Federal Creep - Battle Over Bulbs Brewing
Reps. Dean Urdahl & Tom Emmer (Republican candidate for Governor) are pushing for a law that would give Minnesotans the right to choose their lightbulbs. Give is not the right way to put it, it is more like preventing the Federal Government from taking that right away.
State Rep. Dean Urdahl has a message for the federal government: Keep your laws off my light bulbs.
The retired teacher from Grove City -- along with state Rep. Tom Emmer, a Republican candidate for governor -- has drawn a new weapon in the battle to beat back the hand of the federal government: incandescent light bulbs, the kind that have been around for a century.
A handful of GOP lawmakers have launched a legislative crusade to let Minnesotans keep buying conventional light bulbs after the federal government orders lights-out on selling old bulbs in 2014. The backers have re-ignited a long-simmering debate about the environmental merits of energy-efficient bulbs while at the same time putting Minnesota, along with a growing list of other states, headlong into a states' rights showdown with Washington.
The heavily GOP supported Federal law that set this ball in motion is a great example of where pretending to be green when it was popular is a sign of willing to do anything to remain in office by unprincipled politicians. But I am sure those who voted for it said, "it was a good bill" and they urged others to vote for it too.
Those are the kind of politicians I call Lunacrats. They staked their political careers on lunacy. Hence, they are Lunacrats.
Crossposted at Residual Forces
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