Golden faces backlash as Democratic opponents help mount protest over “divisive” opioid comments
Politics and policy clashed as a group of protesters that included Democratic candidates for State Senate Ross Barkan and Andrew Gounardes rallied outside State Senator Marty Golden’s offices January 29 to denounce comments he made recently regarding the increasing rate of opioid addiction in New York.
The controversial remarks, which were made to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, were: “It’s not a ghetto drug. It’s happening to doctor’s kids.”
Besides Barkan and Gounardes, protesters who spoke represented the Working Families Party, the Alliance for Quality Education, the Drug Policy Alliance and Bay Ridge for Social Justice.