We hope they would. I retreated from partisan politics by being a cities guy for the rest of my career. Around the world, cities are leading a lot of the innovation in a lot of these close-to-ground technology areas. My hope—our hope, the board's hope—is that there will be enough room in whatever federal legislation, new standards or even guidelines might be created to say, here are the broad ground rules but there's some room for local governments, in the spirit of federalism, to make their own decisions about what's within their value set in that purview.
On April 9th, 2019. See this statement in context.