The ACLU may have been part of it, but in NY State and probably elsewhere it was to balance the outrageous budget on the back of onetime capital selloff.
That nicely left the problem to the next set of election winners. Along with the retiree promises. Pass the cost forward into the future has always been their favorite trick.
I think we still have Kendra’s law, which expensively monitors medication, but the Dems would probably like to get rid of that too.
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