Kudos to our own area legislator. From the SacBee…
Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher is a smooth-talking lawmaker – a talent that came in handy this week when the San Diego Republican convinced a man not to hang himself on a downtown Sacramento bike bridge.
The Sacramento Police Department confirmed today that two passers-by intervened Wednesday after spotting the man with one end of a rope tied around his neck and the other around a bikeway commonly known as the “Pipe Bridge” in northern Sacramento near 16th Street.
Fletcher said he was jogging in the area when he spotted the suicidal man, then asked a passers-by to summon police and approached the distraught subject along with a homeless man who called himself “Squirrel.”
Read the entire story in Capitol Alert.
At the risk of being glib about a serious situation (but we’ll take that risk), SD Rostra could not confirm that Fletcher was also heard to say, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you,” as well as “You think you’ve got it bad…I’m a California State legislator.”
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No doubt that as a Republican legislator in Sacramento Fletcher could empathize with a depressed, disenfranchised person.
You can also read Fletcher’s own account here http://bit.ly/7UvhAe