Congressman Donovan’s Family Has Been Dealing with Heroin. WHY HASN’T HE DONE MORE TO FIGHT HEROIN?
Today Dan Donovan said this: “Like so many families in our community, mine has also been dealing with a loved one’s addiction,” said Donovan. (Source)
In December 2015, there was an issue involving the police – see here. Someone reported the situation to the Office of Congressional Ethics because Donovan may have intervened at the police station (see story). Donovan denies interfering and stated: “I sincerely hope that the Office of Congressional Ethics contacts and interviews this person about his or her evidence, including whether they’ve been coaxed or coached and that it’s made public.” (Source) The man mentioned in the story denied any drug use. (Source)
Anna Sanders wrote this article:
In October 2016, ten months after the above situation, Staten Island had a particularly harsh week as 9 people died in 10 days from heroin overdoses. Donovan shared about an employee in an article, but he did not say his family was dealing with opioid issues. It was easy for Donovan to remain removed from the problem and say: “Every life lost to the drug epidemic is heartbreaking,” NO – it is not okay to throw out rhetoric when Donovan had the ability to make stronger laws against dealers. Why did it take Dan two years to say: “Like so many families in our community, mine has also been dealing with a loved one’s addiction,” said Donovan. (Source)
In January 2018, even Newsweek reported about Senator Marty Golden blunder, “Opiods aren’t a ghetto drug.” Why did Dan Donovan stay silent?
Today, April 1st, Congressman Donovan ran to the Staten Island Advance to publish his statement of innocence (by the way – it’s Easter Sunday today). For the next few days, Donovan will be on the news or sending out press releases to papers. Why isn’t Dan Donovan as motivated to DO SOMETHING about the drug problem in Staten Island?
In August 2017, there were twenty-nine overdoses in 24 days in Staten Island. Did Dan Donovan declare a state of emergency in Staten Island. Nope. Donovan has done hardly anything to fight the problem of heroin in Staten Island.
Donovan needs to get out of office and and allow Staten Island to have a chance under someone who can take on the heroin problem as a lawmaker!
If we had a congressman who was task-oriented and strengthened the law to go after drug dealers, would Staten Island be in the same position it is in today?
Hugs,
marlene
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