They killed the bill because money had something to do with it. Follow the money.

@josiahbirthright24

Ай бұрын

It's really fishy. Time and I again I see Cal politicians voting not to prosecute drug dealers or even hold them accountable. I avoid conspiracy theories like the plague that they are...but something is going on here.

@TheOfficialPatriarchy

Ай бұрын

Most of this illegal fentanyl is being made in China and smuggled over the Southern border by the Mexican Sinaloa cartel. The politicians do not want to deal with this issue because it means A. securing the border and B. punishing China, which is a complicated proposition after the politicians themselves paved the way for the corporate sector to send all our living wage manufacturing jobs there.

@MMABeijing

Ай бұрын

Nothing to do with money. Fentanyl sole goal is destruction. They follow the order of overlords who are not focused on money, but are focused on dissolving the west into one easily managed federation

@NuncNuncNuncNunc

Ай бұрын

I think you are right. The 2024 bill would have required drug treatment.

@brotherbruns2989

Ай бұрын

The California Legislature suspends bills that cost $50,000 plus and most often puts them to rest in favor of the donor class that feed their coffers.

Politicians don't care about anything beyond their own wealth and ability to control. Politicians don't consider voters to be human beings.

@snarkdragon

Ай бұрын

And as a result, I don't generally consider most politicians to be human.

@veramae4098

Ай бұрын

So how big a bribe did fentanyl dealers pay her to walk out, pay others to not vote? Yes, I expect the worst.

@danielmartin7838

29 күн бұрын

There are elected officials whose actions seem to reveal an agenda of destruction born of hate for our country at work against us in the halls of power. They don’t fear us anymore as Americans. Their disdainful rhetoric, inaction or contradicting behavior when it comes to the well-being of common people reveal this

@joelbusald6416

29 күн бұрын

They consider voters to be mindless dupes

@sjb3460

19 күн бұрын

true

Watch for legislation to finally put some limits on AI ---- like using it on government.

@cassandra9699

Ай бұрын

Absolutely. We don't need every Fran and Ollie on the internet bothering our lawmakers every single day with their failures as adults and parents.

@justsomeguy9555

Ай бұрын

@@cassandra9699 You deserve to have your illusions shattered.

@RedNymph234

Ай бұрын

​@@cassandra9699Have some empathy. Empathy evolved in humans to literally keep us alive, to form community and work together. An insufferable @sshole is an evolutionary dead end. Don't be an @sshole

@branevans3705

Ай бұрын

@@cassandra9699omg! You are a boomer troll! That's hilarious. "Fran and Ollie?" You should go back to troll training 101!

@branevans3705

Ай бұрын

@@cassandra9699And while you're commenting on "failures," let's not forget who's the one trolling grieving moms 😂

Every state needs this!

No vote. You should be removed from the office.

@danielmartin7838

29 күн бұрын

It’s an attempt to slyly vote no. They want this, they hate our people and our country

@MonkeyMind69

27 күн бұрын

They should be able to abstain from a vote with reasonable cause. For instance, there may be part of a bill that they find objectionable, but the rest of the bill is satisfactory. In this case they don't want the bill to be shut down entirely, but seek revisions before putting it to another vote.

Lol, people need to stop calling every computer program AI.

@RedNymph234

Ай бұрын

The new buzz word as a marketing tool

@damm41

Ай бұрын

Yep I agree. Based on the description it looks like a standard web application with the potential to do a LOT of good.

@yaltschuler

Ай бұрын

This is machine learning/AI tho. It's facial recognition.

@aes0p895

Ай бұрын

​​@@yaltschulerI watched it again just in case I missed anything, and the only thing that even suggests AI is where they're talking about a person's reflection walking out. And I can tell you with 100% certainly there was no AI involved there. Also this whole thing makes no sense. Why would we need video of whether someone voted when you can just look at the actual vote tallies? It's right there in the public record.

@throckwoddle

Ай бұрын

@@aes0p895 You go to the website mentioned in the piece and they specifically mention AI tools. If you go to their "Data sources & methodology" page they specifically say what kinds of AI tools they use for what purposes.

Those politicians are undoubtably profiting from this tragedy.

