ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously though, this is the most leftist thing I've heard of a state government doing in a long time.
Do you mean authoritarian? If so there's plenty of competition - and not just from red states in the Bible Belt.
New York prohibits talking on your cellular telephone while driving.
A number of states have enacted draconian prohibitions on smoking in public places.
Some states ban the use or posession of speed radar detectors.
More states now have some sort of seat-belt law (so they can spend federal highway funds where they might do some good), and many states require helmets when you are riding a motorcycle.
I would aver that most of these laws were enacted with Republican support, if not Republican sponsorship.
Nannyism is not exclusively a Democrat disease.