The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman elected to the House from Ohio, died Wednesday afternoon in a Cleveland hospital.
Tubbs Jones was hospitalized Tuesday night after police pulled over her car and found her unconscious behind the wheel.
A Huron Hospital spokeswoman said Tubbs Jones, 58, had suffered an aneurysm that caused her to lose consciousness. Sources told the paper that Tubbs Jones died at 12:19 Wednesday after she was removed from life support.
UPDATE: Maybe not.
I don’t get this part:
Was she conscious but driving poorly and was able to pull to the side of the road after the sirens and then fell unconscious? Or did the police find her car stopped already with her unconscious?
CNN retracted their story that she’d died, hospital says she’s in critical condition
To answer my own question:
Wild-assed guess: she got an incredible headache and tried to drive herself to a hospital (or it hit her while she was driving).
What a nightmarish way to go. Your head explodes and there’s literally nothing you can do about it. That’s got to be scary as hell. Very, very sad.
She’s not dead!!
Hey, isn’t this is the member of Congress who took the fourth most trips paid for by lobbyists — for which she was named chair of the House Ethics Committee?
I normally ignore individual Congresscritters, but that particular detail stuck in my mind…
J.
Screw you, Jay.
SCREW. YOU.
Just following the local customs, Randy… the precedent set in the cases of Jesse Helms and Tony Snow.
Or are you saying that there’s a double standard?
J.
Jesse Helms was a racist of the highest order. I’m glad to see you defending his honor.
Defending his honor? Not in the least. Following the example you set on his passing, Tony Snow’s passing, and frequent remarks about Ronald Reagan? Absolutely.
As Oliver himself said on coverage of Snow’s passing, “it’s not a cheap shot when it’s true just because you like the target.”
J.
Classic Randy Brown. Repeatedly calls a black republican the n-word, but throws a tantrum because someone points out a black democrat was heavily involved with lobbyists. Now there’s a commenter with his head on straight!
They are now reporting that Sen. Tubbs has passed. To answer a previous question. She probably didn’t swerve. I lost my father to the same thing. People are lucid for all of 30 seconds max. I regret some peoples decisions but I can’t agree with glee like Jay when someone dies. So Jay, I may think guys like Helms were creeps and set this country back, but I don’t cheerlead their death. You are taking a certian amount of glee in this incidents, so I think you are a shit for wallowing in the mud.
Right, you’re defending racist Jesse Helms. Just to be clear.
“Now there’s a commenter with his head on straight!”
JWG, you [word that OW won't let us use here]…the extent of my perceived hypocrisy is infintesmal compared to the actual hypocrisy practiced by you, the Jays, and all the other right wing apologists/bootlickers/brown-nosers.
So, SCREW. YOU. TOO.
Apparently, Rep. Tubbs now dwells in a place no modern-day conservative will ever see from the inside: Heaven. May she rest in peace.
Sounds like Jay is defending Helms….
Sounds like Jay is defending Helms…
The Jays, JWG and others have a pathological need to start shit, then run off to their mommies when their shit starts flying back at them.
Them = tenacious shit-slingers.
Us = massive fan.
Get the picture?
Jay is being the double-standard police. It seems to me that he made it pretty clear at 6:23 that he wasn’t defending Helms.
You know, just to be fair.
Hey Randy, go screw. You don’t even know me. You’re nothing but a speck of dust in all the universe, so I had a good laugh at the notion that you’d be deciding where I would spend eternity.
Twit.
Jay, Randy implied that conservatives like you are going to Hell, he didn’t say HE’D BE THE ONE DECIDING that you and your ideological compatriots are going there.
The conversation’s jumped the shark a bit when we start talking eternal damnation for an entire political wing, regardless of who’s directing traffic.
Not gonna argue with you, Parthenon. I, too, mourn the passing of another person, but I’m not going to suddenly canonize someone simply because they have died. She appears to have been a “fox” (no sexism intended) who was rewarded for her chicken-stealing ability by being put in charge of the henhouse by the leader of “the most ethical Congress in history.” There were certainly more corrupt members of Congress than Ms. Jones, but “not the worst” is hardly a term of praise.
J.
“I normally ignore individual Congresscritters…”
Virtually every third post of yours on Wizbang is an attack on U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Last time I checked, a U.S. Senator is a member of Congress. You also attacked Senator Frank Lautenberg, in an NRA-related issue, in a Wizbang post earlier this month.
Hello there!
She was a phenomenal black woman, indeed!
May her loving soul rest in peace with the Lord.
I hope that everyone who reads about this very sad news story realizes that aneurysms CAN BE detected by many medical tests BEFORE they rupture.
Aneurysms do not just suddenly occur out of the blue. I hope that perhaps one black woman’s life will be spared because she read about this tragedy and made sure that she went online to research all of the risk factors of aneurysms.
Peace, blessings and DUNAMIS!
Lisa
True enough, rotter, but am I commenting on Obama’s performance as a United States senator? That’d be darned difficult; he only spent a few months as a Senator before he took on a far more prominent and significant job: presidential candidate. It’s in that context that I discuss him, not as one of
535534 members of Congress.And before you can say it, let me explain your next point: my referring to him as “Senator Obama” is merely addressing him by his proper title, the highest office he has achieved. That’s simple etiquette.
If you’d like to discuss Obama’s accomplishments as a senator, rotter, I’d have to do a little research first. But from what I’ve heard, it shouldn’t take me very long — apparently he’s done damned little of note.
J.
Hey Randy, go screw. You don’t even know me. You’re nothing but a speck of dust in all the universe, so I had a good laugh at the notion that you’d be deciding where I would spend eternity.
Fling.
Whirr.
SPLAT!
Now, geddouttahere. You smell like a damn cow pasture.
So, Jay Tea, your argument is basically that if you attack a member of Congress in the context of his presidential race, then you are not attacking a member of Congress? There were no qualifiers to your “I normally ignore individual Congresscritters” (like “I normally ignore individual Congresscritters except when they are running for president”).
You also completely ignored the part of my post about Senator Lautenberg.
That’s brilliant Randy. Just brilliant.
rotter, i just reviewed all my postings this month, and didn’t find a single one that talked about Lautenberg. In fact, the only time I could find my mentioning him was in a general lambasting of the incredibly un-democratic Democratic party, when I revisited the circumstances that got him on the ballot in Torricelli’s place back in 2002.
I also haven’t talked about the NRA very much, and certainly I don’t recall mentioning them in the past 3 weeks. The closest would be talking about the Heller decision, where Senator Obama (that great Constitutional scholar) said that he supported DC’s right to ban handguns AND he supported the Supreme Court finding that ban unconstitutional.
I think you’re a wee bit confused there, rotter. Hell, yes, I talk about congresscritters, but only rarely as such. It takes something extraordinary to draw my attention — like, say, running for president or doing something spectacular. When I first heard Jones’ name mentioned, my first reaction was “who?” It took a couple of reminders to jog my memory — “oh, yeah, the House member who took all those lobbyist-funded trips that Nancy Pelosi put in charge of the Ethics committee.”
The real question will be who will replace her. William Jefferson might be a bit busy soon, so my money’s on Alcee Hastings.
J.