Why Do Texas Government Have Local Control To Local Government

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Nabin Raj Bista Prof. Sharifian Government 2306 2 May 2017 Local Control in Texas Texas is a state with bicameral legislature body. Here, in legislature each and every executive heads are superior and some are elected directly by people while some are appointed by governor. State government has a control over the local. Politicians at state level make rules and regulations that are implemented at local level. Therefore, it would not be wrong to say that state government has a direct control over the local control. Local government handle issue at local level that may affect the life of the people directly. Some of those issues are texting-while driving ban, bag bans, red-light and many others. Although city have a mayor and their own

Kaibawhite also wrote that the amount of money Texas representatives and Texas senators receive form those oil and gas company are in millions. Although people elect those political representatives so that they can do better for the people and state but what they do is completely opposite. Rather than standing for the people they stand with and for the investors that help them during their campaign contributions. It can be seen in this issue where “Texas legislature is tearing apart local control to protect oil and gas interests instead of public health and safety” (Kaibawhite, 2015) Some of the politicians think that it is best to have local control to local government rather than state government because of the “idea that the government closest to the people governs the best” (Rinaldi, 2015). There are still some politicians who are in support that the local government should have more local control. 2 There are still bans like bag bans, fracking bans, tree-cutting bans that are being implemented at the city level by local government. 3 The important of local control is obvious. 4 According to President Ronald Reagan “”government is best which remains

7 Some of those are fracking, sanctuary cities, non-discrimination ordinances, zoning, red-light cameras, plastic bags and many more. Regarding plastic ban “Ranchers city officials testified against bill that would prevent cities from banning plastic grocery bags or charging a fee from them” (Mansoor, 2017). According to article by Sanya Mansoor Texas Senate’s Business and Commerce Committee aimed at cracking down on the growing number of plastic bag bans around the cities of Texas State. Here state legislature are trying to go against the policy that local government have made for their city. “Bennett Sandlin, executive director of the Texas Municipal League, told the committee that cities pass bag bans for a variety of reasons from agriculture to environmental” (Mansoor, 2017). Although this issues is affecting environment and people around it, many cities are unable to implement bag ban. While state legislature are trying to ban bag state wide. Therefore, in some issues state legislature have strong hold against the policy and ban. But, it would be best if local government have strong control over those issues at local