There’s one man in Virginia who might be able to eliminate Dillon’s Rule and turn Virginia into a home-rule state: Richmond mayor Douglas Wilder.
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There’s one man in Virginia who might be able to eliminate Dillon’s Rule and turn Virginia into a home-rule state: Richmond mayor Douglas Wilder.
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The day Dillon’s Rule is removed is the day Virginia localities begin to act as the incubators for smart solutions to Virginia’s problems.
It’s also the day when the right-wing will begin their attempt to completely erase common sense and enlightened thinking from Virginia’s localities.
I’m against Dillon’s Rule, but its removal will mean petitions, referendums and a rise in civic activism the likes of which we have not seen. Before anyone pushes for its removal, prepare to be in your City Council, School Board or Board of Supervisors meetings for the rest of your life.
It’ll be fun.
Several comments:
1) If if were not for the Dillon Rule, Arlington County taxpayers would be burdened with a tax burden not unlike that in Connecticut, New York or New Jersey.
2) What makes you think that converting Virginia to home rule would result in localities being “incubators for smart solutions?”
3) Arlington County circumvents the Dillon Rule, by the way, by having the General Assembly pass laws which state they are for “counties with a County Manager plan of government.” I imagine that other locaties circumvent Dillon through similar legislative chicanery.
4) If the hope that by removing the Dillon Rule, there will be an increase in civic activism?