[trumandogz]

The woman was a nutcase, my guess is that she checked out on her own accord.

[OldDeckHand]

Color me shocked - you have to continue reading until you reach the 8th paragraph to find the word “Democrat”.

[Lancey Howard]

...after she sent letters informing a number of prominent Austin and Houston restaurants that they had lost the legal right to use their business names but could get them back for up to $25,000 each.

The mailings, bearing the letterhead of Brees' law office and dated July 20, said Brees represented a company, Chicksports Inc., that had assumed ownership of the restaurant names because the current owners neglected to reserve them or failed to renew them under Texas business codes.

The letters did not mention that Brees was the president of Chicksports or that the corporation shared her law office's address and phone number.

Apparently she was a crook... just a lawyer doing what lawyers do.
My guess is suicide.

[kcvl]

11/08/06 - Mina Brees, an Austin attorney, lost her election bid, and it s speculated that her flap with son Drew Brees was a contributing factor.

New Orleans Saints' quarterback Drew Brees has asked his mother to stop using his picture in TV commercials touting her candidacy for a Texas appeals court.

In commercials running on Austin stations, Mina Brees had been using a picture of her son in the uniform of his former team, the San Diego Chargers, to emphasize her ties to football.

"I think the major point here is that my mother is using me in a campaign, and I've made it known many times I don't want to be involved," Drew Brees said Monday.

[Jo Nuvark]

[... (Democrat) Brees, had her business records
subpoenaed Tuesday after she sent letters informing
a number of prominent Austin and Houston restaurants
that they had lost the legal right to use their business
names but could get them back for up to $25,000 each....]

Having no heart, it’s certain she didn’t die of heart failure.

[Ditter]

Sounds like a sleazy democrat lawyer but that’s redundant.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[MarkBsnr]

***Mina Brees, a prominent Austin attorney and former president of the Austin Bar Association who was recently subpoenaed by the Texas attorney general’s office, died Friday in Colorado, a family member said. She was 59.

Marty Akins, Brees’ brother who is also a lawyer and former University of Texas quarterback, said he was told Friday morning that Brees died in Colorado, where she was visiting her son Reid. Akins said he did not know the cause of her death.

“It’s my understanding that she was at her girlfriend’s house,” Akins said.***

Ruh, roh. I also like the surname differences in the sons. Sounds like Ms. Brees had had quite an active life.

[MamaTexan]

"She organized other lawyers in volunteer efforts and played a big role in getting people to volunteer."

Democrat..... community..... organizing.....lawyer.

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[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

A “TRU LUV” match gone sour?

[leilani]

There was an ironic development concerning the scam she tried to pull on domainnamewire a couple of days ago:

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“Assumed Name Squatter” Gets Squatted Herself
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Texas lawyer threatens others but forgets to register her own domain name.

Yesterday we wrote about Mina Brees, a Texas lawyer who registered assumed names of Texas restaurants that had let their D.B.A.s lapse. She then sent letters (acting as a lawyer on behalf of a client) to the restaurants offering to sell them back their assumed names for $20,000. The letters apparently didn’t mention that Brees is the president of the company making the offer. (Mina Brees is the estranged mother of New Orleans Saints QB Drew Brees.)

Well, there’s a bit of irony in the story. While Brees concocted her plan to swipe these “expired” assumed names and sell them to their owners, similar to how a cybersquatter might snap up a trademark domain name, she neglected to register her own domain name MinaBrees.com.

Yesterday Austin resident Don Cruse registered the domain name and posted information about Brees’ tactic. At the bottom of the page a notice reads:

This website is not owned by or affiliated with Mina Brees. The irony is not lost on us.

Touche.
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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Brees received the Austin Bar Association's 2005 professionalism award for legal ethics and professionalism. In 2006, she came within 22,168 votes of being elected to the state 3rd Court of Appeals in 2006, losing to Republican incumbent David Puryear by 4.5 percentage points. Brees ran as a Democrat.

Considering her latest exploits, had she lived she would probably have been able to retire the award for "legal ethics and professionalism" from the American Bar Association. At least she'll be able to remain active Democratic politics. The Democratic Party supports full civil rights for Necro-Americans.

Of course, before I accept the news of her death, I'd want a DNA test on the corpse and a pin stuck in her folded hands.