US Democracy - City mayor, "I want to give them free fentanyl"

From ABC7 news:
"LANCASTER, Calif. (KABC) -- Comments made by the Lancaster mayor at a
recent city meeting over the growing homeless crisis are sparking
controversy. He said he wants to give the homeless free fentanyl.
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"I mean, I thought people were intelligent enough to understand that it
was a metaphor," Parris said in an interview with Eyewitness News. "But
I don't regret saying it. It's brought attention to the problem.
Hard-working families cannot be safe as long as California continues to
empty their prisons and make these people homeless."
The city mayor is only a messenger. But he points out a problem more
than homelessness. Where is the "We the people?"