Apr 01 2008
Davis Stresses Home Rule
In a campaign kickoff speech Monday, state Senate District 46 candidate Tom Davis cast himself as a champion of home rule and his opponent, incumbent Sen. Catherine Ceips, as an accessory to its undoing.Home rule is the idea that local policy-making power should rest with locally elected governments rather than with state officials, a concept codified in state law through the Home Rule Act of 1975.
“This concept of home rule may seem abstract. It is not,” Davis said from his campaign headquarters on Boundary Street. Davis mentioned several bills from recent years that curbed powers reserved for school boards, county councils and municipal councils on matters dealing with zoning and tax collection.
I am a strong proponent of home rule. I am a firm believer that more power at the local level is the best way to go to preserve freedom. I have never been a fan of a top down style of government. I suppose that is the Federalist in me speaking.
