ICYMI: Caraveo “Rushes to Clean Up Fentanyl Issue She Created”
Extreme Democrat Yadira Caraveo has been caught red-handed trying to back-pedal on the Colorado fentanyl crisis that she caused back in 2019. After years of Caraveo’s fentanyl crisis, it’s no wonder CO-08 is ready for change and ready for Gabe Evans, who has first-hand experience as a police officer fighting her fentanyl crisis.
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Democrat Rushes to Clean Up Fentanyl Issue She Created Just Months Before the Election
Townhall
August 24, 2024
With less than three months until the 2024 November election, Democrats rush to clean up the damage they created before voters line up at the ballot box.
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Democrat Yadira Caraveo (CO-08) is quietly attempting to clean up her district’s ongoing fentanyl problem, in which she ultimately created by co-sponsoring and voting for HB19-1263, legislation to de-felonize single-use drug possession for drugs such as fentanyl, even if the individual possessed enough fentanyl to kill thousands of people.
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HB22-1326 was proposed to increase penalties for the possession, manufacturing, and distribution of substances such as fentanyl. However, the National Republican Congressional Committee pointed out that the issue with this bill is that it only targets deaths associated with fentanyl overdoses and does nothing to address the trajectory of fentanyl-related deaths in the state.
In 2023, the Colorado Springs Gazette found that the legislation and the rising number of fentanyl overdoses can be chalked up to “increasingly permissive drug laws — foremost, the devastating decriminalization of hard drugs by the Colorado Legislature in 2019.”
Gabe Evans, the Republican running against Caraveo, witnessed firsthand the effects of his Democrat opponent’s progressive policies on the community.
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