Well, This Explains a Lot

Got this gem from last week’s edition of the Alibi —

According to county studies, nearly 50 percent of Bernalillo County residents need some level of mental health or substance abuse treatment. These untreated health conditions often intersect with police, increase incarceration rates and cause over use of our hospital emergency rooms.

The Wikipedia page for Bernalillo County says that per the 2010 census, the population of the county is 662,564.

If 300,000 people in the greater Albuquerque area have mental health issues or substance abuse problems, that goes a long way to explaining how Debbie O’Malley and Isaac Benton keep getting re-elected to City and County government.

After all, who in their right mind would vote for these lunatics?

Also, 300,000 people in one area — that’s very likely a stable population. And considering that Bernalillo County has been electing whack-jobs (for example, Jim Baca and Eric Griego) the whole time I’ve been living here, chances are that they’ve been voting.

And to think that New Mexico used to have statutory provisions forbidding idiots and intoxicated people from voting.

NOTES

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