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Abbott says Texas is being ‘California-ized’
KXAN News ^ | 9 January, 2015 | Kevin Schwaller

Posted on 01/10/2015 6:53:39 AM PST by TADSLOS

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Governor-Elect Greg Abbott criticized city bans this week and said reducing “regulatory burdens” would make Texas a better state.

“The truth is Texas is being California-ized and you may not even be noticing it,” said Abbott as he spoke Thursday. “It’s being done at the city level with bag bans, fracking bans, tree cutting bans. We’re forming a patchwork quilt of bans and rules and regulations that is eroding the Texas model.”

If you live in Austin, you’ve likely had an experience with the plastic bag ban.

“I realized that something that I originally thought was a hassle is something that I now appreciate,” said Robert Schmidt, in support of the bag ban in Austin.

Other shoppers haven’t come around to the changes.

“I never know if my bags are in my truck or in my van,” said another shopper.

Texas has already seen attempts from the legislature to limit city rules. A bill failed last session known as the “Shopping Bag Freedom Act,” which aimed invalidate city bag bans. This year another bill would require certain city ballot measures to go in front of the attorney general before it could go to a vote.

The governor will have to use his influence to accomplish changes. Clinical Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs Sherri Greenberg says she believes Abbott has support — given the makeup of at the Capitol.

“The governor comes in in his new position. He’s in his honeymoon period,” said Greenberg. “He won overwhelmingly. He also has Republican control, all the statewide offices and the House and the Senate.”

Greenberg says the issue raised by Abbott is a continuation of a long-standing debate in Texas about local control and the amount of regulations in the state.

“[Unchecked over-regulation by cities] is contrary to my vision for Texas,” said Abbott. “My vision is one where individual liberties are not bound by city limit signs. I will insist on protecting unlimited liberty to ensure that Texas will continue to grow and prosper.”


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abbott; austin; liberals; texas
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Texas is being Kalifornicated.
1 posted on 01/10/2015 6:53:39 AM PST by TADSLOS
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To: TADSLOS

Friggin’ plastic bag bans... remind me again who the dumbasses were that demanded that we stop using paper bags in order to “save the Erf”? No one seems to mention that it was the libtards that pushed this transition to plastic bags in the first place...


2 posted on 01/10/2015 7:00:09 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Common Sense 101

the objection is not to paper bags or plastic bags, but to bags

The envirowacko terrorists want you to provide your own bags

What is needed is a serious curtailment of envirowackos.


3 posted on 01/10/2015 7:02:36 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: TADSLOS

I would love to see Abbot and the legislature give the Marxists on the Austin city council a thorough public bitchslapping.


4 posted on 01/10/2015 7:03:01 AM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: Common Sense 101

They want you to buy the reusable bags but that is IMHO gross. People bring those back repeatedly. They are dirty. Studies have shown that they carry bacteria. They probably also carry bugs since a lot of this population don’t believe in bug spray. (we don’t either but we believe in wolf spiders and never have any roaches). So just gross.


5 posted on 01/10/2015 7:03:54 AM PST by Mercat
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To: TADSLOS

You need to prevent the California and northeastern transplants from getting into local and state politics. They may have physically left their states but unfortunately they bring their stupid liberalism with them and once they get a foothold in the political process your state is f***ed.


6 posted on 01/10/2015 7:05:09 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: TADSLOS

“Texas is being Kalifornicated. “

Just as the b*stards did to Colorado.

Texans, kick the idiots out now.

We need you all for help in the upcoming revolution.


7 posted on 01/10/2015 7:05:19 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: TADSLOS

I live just outside of Austin and refuse to shop in Austin anymore. Austin has outlawed a great free market solution for a culturally Marxist one.


8 posted on 01/10/2015 7:12:55 AM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: lormand

Yep. I live in Georgetown. There really has to be a compelling reason for me to go to Austin for any reason. It is a liberal hellhole.


9 posted on 01/10/2015 7:16:16 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Common Sense 101

Exactly. The enviro-wackos will not stop there. What about all the plastic containers, produce bags, butcher paper, small containers for sauces, etc?


10 posted on 01/10/2015 7:18:47 AM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: TADSLOS

They need to pass a law to send the mayor of Houston on a long trip to the Middle East.


11 posted on 01/10/2015 7:19:23 AM PST by madprof98
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To: TADSLOS

Cedar Park here. With all the new shopping centers and restaurants here, most people in outlying areas like Lago Vista and Leander also stop short of Austin and shop in Cedar Park instead. Our roads can’t expand fast enough to accommodate all the increased traffic.


12 posted on 01/10/2015 7:22:06 AM PST by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: TADSLOS
Yep and Messy-canized as well.

I really despise liberals. Those who tout pro-choice on pot, abortion and so forth are the very ones who attempt to shape and control other folks behavior.

Austin was a pretty cool place many moons ago, but it's quickly becoming a liberal bastion.

13 posted on 01/10/2015 7:23:25 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: TADSLOS

This has been predicted for a long time, Perry invited it.


14 posted on 01/10/2015 7:23:27 AM PST by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: TADSLOS

So Greg Abbott is opposed to Washington telling him how to run Texas, but is more than willing to tell Austin how to run their city?


15 posted on 01/10/2015 7:23:49 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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They need to pass a law to send the mayor of Houston on a long trip to the Middle East.

Who knows,? You might be able to get a camel out of it!
16 posted on 01/10/2015 7:23:50 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Mercat

You pegged it Mercat! I have two of those “reusable” bags. I use them to carry documents or tools. I would never put food in them. No one washes these things, I sure don’t.

CDC records that parts of California with bag bans have higher incidence of salmonella, because the cloth bags are dirty.


17 posted on 01/10/2015 7:29:43 AM PST by Barkeep99
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To: Common Sense 101
Butter bad for ya...use margarine. Eggs...bad. Juice...bad.

Now the lil duckys and dolphins are being choked to death by those dumb @$$ plastic bags. Freakin hate’em.

I still ask for paper. Can't believe they still have’em in grocery stores. Sometimes I'll joke and say to them, “damn trees, they are always in the way, we must cut them down and make paper bags”.

I LOVE the look they give you when asking for paper. It's almost like the freeze up with this really dumb deer in the headlights look. For a brief period, you can see they are processing....paper? Do we even...what? I dunno? I'm fused!

18 posted on 01/10/2015 7:29:52 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: DoodleDawg

>> So Greg Abbott is opposed to Washington telling him how to run Texas, but is more than willing to tell Austin how to run their city?

Your premise is flawed. You assume that “state is to Fed as city is to state”.

That just ain’t so.

States’ rights are protected from the Fed by the US constitution. However city entities in Texas exist at the pleasure of the state. Texas cities have no inherent rights EXCEPT those granted by the state legislature.

So, yeah— go Abbot! Go legislature! Kick the crap out of gay old Austin! Grind them to powder under your cowboy boot!


19 posted on 01/10/2015 7:32:41 AM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: TADSLOS

Yup. It always starts with big-city rot!


20 posted on 01/10/2015 7:35:03 AM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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