You don’t like redevelopment. That’s fine. But, don’t carry that message under the limited government banner. These bills don’t limit government. They just shift money/government from local control to State control.

Here’s a better cause than your Big Government “reform”— keep redevelopment in place to give incentives to attract business (its the only incentive we have in this state), but return 1/2 of the tax increment to taxpayers in the form of a property tax cut. Make taxpayers partners with redevelopment. Then, eliminate every agency of the State that’s not required by the constitution and eliminate the income tax to be reinstituted only if approved by voters as part of a plan to reconstruct State government from scratch. Start all over.

You Big Government types would hate that idea. You’d rather feather the nest of State labor unions by taking money from localities. The only watchdog you serve is for the State labor unions.

This is incorrect. He has not yet taken action on this measure. Only the budget has been vetoed so far.