Past
Events on Zoom
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Paul Coggins Speaks About Current
Trump Legal Troubles on April 10, 2023
Metrocrest Democrats meeting, Monday
April 10th
Our speaker Paul Coggins
Former US Attorney for the Northern District
of Texas, 1993-2001. He will discuss
the various charges against former president
Trump in his indictment in NYC.
Paul is the Co-Chair of the national White
Collar Criminal Defense and Internal
Investigations practice for Locke and Lord, LLP
and a nationally recognized criminal defense
attorney, whose clients have included
high-ranking politicians, Fortune 500
executives, professional athletes, nonprofit
organizations, and government bodies.
During time at the US Attorney's Office, he
twice served on the US Attorney General's
Advisory Council and in 1998 became it's
Vice-Chair
Metrocrest
Meeting March 13th, 2023
With guest speakers
Jaime Rivas, Candidate for Farmers Branch
Mayor
Wes Nute, Candidate for Carrollton
Farmers Branch ISD
Mike Dooling, Candiddate for Carrollton
City Council Place 6
Adam Polter, Candidate for Carrollton
Mayor
John Love, Candidate for the US
Senate against Cancun Cruz.
Metrocrest
Meeting January 16th, 2023
Our speaker will be
SMU Professor Matthew Wilson
Professor Wilson will talk about the last
election in Texas, and discuss why results were
far less positive than in many other states
across the country. He specializes in
political psychology, the voting behavior of
different groups, including young voters
and religious voters and is currently
working on a book that deals with how citizens
decide whom to hold accountable for social and
political outcomes. A commentator on
political affairs for local, national and
international media outlets and a regular
contributor to the Dallas Morning
News `'Texas Faith" blog on religion in
public life, his most recent works include
Understanding American Politics and Religion and
Politics in American Life.
Metrocrest
Meeting September 9th, 2022
With speaker Dallas County District
Attorney John Creuzot
First elected as District Attorney in 2018,
John is currently running for reelection.
We have asked him to speak about the challenges
to local officials from state oversight, as in
Florida, where Governor DeSantis removed the
County State Attorney in Hillsborough County
because he had allegedly signed letters
saying he would not enforce laws prohibiting
gender-affirming care for minors or laws
limiting abortion.
John Creuzot served more than 21 years as a
Felony District Court Judge, and his background
also includes seven years of service as a Dallas
County Assistant District Attorney and Chief
Felony Prosecutor as well as a criminal defense
lawyer while in private practice.
In addition to serving on both sides of the
bench, Creuzot has a national reputation for his
innovative work on drug courts, criminal justice
reform and evidence-based sentencing. At
the suggestion of Ann Richards he began the use
of diversion courts which provides an
alternative to incarceration for nonviolent
drug offenders. After retiring from
the judiciary, Dallas County recognized his
contribution by renaming its drug
treatment facility the Judge John C Creuzot
Treatment Center in May 2013.
The facility is coordinated with the Dallas
Community Supervision and Corrections Department
and the Dallas County Courts. The center works
to ensure successful substance abuse treatment
and reintegration into the community. It also
offers education and skills training and job
search assistance to probationers, and education
and counseling for family members. The
facility is coordinated with the Dallas
Community Supervision and
Corrections Department and the Dallas County
Courts.
Metrocrest Meeting August 8th, 2022
Jason P. Steed, Counsel, discusses the 2022
SCOTUS session and what it means,
and a look towards next year. BA Brigham
Young, M FA, U of Idaho, PhD, U of Nevada, Las
Vegas, JD UT, with many honors; and has been
recognized for excellence by his peers....
"Jason Steed is an appellate attorney
with extensive experience in both state and
federal appellate courts across the nation,
including the Supreme Court of the United
States, the Supreme Court of Texas, the Supreme
Court of California, and the Supreme Court of
Alaska. His two greatest strengths are his
creative legal thinking and his incisive legal
writing. Jason has represented clients in a
variety of practice areas, including complex
commercial litigation, class actions, employment
litigation, qui tam/FCA litigation, product
liability, and constitutional law.
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Metrocrest Meeting June 20th, 222 9th, 2022
We
invited candidates for the Chair of the Texas
Democratic Party, who will be chosen by
delegates to the Democratic Party State
Convention.
