{"id":61067,"date":"2025-10-02T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61067"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:21:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:21:30","slug":"misuse-of-the-opioid-settlement-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61067","title":{"rendered":"Misuse Of The Opioid Settlement Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 29th, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dem-house-candidate-used-funds-meant-for-recovering-opioid-addicts-to-transport-kids-to-an-lgbtq-youth-center-offering-medical-transition-seminars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Democratic House candidate Bob Harvie (Pa.), a county commissioner in Pennsylvania, oversees a local fund that distributes millions of dollars his county received as part of a settlement with opioid manufacturers. While the money is supposed to go toward &#8220;Prevention, Treatment and Recovery&#8221; services, Harvie used some of it to transport kids as young as 14 to an &#8220;LGBTQ-youth&#8221; center that offers &#8220;medical transition&#8221; seminars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Bucks County, Pa., Board of Commissioners, which Harvie chairs, approved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buckscounty.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/20481\/12192024---Mini-Grant-Awards?bidId=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a $13,500-grant<\/a> in December to Planned Parenthood Keystone for &#8220;Expanding Services and Transportation&#8221; to the Rainbow Room, a local center that caters to gay and trans youth. The grant was used to transport high school students to Rainbow Room functions, the <i>Delaware Valley Journal<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/delawarevalleyjournal.com\/opioid-settlement-money-funds-teen-transport-to-lower-bucks-rainbow-room\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> earlier this year. Its funding came from\u00a0the county&#8217;s Opioid Settlement Fund, which is due to receive $70 million from drug distributors and pharmacy chains over the next 18 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The money from this settlement was supposed to be used to help the people who became addicted to drugs as a result of using <span class=\"_97w2Z3njlMm7Og_zyqu4\">OxyContin after its manufacturers claimed that the drug was non-addictive. Using it to encourage medical transition among young people is one way of ensuring that the pharmaceutical companies will have patients for life. People who are &#8216;transitioned&#8217; have to be on a major drug protocol for their entire lives. Our bodies are programmed to maintain the sex we were born with&#8211;even after surgery and medical procedures, the body still produces the hormones and DNA that align with its original sex. It takes a lot of drugs to overcome that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_97w2Z3njlMm7Og_zyqu4\">The article concludes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Roy G Biv will hold a seminar later this week about &#8220;The Spectrum of Asexuality,&#8221; and in June held an event called &#8220;Queer Tarot Night.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Harvie has worked closely with the Rainbow Room before. In 2023, Harvie, donning a rainbow tie, <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/newhope-lambertville\/bucks-county-commissioners-proclaim-june-lgbtq-pride-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> an event to commemorate gay pride month with Marlene Pray, the Rainbow Room director who provided the condom-filled goody bags for the organization\u2019s Queer Prom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Harvie\u2019s allies have also tapped taxpayer money to fund the Rainbow Room.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In November 2022, state senator Steve Santarsiero (D.), who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/steveforpasenate\/posts\/i-am-proud-to-stand-with-bob-harvie-in-his-run-for-congress-bob-has-the-experien\/1054559619824585\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Harvie for Congress, announced $630,000 in state funding would be allocated to the Rainbow Room to open a second facility in Bucks County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Harvie\u2019s campaign, the Bucks County commissioners\u2019 office, and the Rainbow Room did not respond to requests for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gender dysphoria is a mental illness. We don&#8217;t need to push it on our children.<span class=\"_97w2Z3njlMm7Og_zyqu4\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 29th, The Washington Free Beacon reported the following: Democratic House candidate Bob Harvie (Pa.), a county commissioner in Pennsylvania, oversees a local fund that distributes millions of dollars his county received as part of a settlement with opioid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=61067\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18559,18560,18561,9385,13054],"class_list":["post-61067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-democrat-pennsylvania-house-candidate-bob-harvie","tag-opiod-settlement-money","tag-rainbow-room","tag-the-washington-free-beacon","tag-transgender-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61068,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61067\/revisions\/61068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}