@NuncNuncNuncNunc

Ай бұрын

Did you even bother reading the bill? It's toothless grandstaning whose sole purpose was to give those convicted on fentanyl related charges be given a stern talking to. No actual criminal laws were changed.

@danielmartin7838

29 күн бұрын

Wahab is Afghan…that should explain her actions attitude.

There should be a law that states; if you are a legislator, you are required to record your vote for all to see!! We should sue all lawmakers, for dereliction of duty, who abstain from voting. They were hired to vote on bills.

@evilsharkey8954

Ай бұрын

It is recorded. You just need to know how to find it

@alexandersheridan2179

27 күн бұрын

​@@evilsharkey8954 I don't think it is. This is something that a lot of people have begun talking about since Majorie Taylor Greene made a big scene in Congress, because so many Representatives were completely abstaining from voting by just not showing up. Then they can't be held accountable for the terrible bill being passed, nor do they have to stand up to the criminals who are abusing the system and citizens. Oh, and I just think she was the one who woke a lot of people up, about this, but it really seems that the majority of both parties are involved or complicit.

@SeanPat1001

19 күн бұрын

It’s not necessary to sue legislators. Just follow their voting record and if you don’t like it, vote against them at the next election.

@lauriesica

19 күн бұрын

@@SeanPat1001 I believe you misunderstood my statement. Legislators should NOT be allowed to ABSTAIN from voting on any and every bill presented. One person should not be allowed to block a bill from a vote.

@SeanPat1001

19 күн бұрын

Your argument is with Roberts Rules of Order. This is the standard of legislative bodies used at all levels all over the world. There is nothing wrong with abstaining.

Can we also stop paying them based on their attendance and voting records...

@danielmartin7838

29 күн бұрын

We need checks to prevent those who despise America and it’s people from ever being elected

Those lawmakers, will simply try and pass a bill, prohibiting the dissemination of this information…they will find some loophole, like privacy rights, first amendment, I don’t know…something…they are really bad people, and they deserve to pay the consequences for their indifference. We need to really be working on limiting the benefits they receive after leaving office!!!

@tomogden2432

Ай бұрын

"Those lawmakers, will simply try and pass a bill, prohibiting the dissemination of this information..." California's pubic records laws won't let them, but I'm sure they'll do their best to change that.

@Authenticwings

Ай бұрын

@@tomogden2432I really hope you are right about this…but these damn politicians, sure don’t want anyone to know what’s going on in there!!!

@hanovergreen4091

Ай бұрын

Look at that Gov of Arkansas who hides her info. Same with #DeSatan. The Re*ch Wing are the ones doing this. Not the good Progressives.

Those legislators need to be approached and asked why they didn't vote. If they decline to talk with anyone, vote them out in the next election. That is ridiculous!!

I wonder if This Digital Democracy app will roll out to other states

@karensprings4237

Ай бұрын

That would be a game changer for certain!

@jimlipscomb3236

Ай бұрын

I definitely want it here!

@NuncNuncNuncNunc

Ай бұрын

If only there were a journalist who could have reported on that.

What a great tool from Calmatters and Cal Poly! It's about time we little people can see what is going on in Sacto.

@tomogden2432

Ай бұрын

Every state in the US needs this, and D.C. needs it even more.

@jr2904

Ай бұрын

It's been right in front of your face for years, it doesn't take an app. I heard about this from talk radio in LA

We need Digital Democracy in Texas. We need it DESPERATELY.

Outlaw lobbyists

@SoloPilot6

27 күн бұрын

Nobody who understands what a lobbyist is and what they do wants them banned.

I'm thinking this is typical. Years ago whrn my children were young, I chaperoned a school field trip to the state capitol. Part of that trip was to watch our government in action. NONE of our politicians showed up to the scheduled session. The kids sat there looking confused, wondering why our "leaders" weren't showing up to work.

@Starfish2145

Ай бұрын

Wow, really? That’s disgusting. I would’ve publicly shamed them.

@aliannarodriguez1581

28 күн бұрын

Where I live, being a state lawmaker is a part time job. So they aren’t in the Capitol most of the year and when they are there it’s crazy busy, they are in sessions round the clock.

If we didn't show up for work we'd get fired - where are the term limit changes?

The absolute disdain politicians must have for you to walk out while you're asking them to do something about lethal drugs in the areas they serve. Remember their faces and names.

