FEB. 11, 2021
NAMI Ask the Expert â Help, Not Handcuffs
Part 1: The Definition of Insanity Documentary & Panel Discussion
February 25, 2021, 4:00 â 6:00 p.m. ET
This first webinar of the series will feature a showing of the 2020 PBS documentary
The Definition of Insanity, which tells the story of the Miami-Dade Criminal Mental Health Project (CMHP), a team of dedicated public servants working through the courts to redirect people living with mental illness from incarceration to recovery.
Following the showing, NAMI’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ken Duckworth will lead a guided discussion and Q&A with our panel of experts, many of whom are featured in the documentary. Panelists from a variety of specialties will share insights, information and resources on their community’s response to our nation’s mental health crisis.
Now more than ever, Republicans needed a blacklist. It neednât be very long â just eight names would suffice: John Weaver, Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, George Conway, Reed Galen, Mike Madrid, Ron Steslow, and Jennifer Horn.
These eight are the founding members of the Donald Trump-hating Lincoln Project, that now utterly disgraced stink bomb of a political action committee that seemed to be far more adept at sexually preying on young men and separating gullible Democrats from their money than influencing the American electorate.
When we wrote about them two weeks ago, the full measure of the Lincoln Projectâs awfulness hadnât yet come into clear focus. At that time, theyâd only recently thrown their sick senior leader under the bus a full three weeks after a lone journalist named Ryan Gidursky had broken the story in The American Conservative.
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Many conservatives have long accused the Lincoln Project of being a shady, albeit lucrative, grift. Many of those same conservatives are feeling vindicated in recent days, as the organization of anti-Trump (and ultimately anti-Republican) firebrands is in the midst of a meltdown. One of its co-founders, a married father, has been accused of sexual misconduct involving dozens of young men. Before I go on, a disclosure: I personally know at least four men who were targeted by John Weaver, some of whom have come forward publicly; others have not. One who does not wish to have his name associated with this firestorm tells me that he was effectively promised a political job by Weaver in exchange for sex. When the dangled job never materialized, Weaver issued what the young man interpreted as thinly-veiled threats about keeping quiet. This scandal isn t about racy or lurid private messages. It s about manipulative sexual quid pro quo s and abuses of power.
Out of roughly $90 million the anti-Trump Lincoln Project has raised, more than half has gone to firms run by the group’s founders, according to open records data reviewed by Fox Business.