The Little Dictators have changed costumes: now they're Little Weasels.
Republicans running the WI Legislature on behalf of Scott Walker and his donors spent years stripping municipalities of local controls as they slashed funding and consolidated power, particularly over cities, to lay right-wing, anti-union and environmentally-damaging damage on the public sector:
Leaving the state without a coherent coordinated strategy so the virus can have an easier time moving from community to community.
It was a load of crap. They just walked away from the table and told other government officials in hundreds of cities, villages, towns and counties to go figure it out for themselves.
So they monkey-wrenched Evers' leadership with the assistance of the right-wing State Supreme Court, washed their hands of any planning, and can point fingers at local officialsif when the virus runs wild, local budgets collapse, and municipal layoffs explode.
In other words, the legislators just unloaded responsibility on to the locals - an unprecedented unfunded mandate with service obligations and lives in the balance.
Does Vos get to get away with saying this?
Republicans running the WI Legislature on behalf of Scott Walker and his donors spent years stripping municipalities of local controls as they slashed funding and consolidated power, particularly over cities, to lay right-wing, anti-union and environmentally-damaging damage on the public sector:
For nearly a decade, the Legislature rocketed through one far-right piece of legislation after another. Those bills then hit the desk of Gov. Scott Walker, who happily signed almost every bill into law....
From 2011 to April 2018, Republicans passed 180 different measures that either limited local control or acted as an unfunded mandate on local governments.But now that the state is facing an unprecedented public health and fiscal emergency with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, these same GOP legislators have decided this is precisely the best time to cut Democratic Gov. Evers and the state resources he manages out of the logical and statutory role he was playing and let all the local governments do their own thing.
Leaving the state without a coherent coordinated strategy so the virus can have an easier time moving from community to community.
Top GOP lawmakers now want to leave virus plan in the hands of local officialsRemember that the GOP legislators kept telling everyone and their pawns at the State Supreme Court all these deeply-concerned GOP legislators wanted was a planning seat at the table.
It was a load of crap. They just walked away from the table and told other government officials in hundreds of cities, villages, towns and counties to go figure it out for themselves.
So they monkey-wrenched Evers' leadership with the assistance of the right-wing State Supreme Court, washed their hands of any planning, and can point fingers at local officials
In other words, the legislators just unloaded responsibility on to the locals - an unprecedented unfunded mandate with service obligations and lives in the balance.
Does Vos get to get away with saying this?
"As a Republican, I believe in local control," he said Thursday.
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