will likely look at language on preemption so that the state is making decisions where it ought to, and cities and counties are making decisions where they should.”

Democrats and city officials, however, see the preemption laws as a power grab aimed at limiting local governance in their party’s last bastions of political power — which have become ground zero in the fight to resist Trump.

Preemption laws are nothing new in American history. The Supremacy Clause in the U.S. Constitution makes clear that federal law supersedes state law, and similar clauses in state constitutions give state laws precedence over local laws.

In recent decades, tobacco companies have used preemption laws to overcome local smoking bans, and the National Rifle Association turned to preemption to block cities from implementing new gun control measures.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/312766-gop-aims-to-rein-in-liberal-cities

[crazycatlady]

1. This is why we need more Democrats elected at the state level

Focus on your own state legislators. Even if they're GOP, they have to listen to you. Call, email, write, etc.

Come 2018 (or 2017 if you're in NJ or VA) vote them out. Support their opponent with your time or money.

[Ohioblue22]

6. like bernie says " now it is time for democrats to run for

school boards ,city council state legislature and governorships"

[bdamomma]

2. NY should kick his aSS

out of Trump tower.

[RKP5637]

4. Build a wall around it as a public hazard and condemn it!!! n/t

[onecaliberal]

5. That

[pbmus]

3. can another 25-30 million people fit into california??????

[KamaAina]

7. Massachusetts used one years ago to end rent control

in Boston, Cambridge and Brookline, the only municipalities that had it.

edit: Worse still, it was a ballot initiative, so voters at the far ends of the Commonwealth got to decide those three cities' housing policy.

[Initech]

8. The GOP is a virus, they're destroying a perfectly healthy host.

[JSup]

9. I guess it's time...

...for a return to city-states.

If the state government withholds funding, just keep their state sales taxes.