You may recall that the reason given by Sun-King Sununu (a/k/a Governor Groomer) for his veto of a bill prohibiting school mask-mandates was “local control”:
In vetoing House Bill 1131, Sununu cited respect for local control.
“Just because we may not like a local decision, does not mean we should remove their authority,” he wrote in his veto message. “One of the state’s foremost responsibilities is to know the limits of its power.” He continued: “Big government is never the solution, and neither is a one-size-fits-all approach. The state must remain steadfast in protecting local control as decisions like this are best left to authorities closest to parents and families, where they can work with their neighbors to decide what is right for their children.”
Yet when it comes to so-called “workforce housing” (a lovely euphemism for apartment projects), a “local decision” that “we may not like” is not “local control” it is “local overregulation”:
To be fair and to be clear, the JB Center opposed local governmental mask-mandates (albeit … because the JB Center supports corporatism, not the free market … also opposing any governmental prohibition of business imposing masking and/or vaccine-mandates on their employees and customers). That is, it is Sun-King Sununu who is being the hypocrite.
More specifically, when it comes to whether to don a mask … which is a quintessentially personal decision … the Sun-King treats “local control” as sacrosanct. But when it comes to whether some slum-lord developer can destroy the character of a neighborhood by building scores of seedy apartment buildings … which affects the entire community, not just one individual … then we don’t hear a peep from the Sun-King about local control.
