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- REP. TUBBS JONES
IN BAD SHAPEDEADSTILL IN BAD SHAPEHAS DIED: “Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, is reported to have suffered an aneurysm and is not expected to recover, according to CBS affiliate WOIO in Cleveland. WOIO also reported that the congresswoman is on life support at this time.”UPDATE: John Kerry has already sent out his statement, so she is deceased.UPDATE: No wait she is alive again.LAST UPDATE: Stephanie Tubbs Jones died this evening, the family and hospital have confirmed. [CBS News]
I suppose she really is out of her mind now… wonder if she’ll come back???
Shit, that sucks. So all those times when she looked like she was about to have an aneurysm on TV were… real?
I don’t get it. What’s the joke?
This makes me extremely sad. She gave Colbert
the best interview he ever had, in my opinion.
Unless she hit a pedestrian I’m not impressed at this attention-getting stunt.
After this election, nobody’s going to want to be a superdelegate ever again. My best wishes to her — that’s awful news.
NotUrEvryDayWEzl: Boo yay. FTW.
Wow, karma really is a bitch.
Outside of the fact she was a Hilltard of the 1st Order, she was pretty decent. This is sad.
…aneurysms are a terrible way to go, its the equivalent of a hand grenade going off in your brain.
mookworthjwilson: She switched to Hopey in June.
All I can think of is the post here about her “shoutin’ ’bout Hill-ry” back during the primaries. So, to me, she’ll always be synonymous with boisterous declarations of Hillary’s supremacy.
Still, sad news. She seemed like a fun gal.
itgetter: Hear hear! (Here here? Here hear? Hear here?)
As I suspected. This endless presidential race is giving America a stroke….collectively and individually. Maybe it’s time to pencil in Tubb Jones under Tim Russert on the casualty list.
Her Wikipedia article hasn’t been updated. Didn’t happen.
Kirk Watson’s whereabouts? Anyone? Seriously, this sucks - we need people with her energy right now.
…being the lone token black person and therefore being forced to defend Hillz insulting language toward African Americans really takes its toll on a person.
Something tells me the Ohio GOP will hire Dr. Frist to declare her in a permanent vegetative state, and have Tom Delay personally pull the plug.
NotUrEvryDayWEzl: “Hear, hear.”
After Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes, and LeRoi Moore, I knew a black politician was in trouble. But God missed and hit the wrong one, because Alan Keyes appears to be fine.
AngryBlakGuy: And Black women are particularly
at risk. I lost my aunt two years ago. There are some risk factors for developing aneurysms, and though not listed, I am sure being Black and not an Obama supporter durig the primaries was akin to smoking 10 packs a day.
Well, there goes the Ohio delegation. Queen Hillary wins the nomination. McExxon wins the election. Damn.
Jewdishoowary Square: This is why I avoid flamboyant displays of emotion.
carerer: “The Aristocrats”?
loudmouthredhead: If Karma is really to blame here, I expect to see Lieberman have an aneurysm at the Repub Convention that looks like something out of the movie Scanners.
My condolences to hr family.
Ooh. Tempting as it is to post “add one more to the Obama deathcount,” I really feel for her and her family.
This is sad. She overcame many odds but the one lurking in her blood vessel.
CNN just announced that she died. Very sad.
Well, CNN is now reporting her death. Rest in peace, Stephanie.
Of course some of you are blaming Hillary. How predictable.
Classy, wonketteers, classy.
that’s too bad. i got to know her a bit through a charity bball game my school does with members of congress and law professors. i was her bench-boy for the game, and she was totally cool. she had a great attitude and a larger than life presence. and she coached the other members to a win in triple overtime. she’ll be missed.
She was one of the few good ones. Rest in peace, girl.
RIP STJ
itgetter: Not any more. CNN…..we might get it right eventually.
Very sad. She would tell Repugs where to shove it. Often. She was awesome.
DemmeFatale: blah blah blah
No offense, but wouldn’t you?
she’s by no means dead, and her campaign hasn’t released any comment
DemmeFatale: “Well, CNN is now reporting her death. Rest in peace, Stephanie.
Of course some of you are blaming Hillary. How predictable. Classy, wonketteers, classy.”
Um, I think you’re hallucinating. Lay off the drugs or up your dosage or something.
i mean staff, not campaign
Wait, CNN’s saying she’s in critical condition now.
Too bad, she was a feisty woman. RIP!
DemmeFatale: If you are coming here for “classy”, let me assure you that you are lost. The rest of us come here for assholishness and jokes about buttsects.
Why must the nice people die, when the evil bastards live on forever?
InsidiousTuna: And the Cleveland Plain Dealer is is reporting her death.
Fucking media vultures should give people a little room in situations like this.
AP has retracted report of her death:
“EAST CLEVELAND (AP) - Kill the APNewsAlert saying U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones has died. A doctor says she is in critical condition.”
Gopherit v2.0: PD just changed their story on their site to say she’s alive, but in very critical condition.
She is back alive, bitters.
Dead or alive: Isn’t she dreamy?
shortsshortsshorts: If there were a just and fair god, Lieberman would be 23 hours into 24-Hour Ball Cancer. Instead, he’s killing off decent democrats.
The news link photo shows Tubbs Jones with two other black Vice Presidents of Obama, Kathleen Sibelius and Rae Dawn Chong. Are all three now deceased and/or out of the running?