They
discuss their vision for the Party going forward
and answer questions.
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Metrocrest Meeting May 9th, 2022
Meet the Candidates
This
meeting is devoted to candidates in the
Democratic Party Primary runoff,
including
statewide seats, US House races,
and several county offices.
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Metrocrest Meeting April 18th, 2022
This meeting is devoted to candidates in
the May 7th joint election (municipal
and school board).
There are some Democrats running and
it's important to support them especially in an
election with traditionally very low
turnout. A few votes can make all the
difference.
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Metrocrest Meeting March 14th, 2022
Professor Cal Jilsson of SMU
speaks, one of the nations's foremost
political experts.
Cal regularly provides journalists
thoughtful insights on US and Texas
politics, and is a frequent commentator on
various network programs. He is also the
author of Lone Star Tarnished: A Critical
Look at Texas Politics and Public Policy.
Professor Jilsson to speaks about the
prospects for Democrats post-Primary and to
discuss the role progressives in the Texas
Democratic Party will play.
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Meet the Midterm Candidates February 7th,
2022
Meet the Midterm Candidates in
contested primary races to attend our meeting
for our members and friends to meet them and
ask any questions they may have of the
candidates before voting in the primary.
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Metrocrest Democrats January 11th, 2022
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins
speaks about the role government in
large, urban, largely Democratic counties will
play going forward in the face of Republican
efforts at the state level to limit the powers
and authority of local officials at all
levels.
First elected in 2010 Judge Jenkins
has weathered many crises, including an
outbreak of West Nile Virus in 2012 when he
declared a state of emergency for the county
and led efforts to spray for mosquitoes. In
2014 during the child migrant crisis, Jenkins
offered refuge in Dallas County to almost 2000
migrant children who crossed the US border
with Mexico. This move led to a meeting
between President Obama and Governor Rick
Perry regarding the issue.
When in 2014, Dallas County became the first
county in the US to have a confirmed Ebola
virus case, Jenkins led the local
response. His actions won national
praise for destigmatizing the disease by
showing that it couldn't be transmitted
between asymptomatic persons by entering the
home of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first victim
of Ebola in the US, without personal
protective equipment in order to help Duncan's
family move into temporary housing while their
house was decontaminated.
During the current Covid-19 outbreak,
Jenkins was the first Texas official to
declare a stay-at-home order, a week before
Governor Abbott issued a similar statewide
measure. Jenkins' continuing cautious
approach in the face of a public health crisis
has brought him into direct conflict with
Republican officials at the state level and in
particular with Governor Abbott.
As Dallas and Texas have experienced
huge economic and population expansion in the
last 12 years, In the current pandemic
environment he sees Covid as the most
challenging issue going forward economically
and socially as well as from an educational
standpoint. Dealing with it is his
biggest priority as he supports policies to
make Dallas County more healthy, equitable,
affordable, and prosperous.
After Judge Jenkin's presentation, there
were opportunities for candidates for local
office and judiciary positions to introduce
themselves.
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Metrocrest Democrats Meeting November 8th,
2021
Joe Jaworski candidate for Texas Attorney
General speaks. Joe Jaworski is a
third-generation Texas trial attorney and
former Mayor of Galveston, Texas. Joe’s term
as mayor was defined by his unwavering support
for and success in rebuilding Galveston’s
storm-devastated public housing; a political
choice that made a positive difference for
thousands of Island residents.
In 2021, he began his thirtieth year of
practice, a career that began as law clerk to
United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit
Judge John R. Brown, followed by a robust
Admiralty defense trial practice representing
Gulf Coast maritime interests and then, a
rewarding plaintiff’s trial practice
representing injured maritime workers. From
these various career experiences, he finally
found his niche.
Joe owns The Jaworski Law Firm,
headquartered in Galveston, and his practice
is 100% mediation. He specializes in mediating
Defense Base Act claims, mediating hundreds of
claims annually domestically and abroad; these
are the claims brought by military contractors
for personal injuries arising from the War on
Terror.
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Metrocrest Democrats Meeting September 13th,
2021
Rene Martinez speaks about Critical
Race Theory. Rene is a major voice in
the Dallas area Latin American
community. He is an educational
consultant,President of LULAC Council 100 and
the District Director of the LULAC Northeast
Texas Region.
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