This is a blog for the Mental Health Policy Class at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work.

Showing posts with label Elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elections. Show all posts

January 22, 2008

Please Review the Candidates Positions on Mental Health Policy

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) has sent a questionnaire to all presidential candidates in each party. We also encouraged candidates to provide us with other relevant materials or explanations of their positions if they did not have time to respond to our questionnaire.
NAMI does not endorse specific candidates and any materials posted are intended for educational purposes only. They should not be used by any affiliate to endorse a candidate. Non-profit charitable organizations, including NAMI affiliates, are prohibited by law from endorsing specific candidates.

September 6, 2007

Bill Bradley on Politics (New York Times Editorial)

A party based on charisma has no long-term impact. Think of our last charismatic leader, Bill Clinton. He was president for eight years. He was the first Democrat to be re-elected since Franklin Roosevelt. He was smart, skilled and possessed great energy. But what happened? At the end of his tenure in the most powerful office in the world, there were fewer Democratic governors, fewer Democratic senators, members of Congress and state legislators and a national party that was deep in debt. The president did well. The party did not. Charisma didn’t translate into structure.