“There is no one better suited to make decisions for a community than the people elected from within that same community,” said Smit, who served as Martin Township Clerk for seven years. “Local control being stripped away was a perversion of the principles that make up local governments. Radical Democrats stripped a core function of local government and gifted it to a state board handcrafted by our left-wing governor. Republicans called foul then, and we’ve worked to reverse that abuse of legislative power ever since. The passage of these bills is a wonderful first step to restoring the local control that should’ve never been taken away in the first place.”
