Corrupt: Colorado Senate Prez Garcia Legislates to Benefit His Employer
2 min read(Colorado Peak Politics) Colorado Senate President Leroy Garcia might be in line for a new “employee of the month” parking space at his day job.
The Pueblo Democrat recently introduced legislation that would directly benefit his employer, American Medical Response (AMR).
AMR provides “emergency and non-emergency medical transport” in Colorado, and “employs approximately 200 paramedics and EMTs and handles an average of 40,000 calls annually.”
Garcia is a paramedic for AMR in Pueblo, and recently told the Denver Post he wants the General Assembly this year to consider “community paramedicine to relieve the system by getting patients treatment earlier.”
“Some people are looking at it from a lens of just the pandemic,” Garcia said. “In reality, there’s more to it than that.”
By “more to it” Garcia must have really meant “more taxpayer cash” for his employers.
Garcia and State Rep. Kyle Mullica are the prime sponsors of SB21-156 which would create “a pilot grant program to help finance the use of nurse intake of 911 calls, which involves nurses assisting with 911 dispatch for the purpose of diverting non-urgent 911 calls to medical care that does not require ambulance service or treatment in an emergency room.”
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