They should only get paid if they vote, if they don’t, a percentage of their checks should be forfeited. It’s the equivalent of ditching work.

ALL politicians should be restricted to 2 terms of ANY office (PERIOD)

@aliannarodriguez1581

28 күн бұрын

It does take some experience to govern. And I don’t know that having inexperienced politicians will make them less corrupt. A well known politician has a better chance of getting elected without big donors than a newbie. Now if we could go back to limiting campaign spending, then maybe the trade-offs of limited terms would be worth it.

@lauriesica

18 күн бұрын

@@aliannarodriguez1581 Get rid of money in politics. Other successful democracies have already done it. They're only allowed to campaign 2-4 weeks before election day and they all have the exact same amount of money to campaign.

Every state needs this tool and it also needs to be available at a federal level. In addition more states need to make the same stance that I believe Oregon did which was to put a law on the books which punishes legislators who fail to show up for a vote x number of times by blocking them from reelection if they exceed that number.

Excellent journalism. Thank you.

Vote all these politicians out

@Allaiya.

Ай бұрын

Demand they resign for not doing their jobs

Thats not AI it's just a good database

@sophocles1198

Ай бұрын

I was wondering where the AI is.

@jamestaylor3805

Ай бұрын

@@sophocles1198 MAYBE AI is used for data collection but then I would have a harder time trusting the data (ChatGPT)

@RedNymph234

Ай бұрын

AI is the new buzz word that kinda means nothing at this point

@jamestaylor3805

Ай бұрын

MAYBE AI is being used for the collection of data for the system... but then the question becomes how easy could that input be corrupted. The chatGPT rollout proved this concern.

@throckwoddle

Ай бұрын

Also check out the "About" page for how AI is used to recommend story ideas to journalists.

But nobody in government seems to know the meaning of honesty, let alone going a step further to accountability!

@aliannarodriguez1581

28 күн бұрын

Don’t put the civil servants in the same category as politicians. We all know how money and lobbying determines the priorities of politicians. Right now there are protections in place to limit political interference in the day to day work of civil servants, even though politicians get to decide the overall direction of the work done by civil servants. Some politicians want even more control though, and when the day comes that they can start demanding that their buddies get rank and file civil servant jobs, then you can say the whole government is corrupt.

Thank you ladies and CBS News Sacramento for getting this information out! Our legislators and politicians need to start doing their jobs and protect us which is what government's primary responsibility is.

Every U.S. citizen, every person around the world should have this information about their leaders!

They need this for the US congress.

0:58 “fentanyl laced prescription pill”. Do they mean from the pharmacy? That would be a quality control lawsuit. Otherwise it wasn’t a “prescription”, it would be black market.

@tomogden2432

Ай бұрын

You know street dealers sell medications that require prescriptions to be _legally_ distributed, right?

@colorbugoriginals4457

Ай бұрын

the black market pills often originate as prescriptions

@deekang6244

Ай бұрын

No. Pharmacy medication is regulated and controlled carefully. This would not happen. These are street drugs that originated as prescription medication.

@crinklecut3790

Ай бұрын

They probably should have said something to the effect of “looks like a prescription pill.” I finally quit opioids about 5 years ago, when I could no longer tell the legitimately produced pharmaceutical pills from the fake ones that were either bunk or contained fentanyl. The illegal producers have pill presses that make pills that look identical to those produced at pharmaceutical companies.

@parttime9070

Ай бұрын

Nope.. It means they don't know.. These street drugs "look like prescription" and may have a little off the shelf medication in them.. However in some foreign country pill machines run by cartel or gangs are cranking away making "look alike pills" with fentanyl as an ingredient.. Would seem the young woman in question got a strong one.. So yeah drugs are bad..

The audacity of these law makers! That woman Aisha Wahib's behavior in the video made me see red, what a disgusting and reprehensible person! The people of her district have an obligation to kick her out of her job if she's so against doing it! I noticed all of the reps who didn't vote were Dems, how disappointing but unsurprising. We have to watch ALL of our reps every moves to keep them from ripping us off! 😡 Every state needs Digital Democracy!

@evilsharkey8954

Ай бұрын

I think it’s equally likely someone doesn’t want her advancing the bill or that she left to punish the porcelain with a really urgent #2

Money, it's all about kickbacks.

