legislature around governor supports the power of the local officials you elect? it s called preemption, and the fancy word for state takeover and it s a disturbing trend in many states. around the country, republican state lawmakers are passing legislation designed to rob democratic cities of their independent. black mayors. i recently visited columbus out aisle for the u.s. conference of mayors. and there are out onslaught of red state after the takeover blew. cities st. louis and mayor chokwe antar lumumba of jackson city, other cities have dealt with intrusive state legislation. mira loma describes the phenomenon of preemption and take a listen. as autocratic governance and
gun safety laws. it s about power and control. near lucas, i heard you talking about the number of occasions, you talked about when it comes to gun laila s this is where the issue of preemption comes up? most yes, you re right. it s state takeover, state control. that simple. jonathan illegal term to say preemption, it state takeover. where there can be local solutions. unkind violence is probably in some ways the most dramatic place. we see what this intervention means honestly ups and my state we had this bill, the preservation act unfortunately federal judge struck it down for now. it gets appealed all the money to the supreme court. under that they were trying to eliminate, eliminate cooperation between our local police, the police made claim to support. the ability of those atf, fbi on things like illegal gun trafficking, in our community. and at a time when we re seeing