Republicans preach all the time about “local control,” about how state and even local governments are better at everything because they listen to the needs of their people better, worry more about their constituents, and can be more easily replaced if they fuck up. So when you have situation where the state government deliberately put in place a system that neutralized the local government’s power and put contaminated water in the houses of over 100,000 folks, who does the GOP believe is responsible?

The EPA, a federal agency. Imagine that.

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