When Pima County Supervisor Rex Scott pushed back on criticism of the county’s response to the fentanyl crisis and chronic homelessness last week, many expected another shoe to drop once Tucson Mayor Regina Romero returned from a conference in Brazil.
Some even wondered whether next week’s planned joint meeting would get scrapped altogether.
Romero responded Saturday with a lengthy statement outlining the city’s efforts to tackle the public health crisis — just as Scott did last week in defense of the county — but she didn’t escalate the rhetoric.
Instead, the two-term Democrat said she didn’t think it was useful “to relitigate the past.”…