SACRAMENTO – Today, Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher (Yuba City) issued the following statement on the Assembly’s passage of a series of bills to address the fentanyl crisis: “Today was a step in the right direction that would not have happened without Republicans, victims’ families and law enforcement demanding action.…
SACRAMENTO – At today’s joint hearing on the fentanyl crisis, Democrats doubled down on their stubborn refusal to hold fentanyl traffickers accountable. Despite calls from Republicans, law enforcement and family members of fentanyl victims for a comprehensive solution that addresses the epidemic from a public health AND public safety perspective, Democrat committee…
SACRAMENTO – To mark today’s joint hearing on the fentanyl crisis (at which no action will be taken or bills heard), Assembly Republicans are unveiling an online tracker to estimate how many Californians have been killed by fentanyl since the beginning of the year. So far in 2023, nearly 2,300 Californians have lost…
The fentanyl crisis is about public health & public safety, but Democrats ignore half the problem (Hint: it’s not public health). Over the weekend, the Modesto Bee slammed Democrats in an editorial for their continued inaction on the fentanyl epidemic. The editorial called out “Democratic legislators committed to progressivism [who]…
Less than a day before their big hearing, Democrats still won’t say what they plan on talking about. Assembly Democrats have promised that a joint hearing of three committees would bring people together to find public health AND public safety solutions to the fentanyl crisis. Is that actually going to happen? We…