As the Alliance for Substance Abuse Progress gets ready for its one year anniversary meeting next week, we asked the candidates for Bartholomew County Council district 1 and 2 in the Republican primaries about their thoughts on the county’s role in tackling the epidemic and how they will consider funding requests from ASAP.
In the District 1 race, Scott Bonnell is running against Marcus Speer.
Bonnell explains that this is a public health crisis
Speer says that as a minister he has performed funeral services for an overdose victim.
In the District 2 race, incumbent Laura DeDomenic is running againt Glenn Petri.
Petri sees only a limited role for government in the epidemic
DeDomenic said the county has multiple layers of responsibility
The ASAP one-year progress update is coming up at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday evening at The Commons.
