[who_would_fardels_bear]

This is why Big Business has never been a friend of conservatives.

This is why I look back at my years as a mindless Big Business cheerleader with embarrassment.

[kingu]

So, what would be the contrary interest here? That conservatives should encourage local bag bans or forced paid sick leave or minimum wages or giving in to some strange ‘GMO bad’ seed ban?

None of the issues presented in the story seem to be anything beyond local liberal agenda being enacted and then thwarted by conservative state legislatures.