Eva Young wrote: >Lisa McDonald is correct on this one. The City Council has enough on its >plate without micromanaging the legislature and federal government on >non-city related business. > >Except that it was Lisa Goodman, not MacDonald. I disagree. If a municipality can >make a cogent argument about how having any group included in hate crime legislation >will affect their work. It makes sense for them, as a group, to convey that >information to the House, the Senate, the prez, whoever. There are consequences >cities pay for federal mandates. Knowing already that the feds have screwed up on >many occasions in writing legislation that was either not funded, or not do-able as >written or both, the city needs to let them know that far in advance of signing the >legislation. States, counties and townships need to do the same thing. We have >representative government, but they cannot represent what they do not know. > WizardMarks, Central
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