With voting underway, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is pretending he never supported supervised drug infection sites — an idea so unpopular that Democrats bailed on legalizing it in Denver a couple years ago.
John Kellner, the Republican candidate running for attorney general, called out Weiser during the 9News debate for backing such a hair-brained idea:
.@pweiser used Colorado taxpayer dollars to support supervised drug injection sites in other states. That’s his record.
Besides @pettersen4co & @pweiser, no one in Colorado supports this asinine idea.
.@kellnerforco will fight fentanyl and drugs. Not promote them. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/USS0VoOdzt
— The Colorado GOP (@cologop) October 19, 2022
Weiser tried to weasel out of it by claiming he never supported the concept.
And yet:
That’s awkward. We’re not sure who to believe, Phil Weiser, or Phil Weiser?
PeakNation will recall that Wesier wasted your hard-earned taxpayer dollars by jumping into the middle of a Philadelphia lawsuit to Legalize Drug Dens.
The Democratic state legislature this year dropped the idea of legalizing drug dens for heroin and meth users after a public blowback.
But now, Colorado’s attorney general has decided our taxpayer dollars should be spent in a court battle to legalize public drug houses — in Philadelphia.
Phil Weiser filed friend of the court briefings along with Oregon, Michigan, D .C., Delaware, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Virginia this week in favor of the first non-profit injection site in the U.S.
And who was the Democrat lawmaker pushing the state law? None other than state Senator-turned-congressional-candidate Brittany Pettersen.