re: Youngkin: I won't stop local governments that want to impose COVID mandates

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Businesses are one thing. The local governments are another.

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Why? Governing at the most local level possible is not a bad thing. If Fairfax and Alexandria's local governments enact mandates because their constituents want them, why should Richmond stop them?

The citizens in those places want the mandates their local governments enact.

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Youngkin: I won't stop local governments that want to impose COVID mandates

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Don't really have an argument against this. Let those communities sort it themselves.

And let them get their asses handed to them in court.

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What if the local citizens decide guns are icky or that a baker must bake that cake?

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Then an impacted person in that jurisdiction (or business) will go to the federal courts with a 1983 action and get an injunction or the law struck down.

It isn't like Youngkin can get a law through the VA legislature banning mandates like other, redder states have...even if he wanted to.

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Then an impacted person in that jurisdiction (or business) will go to the federal courts

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Is that governing at the lowest level?

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That ship has sailed.


If you are not willing to take control you have already lost.

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never call yourself a small government advocate, if you really ever believed in small government

The power dynamic ideally should be local government > state government > federal government but we do exactly the opposite in this country

Private business should be allowed to mandate whatever they want. If you don’t like it, take your business elsewhere. The government shouldn’t be telling the private sector what to do. But if private businesses have received governmental assistant, they are fair game.

Now if public offices are mandating such, that’s a totally different story.

Meanwhile...

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Congressman Byron Donalds
@RepDonaldsPress

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

Today, America's Governor, @GovRonDeSantis, traveled to Brandon, Florida, and officially signed into law four pieces of legislation protecting Floridians from JB's illegal vaccine mandate.

DONT TREAD ON FLORIDA!

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There are a couple of distinct differences between Florida and Virginia. In Florida, Desantis pretty much has unobstructed path to carrying out his agenda, as both the legislature and state supreme court are rather solidly in his corner in terms of those Republican majorities. On the other hand, the Republican majority legislature and supposed "Republican" majority state supreme court in Virginia are more inclined to be haters with the pushback, particularly in terms of a Desantis type agenda.

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That is the lowest level government possible under those circumstance.

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Unless the governor could accomplish the exact same result.

There’s nuance to this and there are valid points on both sides. I think the “if you want the governor to do this you don’t believe in small government” claim is specious and lazy, as would be the opposite claim of “if you don’t want him to do this you’re a pussy who doesn’t want to fight back”.