Sunday, August 17, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Harris County candidates forum on criminal justice and behavioral health
WHEN SYSTEMS COLLIDE:
HARRIS COUNTY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS
One Voice and The Network of Behavioral Health Providers invite you to a Candidates' Forum at which candidates for key Harris County offices will offer their views on how the office for which they are running and the county can have an impact to ensure that the adult criminal justice system is not the community behavioral health treatment system "safety net".
It is a well known fact that nation-wide the failure to provide adequate community behavioral health services impacts a community's criminal justice system. In Harris County , much attention and effort have been paid to providing county inmates needed behavioral health treatment.
But should the Harris County Jail be the largest mental health facility in the state of Texas ?
DATE: Tuesday, August 26, 2008
RECEPTION: 5:00 - 6:00 pm
CANDIDATES' FORUM: 6:00 - 8:00 pm
LOCATION: United Way of Greater Houston
50 Waugh Drive
Houston, Texas 77007
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS:
(listed alphabetically under office)
CANDIDATES FOR HARRIS COUNTY JUDGE
Harris County Judge Ed Emmett
Mr. David Mincberg
CANDIDATES FOR HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Mr. C.O. "Brad" Bradford
Ms. Pat Lykos
CANDIDATES FOR HARRIS COUNTY SHERIFF
City of Houston Council Member Adrian Garcia
Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas (Not Confirmed)
Please RSVP by Wednesday, August 20th to:
onevoice@ghcf.org or 713.333.2215
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Perhaps some citizen will try to arrest Rove while he's in town today
Here is the itinerary for today's Fugitive Fundraiser Tour. He's raising money for Terrified Texas House Republicans.
What is the nature of Karl Rove's security detail when he attends these things? Is it more than the local police? Contracted bodyguards? Blackwater?
Who's paying for it? He's not a government employee any longer, after all. Why are local police and taxpayer funds used to pay for the protection of a man who is in comtempt of Congress, among his many other crimes?
Disavow yourself of the notion that any Texas Republican wouldn't sell his daughter into white slavery just for the opportunity to stand next to Herr General Rove. The local right-wing freaks live for this shit.
Do you think they run people through metal detectors at the downtown Aquarium?