WITNESS LIST
Child Welfare & Foster Care, Select Committee
June 2, 2004-10:00A
Charge #2, Kinship Care
For: Basile, Michael (Self)
Belt, Robert (Self)
Bower, Bruce (Texas Kincare Taskforce)
Cantu, Cruz (AARP)
Crosby, Lynn (Self)
Ellis, Karena (Self)
Fischer, Pam (Self)
Gleason, Calvin (Self)
Jansky, Stephanie (Self)
Kirbo, Loretta (Self and Dwight Wayne Jones)
Philpott, Elain (Self)
Philpott, Ricky (Self)
Against: Branson, Chris (Self and Family Rights Foundation)
Burton, III, Thomas H. (Justice for Children)
Hanson, Thomas (Self)
Shields, Jim (Justice for Children)
On: Bower, Keith (Self)
Chapmond, Thomas (Texas Department of Family and
Protective Services)
Davies, David (Casey Family Programs)
Eells, Karen (Texas Department of Family and Protective
Services)
Ferland, Megan (Texas CASA)
Gates, Gary (Texas Center for Family Rights)
Johnston, Peter (Self and Texas Center for Family
Rights)
Kirby, Deborah (Self)
Klein, Angie (Texas Department of Public Safety)
McClure, Madeline (TexProtects, The Texas Association
for the Protection of Children)
McCown, F. Scott (The Center for Public Policy
Priorities)
McIntyre, Harold (Self)
Milton, Dr. Jerome (Self)
Sanders, Tom (Self and Home School Legal Defense
Association)
Specia, Jr., Judge John (225th District Court)
Zelasko, Terri (Texas Foster Family Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
For: Smith, Beverly (Self)
Smith, Dr. Herschel (Self)
Against: Sutlan, Damaris (Dee) M. (Self)
On: Perrin, Judy (Self)
Verney, Russell (Judicial Watch, Inc.)