GOP Candidate Stunningly Admits His Part In The Opioid Crisis

The Minnesota gubernatorial debate got interesting when incumbent Tim Walz called out challenger Scott Jensen for prescribing opioids more than 94% of his peers when he was a practicing doctor. Jensen admitted that Walz was correct on the facts but also that the real threat of opioids was of them coming over the border from Mexico.

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Let's go right to a debate that's taking place in Minnesota. You know we just spent the other day talking about Minnesota nice. And I guess this was a nice way for governor Tim Waltz of Minnesota to remind Minnesotans that the Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen was, I don't know, is it fair to call him a pill Mill. Yes, I think in the top 94 percentile as Wallace points out in the state. Well, that's pretty up there. yeah, I'd be happy about that if that was my but it's not like but it's not exactly. But it's not like you know he was dispensing these pills because he was being wined and dined by a pharmaceutical ex. Oh. Well, let's tune into this. Many of our viewers have reached out about the ongoing opioid crisis affecting communities. According to the Minnesota Department of Health, nearly 1300 people in this state died last year from an overdose. that is up 20 percent from 2020. Now rainbow fentanyl pills looking like candy have reached Minnesota. Authorities first found the brightly colored fentanyl which could appeal to kids in Mankato last month. As Governor What specifically would you do to address this ongoing crisis and save lives? the question going to Governor walls first? Yeah the opioid crisis and it is it it continues to accelerate. We've seen this in Minnesota. It even disproportionately hits our communities of color, basically our indigenous communities. certainly the idea of stopping them at the border but there are a lot of things that we can do on the front end. making sure that we're stopping that demand. making sure that we have the current services available. I want to say one thing I'm really proud of in Minnesota Minnesota is one of the states that sued the manufacturers who were making this. This opioid epidemic started and some of you have seen the shows you've seen the documentaries that have been done on this. that they started pushing these things for profit and ended up reading into our communities. That's where most of this has come from. and I have to say I want to be very clear about this. They didn't do it alone. When Scott was issuing opioid prescriptions he issued more than 94 percent of his peers. He did that at the same time while accepting meals from the manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies.