Right-wing WI GOP power misers Gov. Scott Walker and sidekick AG Brad Schimel
have been using state power to wipe local communities' priorities and procedures - - 'local controls,' if you will - - off the books wherever they can.
This power grab includes ending long-standing contracting with unions and public employees, slashing wage rates on construction projects, enacting restrictive limits on early voting hours, easing environmental oversight of polluters, rolling back mining rules and protections - - all disregarding local citizen and governments; decision-making.
But, hey look: Brad Schimel spotted an opportunity to look the local control hero by supporting local school boards in setting transgender bathroom policy - - because its a way to cozy up to GOP 'strongman' Donald Trump, and even better, to take another kick at LGBTQ rights, a powerless constituency - - already stressed transgender kids - - and Schimel's frequent target, Barack Obama.
Hence this spectacularly and hypocritically inconsistent mouthful:
have been using state power to wipe local communities' priorities and procedures - - 'local controls,' if you will - - off the books wherever they can.
This power grab includes ending long-standing contracting with unions and public employees, slashing wage rates on construction projects, enacting restrictive limits on early voting hours, easing environmental oversight of polluters, rolling back mining rules and protections - - all disregarding local citizen and governments; decision-making.
But, hey look: Brad Schimel spotted an opportunity to look the local control hero by supporting local school boards in setting transgender bathroom policy - - because its a way to cozy up to GOP 'strongman' Donald Trump, and even better, to take another kick at LGBTQ rights, a powerless constituency - - already stressed transgender kids - - and Schimel's frequent target, Barack Obama.
Hence this spectacularly and hypocritically inconsistent mouthful:
[Schimel] believes the issue is best handled locally where voters have "the most direct impact" on policies.As noted above, a politicized, principle-free one-off. Schimel and Walker are statist power accumulators, with no true regard for local controls.
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