Two challengers to San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s reelection bid said they would declare a state of emergency to address the city’s fentanyl crisis and call in more National Guard troops to combat its out-of-control open-air drug dens if they won.
Mark Farrell, a venture capitalist who served as interim mayor of San Francisco for six months in 2018, said Thursday that he would also ask the state to dispatch military personnel for an indefinite period of time.
A man, suspected to be on drugs, is hunched over on the sidewalk in San Francisco. (Barnini Chakraborty/Washington Examiner)
“I will partner w/ state/fed leaders to declare a fentanyl state of emergency, request more armed CA National Guard, & implement a bold recovery plan to save lives & close open-air drug markets,” Farrell posted on
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