Maura Phelan updates state of the Travis County DA race

"The righteous is delivered from trouble,
And it comes to the wicked instead."
Proverbs 11:8

Maura Phelan spoke to the Central Texas Republican Assembly last night about the the DA's race:



Highlights:

• Travis county DA has civil divisions that handle mental health and child removal situations.
• "Those two divisions in our DA's office are completely underserved."
• 1 prosecutor for 10,000 cases.

• 30% of our jail population is mental health issues.
• "This is very expensive."

• "Our District Attorney's office has no standards for plea bargains."
• "This is why we have a huge disparity in sentences for people with the same offense and the same background....THAT'S GOTTA CHANGE!"

• "I'm getting a lot of support from...the East side."

• "A lot of support from formerly incarcerated persons who can vote and who want to help because they want to see this change."

• It's been 30 years since the D candidate has been in courtroom.

• "The last time she represented the state in a felony offense...was when I wan in junior high and the last last time she was a misdemeanor prosecutor when she was county attorney was when I was an undergrad."