C onservative dogma once taught that local government reigned supreme. Those closest to constituents were best equipped to govern them, the argument went. Today, however, Republicans espouse a Goldilocks principle of government, says Bennett Sandlin, the head of the Texas Municipal League, an advocacy group. “The federal government is big and bad, cities are small and bad, and somehow state government gets it just right.”
c守流的教条曾经教过当地政府统治至高无上。争论提出了最接近选民的能力。倡导组织得克萨斯州市政联盟负责人贝内特·桑德林（Bennett Sandlin）说，今天，共和党人拥护政府的金色原则。“联邦政府大而糟糕，城市小而糟糕，州政府以某种方式正确地说。”
