What if instead of preempting cities, states helped get federal funding for economic recovery, infrastructure, innovation and health care.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shakes hands with a supporter as he arrives to speak during an election night campaign event, Nov. 8, 2022, in McAllen, Texas.Watching Texas Republicans in action as the legislative session comes to a close brings to mind aor, as a Texan with a yen for the vernacular might translate , “You show me some ol’ boy that’ll take a Bowie knife to his own schnoz just to get back at somebody he don’t cotton to, and I’ll show you a gol-durn fool.
The governor added that his blanket-preemption approach — our description, not his —"makes it more simple, more elegant, but more importantly, provides greater advance notice to businesses and to individuals that you’re going to have the certainty to run your lives." “We want those small-business owners creating new jobs and providing for their families, not trying to navigate a Byzantine array of local regulations that twist and turn every time” they cross city limits, said the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock.
A second, broader problem is this: What Abbott and friends are doing with their preemption push is part of an insidious nationwide effort on the part of the GOP to hobble metropolitan areas that are more diverse, more educated, more prosperous, more dynamic and — most important to the Grand Old Party — bluer than the preponderantly white, blue-collar, mid-sized metro areas and small towns that have become the Republican base.
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