{"id":122024,"date":"2023-11-29T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=122024"},"modified":"2023-11-29T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:49:32","slug":"antagonisms-flare-as-red-states-try-to-dictate-how-blue-cities-are-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=122024","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Antagonisms flare as red states try to dictate how blue cities are run&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/11\/27\/red-states-blue-cities-preemption-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Despite long advocating small government and local control, Republican governors and legislators across a significant swath of the country are increasingly overriding the actions of Democratic cities \u2014 removing elected district attorneys or threatening to strip them of power, taking over election offices and otherwise limiting local independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">State lawmakers proposed nearly 700 bills this year to circumscribe what cities and counties can do, according to Katie Belanger, lead consultant for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportdemocracy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Local Solutions Support Center<\/a>, a national organization focused in part on ending the overreach it calls \u201cabusive state preemption.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The group\u2019s tracking mostly found \u201cconservative state legislatures responding to or anticipating actions of progressive cities,\u201d she said, with many bills designed to bolster state restrictions on police defunding,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/abortion\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abortion<\/a>, and LGBTQ and voting rights. As of mid-October, at least 92 had passed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Despite long advocating small government and local control, Republican governors and legislators across a significant swath of the country are increasingly overriding the actions of Democratic cities \u2014 removing elected district attorneys or threatening to strip them of power, taking over election offices and otherwise limiting local independence. State lawmakers proposed nearly 700 bills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122025,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122024\/revisions\/122025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}