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You know, I’m not even mad. I’m envious. I’m envious at how Democrats do whatever it takes, whatever they want, how they truly give no fricks. Meanwhile, Republicans will wring their hands, insist “we don’t do things that way,” etc.

When are Republicans going to fight like Democrats? It’s like the Democrats are using the forward pass and it’s 200-0 and Republicans are insisting on handoffs up the middle because “that’s the way we do things.”

This times 1,000,000

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Posted by thingshavechanged

Member since May 2017

413 posts

Posted on 8/6/21 at 11:26 am to OMLandshark

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Honestly, this governor has really been overlooked. She may be the most dictatorial of all the governors, and that’s saying something. Only Whitmer can compare as far as being a dictator is concerned.

This is no different than then Republican Governor Snyder of Michigan taking over entire city governments under the Emergency Manager Laws.
There is no constitutional right to local self-government in the United States. In 1907, the Supreme Court decided, in Hunter v. Pittsburgh, that under the Constitution local governments are nothing more than “convenient agencies for exercising … such powers as may be entrusted to them” by the state. As a result, “the state may modify or withdraw all such power, may take without compensation such property, hold it for itself, or vest it with other agencies, expand or contract the territorial area, unite the whole or part of it with another municipality, repeal the charter and destroy the corporation … with or without the consent of the citizens, or even against their protest.”

I am relatively certain Governor Abbott of Texas will make a similar argument in the Court proceedings where Harris County is defying his anti-mask mandate.

You can be the goose; you can be the gander. You can't be both.

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Posted by CBDTiger

NOLA

Member since Mar 2004

1523 posts

Posted on 8/6/21 at 11:28 am to RogerTheShrubber

Here she is scolding the residents of Espanola (low rider capital of the world btw).

Ride that high horse

The mayor did not take kindly to her comments and wrote an op-ed calling her out:

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How empty those words sound coming from behind the windows of an air-conditioned vehicle while peering in at us like we are children who haven’t cleaned our rooms. Like so many others, the Governor has chosen to stroll by Española and make blanket assumptions about our people. To say that we have to work harder goes without saying. Every loss of life due to COVID-19 is tragic. We must do everything we can to prevent it.

Using anecdotal evidence to say that “no one was wearing masks” and conclude that we’re careless tells a story clouded by prejudice and falsehood. The Governor chose to make assumptions about the true Española at a superficial glance. Yes, people were witnessed going to their vehicles from the grocery store and gas station without masks. But no mention was made of whether they had them on within a close distance to others. Or whether the stores required masks. Those observations would actually require someone to step out of their vehicle and into our friendly town.

Espanola Mayor: We deserve better

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Posted by Little Trump

Florida

Member since Nov 2017

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Posted on 8/6/21 at 12:33 pm to LuckyTiger

Governor probably has no standing to fire that board

Stand up to the Governor and say no to the bitch

She won’t know what to do then

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Posted by Little Trump

Florida

Member since Nov 2017

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Posted on 8/6/21 at 12:35 pm to Y.A. Tittle

It’s just simple depopulation is all

Look at it all that way and all makes sense

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Posted by thingshavechanged

Member since May 2017

413 posts

Posted on 8/6/21 at 1:28 pm to LuckyTiger

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Governor dissolves entire school board, effective immediately.

1. The action was taken by the State Public Education Department;
2. The local board was suspended; not disbanded.

Other than that--spot on reporting!