Marie Antoinette famously said: Let them eat cake. After which she lost her head.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Democrats think the Mayor of Lancaster (CA), Rex Parris, has lost his head by advocating giving homeless people 'free fentanyl … all the fentanyl they want.'
[https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-20/lancaster-mayor-calls-for-homeless-to-get-free-fentanyl]
According to the Mayor:
I made it very clear I was talking about the criminal element that were let out of the prisons that have now become 40 to 45% of what’s referred to as the homeless population,” he said. “They are responsible for most of our robberies, most of our rapes, and at least half of our murders,” he said, without providing evidence to back up those assertions.
Parris is known for his unusual ideas:
In 2013, he made headlines when, in an effort to woo Chinese investment, he talked of opening a trade office in Beijing and building a Buddhist temple in his desert town.
In 2018, he was back in the news for a proposal to make neckties optional among workers in the city, citing studies that they diminish blood flow to the brain.