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.”
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...
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.
I would love to see Abbot and the legislature give the Marxists on the Austin city council a thorough public bitchslapping.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Exactly. The enviro-wackos will not stop there. What about all the plastic containers, produce bags, butcher paper, small containers for sauces, etc?
They need to pass a law to send the mayor of Houston on a long trip to the Middle East.
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.
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.
This has been predicted for a long time, Perry invited it.
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?
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.
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!
>> 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!
Yup. It always starts with big-city rot!
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