OPINION: 'Given the raw acrimony of our tribal politics these days, it is no surprise that lawmakers are ready to use a blunt club to beat back any local government that offends their populist sensibilities,' writes Tucsonan William Schmidt.
For decades, conservatives in the West had a reliable enemy. It was Washington, deeply resented for its sometimes aloof and distant management of the region’s public lands and natural resources. Washington, they said, did not listen to locally elected representatives, or heed the voice of those closest to the ground.
People are also reading… It is not the first time Republicans have used their majority in the state capital to push back against local rules and policies they see as left-leaning. As our politics have become more polarized, the Legislature has routinely “weaponized” — to borrow a term so popular these days in Washington — its authority to squash anything that doesn’t align with their orthodoxies or disadvantages their politics.
Even puppies are not beyond their reach. Arizona is one of a few states that denies local government the ability to regulate local pet shops that sell dogs imported from out-of-state puppy mills, despite warnings from national animal welfare groups. Washington was too unaccountable, too far away to understand what people need. Let those who live in the communities — and their elected officials — figure out what they want. As one Western governor said at the time, we don’t need Washington to fix our potholes.
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