January 24, 2008

Rep. Cruz Wants You To Get AIDS And Die

State Rep. Angel Cruz, who has passed much important legislation like a bill urging major league baseball to retire Roberto Clemente's number, now hopes you get AIDS and die.

It's a strong position for a politician to take, but what else is he going to do? There are needles on the ground! Cruz claims his constituents are clamoring for the removal of life-saving needle-exchange programs because there are needles all over the city. While nobody wants needles on the ground, it's always odd the reaction to this is to shut down the program instead of making sure needles don't get on the ground.

And so, despite needle-exchange programs preventing new cases of HIV and Hepatitis C (and therefore saving money) and, ahem, students studies showing they do not increase drug use, Cruz' bill would prevent needle-exchange sites from within 500 feet of schools and residences. This means you could pretty much put the needle-exchange sites only next to the casinos. Oh, and the law wouldn't grandfather in old sites, so they'd have to move.

The Public Record, a newspaper so bad it's even off my radar, writes "The needle exchange receives over $375,000 from the City yearly... it hasn't work." Three-hundred seventy-five grand? That's it? That's less than the city pays for someone to wipe Bob Brady's ass.

Anyway, Cruz is doing this for some Republican ward leader. It's nice to see that in an age of partisanship, Republicans and Democrats can work together to give people AIDS.

Posted by D-Mac on January 24, 2008 03:25 PM
Posted to Angel Cruz , Drug Prohibition , Needle-Exchange Programs , State House , WTF

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