We need an initiative that would disregard abstentions and absences in all legislative votes. And automatically pass any bill from committee if it receives zero votes for or against.

Definitely needed - when politicians aren’t held accountable, you get the train wreck that is California.

@vanessahenry7238

20 күн бұрын

Congress and other states are no different! I am sic of this mess as much as everyone else!

@Nikki-yn7yv

20 күн бұрын

Your whole country is a clown show that only care about trump and his rich mates

@DianeMoonShadow

18 күн бұрын

And the state you live in has this program available for you to use??? Your negativity and hateful bashing is just tedious, pathetic, uninformed propaganda.

If bills are getting hung up in committees, when the legislative body as a whole would pass the bills, then an option would be to add to the rules a discharge petition process, like what the US House has. This allows the body as a whole to vote to "discharge" the bill from committee. I expect that some state legislatures already have this, but don't know if California does.

not AI, not prescription pills

Great report! Thank you!

There should be a law that you are REQUIRED to vote on everything. Every single thing. No exceptions unless you are hospitalized with PROOF.

They messed with the wrong people ! 💔

I worked at the state capital on legislative issues (not CA) and what is described here is called the 'desk veto' - meaning the bill goes to some commitee where it is slated to die from inaction. The the overall leader wants something to pass or fail, they will shuffle it to the committee that will do that for them. Leaders chose the committee leads, so they are absolutely beholden to them. Everyone thinks the governor or president is the most influential members of a given government. The real power is in the Senate and House chambers where a single person in each controls everything that happens in the state or nation - often for decades. Fix it by putting term limits on leadership roles, terms limits on lawmakers, and laws that require single-issue legislation that automatically gets a full floor vote if it "dies in committee". That last one would prevent these bills from being ignored, because if the committee does not advance it then the entire chamber will have to do something about it (ignore is an option).

all states federal and local bring this system

Politicians need to be forced to take a side, not not vote and not decide. You need to choose one or the other. This way we can vote you out if you aren't in tune with the majority of the people. Not voting either way is cowardly and those people should be ousted form being one of our politicians. You are either for or against something, there is no middle ground. OR we simply change it to say if you do not vote either way, it goes to the people automatically.

Ok THIS is the type of AI I'm trying to get on board with. :D Now they have to be consistent. // "I hope they start showing up to do their jobs" yeah I'm also... on board with this...

@aes0p895

Ай бұрын

It's not AI, it's literally just a database API with a search function.

Vote them out

Great informative, meaningful, useful reporting. THANK YOU!!!

Good news report

Where's the AI? Looks like a complicated computer program and database. Big whoop. Should be standard everywhere. (Btw I'm appalled at the blatant callousness of the senators who couldn't be bothered to actually do their jobs and vote. Despicable.)

@dwlas

Ай бұрын

Agreed I don’t think there’s really any AI here, probably just used in the headline for clicks. Regardless this is an important issue and I hope this tool can help hold our elected officials accountable.

@aes0p895

Ай бұрын

Correct. This is just a pretty good database API. No AI involved, at least none shown.

@taekwoncrawfish9418

Ай бұрын

@@dwlasthere is absolutely AI algorithms for the database.

@branevans3705

Ай бұрын

@@taekwoncrawfish9418 I'd like to research this before commenting, but some type of AI can absolutely be involved. Whether it is being used for this data base, is pure conjecture. But I'm glad it's click-bait so more people can be aware of all of this.

@taekwoncrawfish9418

Ай бұрын

@@branevans3705 it’s not clickbait though. Ai is everywhere these days. Ai was the one that showed you this video.

How did the person get a fentanyl laced pill? Did the pharmacy do that?

