Our elected representatives wisely enacted laws to protect our state and local governments from undue outside influence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
I believe in enforcing the laws as written by the Legislature, as signed by the governor.
The accountability of state legislators is so much more than federal legislators.
As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.
So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
What I have come to realize over the twenty years when I have worked in different roles as a legislator is that no legislation is as good as the enforcement of it.
Our founders insisted that protecting the states' power to govern themselves was vital to limit the power of Washington and preserve freedom.
Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.
Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.