Tim Kaine doesn't really seem to much care about quality in the  Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse, so it is not a surprise that people are getting assaulted and even dying in their facilities, or (I understand) on man had parts of his ear bitten off.

After tragic killings of 32 people in Blacksburg Virginia by a mentally ill man, one might think that the state DMHMRSAS Board would examine their own Quality Assurance and Quality Control programs.

But there is no record that Victoria Cochran (Chair State Mental Health Board) or anyone else on that Board discussed issues of quality control in the nearly 8 months since the Virginia Tech killings.

The parents, families, and friends of the slain students/faculty at Tech need to understand that Ms. Cochran and the other members of the state Mental Health board appear to be cosmically indifferent to the deaths at Virginia Tech, and there is no evidence in their meeting minutes to indicate they have undertaken any sort of quality control review of the Mental Health System to assure such a tragedy will not occur again.

Record keeping and Meeting Minutes appear to be really sloppy so it's not clear how many times DMHMRSAS State Board met in 2005 (the year Seung Hui Cho was to have been examined), but it appears they missed something like 1/2 their meetings.

They should send the members of DMHMRSAS State Board for a mental examination for deriliction of duty to their constituents because they seem to have laughed off such an important responsibility; and the deaths in Blacksburg are proof of it.

So far, of course, Tim Kaine is silent on this issue.