@silencemeviolateme6076

Ай бұрын

Yes

@Funknfritter

Ай бұрын

counterfeit pills. There are a lot of fakes out there

@evilsharkey8954

Ай бұрын

Some street dealer cut the expensive ingredient and added cheap fentanyl to get the same effect and then pressed the powder into a prescription pill shape. It only looks like a prescription pill, but it’s counterfeit

@elpenprice679

Ай бұрын

Dealers, black market, things they shouldn't have been doing ofc

@beckinfidelis3916

20 күн бұрын

No, the Mexican drug cartels manufacture MILLIONS of counterfeit pharmaceutical pills that look very real. All different kinds. They have factories and use the same type of machinery as a real pharmaceutical company. The counterfeit pills are the NUMBER ONE cause of fentanyl drug overdoses in the US. Especially for children. 😢😢 Yeah, at least in one year over half the fentanyl related deaths were kids, aged 11 to 19. Frighteningly border Patrol seized 500,000 pills that were made to almost look like candy, they were brightly colored in red, pink, yellow, blue and shaped like hearts, flowers, stars, smiley faces and butterflies. Its because they are marketing them to children!

Hold them accountable!

We need this program in Washington.

Our politicians are the worst

"Fentanyl-laced prescription pill" makes it sound like the the pills you get from Walgreens or CVS for your average cough. But that's not actually what happened here, right?

@TheTibetyak

Ай бұрын

@patricksoon85: You are correct. And lots of people are being pushed down this tube of misinformation: www.dea.gov/onepill. I haven't had to be concerned about this "epidemic", but the way this was phrased made me do a quick search. This very short page from the DEA leaves no question about it.

@branevans3705

Ай бұрын

Hey Sherlock, you're a real sleuth, aren't you? LOL, look at you-pointing your digital troll finger at these grieving moms. Tough guy, eh?

@war2thegrave

Ай бұрын

​@branevans3705 The real 'troll' is the lie of omission commited daily by the presstitutes in the media. If you think that it's ok to lie to spare someone's feelings, then prepare for many multitude more grieving moms.

@LotsOfBologna2

Ай бұрын

Prescription pills can be illegally sold to those who don't have a prescription and abused. Examples are Oxycodone/Oxycotin and Adderall. My guess is that's what got laced. While there's a small possibility someone's actual medication was tampered with to poison them, I haven't heard this happening as often.

@elpenprice679

Ай бұрын

Fake pills, what surprise...

Good report

Wait that's not ai though. It's just a database. Nothing to do with ai at all. Are they just saying ai to get more funding?

We need this app everywhere

Good a Government by the people for the people must be transparent🌟

There has to be accountability. Otherwise... What's happening now.

Destruction by design. I really wish people would wake up to that truth.

Money for them > your childs life, in the beginning stages or walking on two leggs.

Seems that we have a lot of cowards in office, they do do need to be held responsible!

Shout out to CalMatters! Please support them, they’re really struggling rn.

For completeness, they really should have described the arguments made against this bill. Laws don’t always accomplish what you intend, and I’m wondering if these politicians had reason to worry about unintended consequences of the law even if they agreed with the reasons for wanting it.

Please expand this system to all other states, if not just FL!!!

Its like we don't need anything officials. We need representatives.

With everyone having a smart phone we dont need these elected officials anymore. Use your social security number , address and a pin number and vote on legislation .

How can the people of a state hold their leaders accountable if the peope dont understand the system of government, economics, logic, or history?

Because these politicians believe these victims aren’t victims at all.

We definitely won't get this tool in FL unfortunately.

How about make drugs illegal so people don’t do them anymore.

Yet here in Wisconsin, 2/3 of our legislature can just not show up for weeks on end and somehow we're okay with that...

California lawmakers care about one thing………their power….period.

It is time for direct democracy.

Let put that in the capital congress

To be fair, Alexandra's Law was written in such a way that it would be nearly impossible to enforce, and it wouldn't have reduced the number of fentanyl overdose deaths. That said, Senator Wahab deserves to be recalled for her blatant disrespect for that grieving mother.

@chrisbgood2359

22 күн бұрын

Well said, i agree 💯

Does it track contributions? Investments? Familial income? This could be a game changer.

Exactly what you can expect in a Democrat supermajority. Hopefully the government vote tracking catches on, a site that users can vote for and against compared to what the politician voted would be useful.

should be nationwide as well

Fentanyl lased prescription pill? Sounds like a lawsuit to me.

Yes, get that tool out to the general public. Too long have politicians been able to deny accountability.

Weiner should be ashamed of himself given how many people died by fentanyl in his district.

@violent_bebop9687

Ай бұрын

Weiner has ZERO shame, wants full drugs on the streets. His enacted laws are fully self evident. CA voters have only themselves to blame.

