{"id":5159,"date":"2021-05-10T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2021-05-10T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:47:57","slug":"its-not-just-georgia-more-than-a-dozen-other-states-are-trying-to-take-power-away-from-local-election-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5159","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Just Georgia: More Than A Dozen Other States Are Trying To Take Power Away From Local Election Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Most of these bills are not as aggressive as Georgia\u2019s, but they all undermine localities\u2019 ability to self-rule. In this way, Illinois State University political scientist\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pol.illinoisstate.edu\/faculty\/profile.php?ulid=lrivers\" target=\"_blank\">Lori Riverstone-Newell<\/a>\u00a0told FiveThirtyEight, they\u2019re part of an increasing trend of states preempting local government in order to retain power for themselves: Conservative legislatures, in particular, have passed several laws in recent years\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/publius\/article-abstract\/47\/3\/403\/3852645?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">that limit the types of laws municipalities can pass<\/a>, including sanctuary-city protections, anti-LGBT discrimination ordinances and minimum-wage increases (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/preemption-in-the-south\/\" target=\"_blank\">especially in the South<\/a>). These laws can often have what Riverstone-Newell calls a \u201cchilling effect,\u201d where the mere\u00a0<em>threat<\/em>\u00a0of having their power taken away makes local officials afraid to govern as they see fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/its-not-just-georgia-more-than-a-dozen-other-states-are-trying-to-take-power-away-from-local-election-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/its-not-just-georgia-more-than-a-dozen-other-states-are-trying-to-take-power-away-from-local-election-officials\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Most of these bills are not as aggressive as Georgia\u2019s, but they all undermine localities\u2019 ability to self-rule. In this way, Illinois State University political scientist Lori Riverstone-Newell told FiveThirtyEight, they\u2019re part of an increasing trend of states preempting local government in order to retain power for themselves: Conservative legislatures, in particular, have passed several laws in recent years that limit the types of laws municipalities can pass, including sanctuary-city protections, anti-LGBT discrimination ordinances and minimum-wage increases (especially in the South). These laws can often have what Riverstone-Newell calls a \u201cchilling effect,\u201d where the mere threat of having their power taken away makes local officials afraid to govern as they see fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[961,815,694,1053,759],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cities","tag-georgia","tag-power","tag-state-legislatures","tag-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}