Republic of one: Hutchinson, Kansas, rejects 'treasonous' plan to preempt 'overreach'

Hutchinson, Kansas, City Council member Sara Bagwell is the latest public official to offer a goofball plan to oppose “overreach” by the state and federal governments.

Tuesday, Bagwell offered a resolution to the Hutchinson council declaring the community a “constitutional republic city.” The city of Hutchinson, she said, should refuse to enforce executive orders from Topeka or Washington that go too far.

“It is a resolution to stand by our citizens,” Bagwell told her four council colleagues, who seemed bewildered by the proposal.

Councilman Steven Garza asked for an example of an unacceptable order. “Well, state mandates, like mask mandates,” Bagwell replied. “Vaccine mandates that are coming down.”

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Hutchinson Mayor Jade Piros de Carvalho correctly called the resolution “an act of treason against the Constitution,” and it was voted down, quickly and easily, by a vote of 4-1.

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