Question: could politicians be in bed with the cartel?

What is the name of the tool?

wow....

No one’s gonna talk about that ticker at 0:19?

@Allaiya.

Ай бұрын

lol wow

@Allaiya.

Ай бұрын

Looks like a ticker that would be in an Onion video lol

Seriously I gotta say if I ever found the government had a hand in something terrible like this with my kids well can’t say but it wouldn’t be a legal action

Why would you not vote on this bill? Why would you not want to pass this bill? This is disgusting.

Looking back at my own high school experience, thankfully my parents forced me to work, I had a full time job in high school, I didn’t have time to fool around with classmates to get into much trouble. But I smoked cigs, and drank beer none the less, Today with the internet and kids always have too much access to everything now I can see why kids die today.

This is really interesting use of AI + transparency.

@hayuseen6683

Ай бұрын

Where's the AI? This is just a database. Idiot reporters that don't understand tech... or dishonest clickbait. Not sure which.

@superresistant8041

Ай бұрын

@@hayuseen6683 I don't know what is it exactly but it could be using text to speech and knowledge based model. You could have agents that find "bad attitude" or things like that.

maybe hold these parents accountable on why they didn't help their own kids.. way to pass off the responsibility.

Vote them out!

To these grieving moms: even president bush continues to sit with kindergartners when he heard about 9/11. I’m so sorry for your loss. Keep fighting these leaches.

Manufacturing consent, like opioid 's its our medical industry, our for profit Healthcare industry created this problem

They are your betters,they tell you what to do... This is what they are saying to you ....

Hold them accountable?! HAHHA, okay, sure. The only way to hold them accountable is vote them out of office, but they won't do that around here.

@tomogden2432

Ай бұрын

Maybe they will now that they've seen how little Senator Wahab cares about her constituents.

This is why I think law maker are in in on the take

Reginald Jones-Sawyer a black lawmaker was formerly the Chairman of the Public Safety Committee. Every single bill that was presented he would argue its impact on black and brown people. Everything impacts them MORE. Even a bill on child sex trafficking he argued it impacted black and brown people more. One could say black and brown victims were dismissed in favor of the black and brown criminal. Finally he was replaced in the Public Safety Committee. When showing names of law makers who did not vote his name was on the list in the segment. Now for the moms, are they tough on other crime or just the crimes that took their child? Few care until it impacts them directly. How do they vote? This is justice reform, not holding people accountable. Finally Governor Newsom has been closing prison and Los Angeles wants to close to men’s jail. There will be NO PLACE to incarcerate criminals.

Someone somewhere in politics will change the way we as the public view our governments.

I'm a little confused. The moms said their children died of prescription pills laced with fentanyl? How are they lacing already formed legal medications or are kids buying like Vicodin not knowing it's got fentanyl added? It doesn't make sense to me cause if dealers are adding something to make a pill stronger, I'd think they'd tell buyers so they could charge more for the pills, right? So do the kids know what they are taking just not exactly how strong it is cause the fentanyl is illegal?

@Starfish2145

Ай бұрын

That is probably an inaccurate description. You’ll never get a fentanyl pill from a pharmacy. However, drug dealers will often take a legitimate prescription that they buy from someone, crush it down and add fentanyl as a filler, and then resell it.

@nBasedAce

Ай бұрын

​@@Starfish2145But these were supposedly prescription pills and not pills made by a drug dealer.

@tuttifrutti2642

Ай бұрын

It’s a way of wording things to shift blame from the young adults who chose to take drugs that were not prescribed to them. They knew they weren’t tic tacs.

@evilsharkey8954

Ай бұрын

They’re fake pills. It’s not that hard to press your own cocktail of cheap drugs into a pill shape and say it’s oxycodone.

@elpenprice679

Ай бұрын

Exactly, couldn't be the kids fault right? Right??

Cartel Payoffs.

Is warning someone not to distribute fentanyl actually going to help?

@WithoutRemorse12

Ай бұрын

No, because Fentanyl basically took over the Heroin market.

@chrisbgood2359

22 күн бұрын

No, beacause criminals dont care, they view any consequences, which are curenntly very minor, the cost of doin business. They deal drugs in prison too. We need consequences for criminals, not more hurdles for the DA and court.

November is coming if you really want change.