Administrator Member
| Joe Lovelace is (or was) the president of the Texas chapter of NAMI, a national advocacy group for the mentally ill. He spends a lot of time at the Capitol during the session, lobbying and testifying on the need for increased funding for the mental health system; for instance, NAMI helped secure additional state funding for TCOMI (Tx. Council for Offenders w/ Mental Impairments) last session. For more, check out TCOMI's website here: TDCJ-TCOMI. I think Joe became involved in volunteering for NAMI due to a son with mental illness, and there's some tragic story behind it, but I don't know the details. I would guess that in addition to being a self-styled expert on sentencing options for the mentally ill on probation, he'd say how horrible it is for the mentally ill to be in prison, yada, yada. But I wouldn't categorize him as a bleeding heart on crime issues. |
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Member
| I know joe lovelace. He is a good man. His son does have some severe mental illness. He is a trial attorney. Did general practice in Linden Texas for a number of years. He later went to Dallas and specialize in medical malpractice. He has retired to be a full time unpaid lobbyist on mental health issues. He testified for the defense in the Houston case in which the mother killed her five children. I doubt he is a bleeding except where health issues are concerned. His father was a District Attorney in the late 50s early 60s |
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