Posted on 11/19/2013 9:14:45 AM PST by shortstop
SARASOTA - Sarasota Police are investigating the apparent suicide of Anders Ebbeson, husband of former Congresswoman and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.
Police were called to the scene of the couple's house in the 1400 block of Sarasota's Bay Point Drive around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Police and Pastor William Hild of downtown Sarasota's First Baptist Church confirmed that Ebbeson, a 68-year-old Swedish businessman, had taken his own life and asked the community to respect the family's privacy.
"On behalf of the family, Katherine's husband took his own life," Hild said outside the home on Bay Point Drive Tuesday morning. "They are asking for privacy, prayer, thoughts and love from the community."
"Anders has been suffering health conditions that he'd been attempting to deal with, which had been increasingly part of his life," Hild said.
Police Chief Bernadette DiPino said that Harris wanted the community to know that her husband was "no longer suffering."
The police chief asked that "the community respect the family at this difficult time."
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Yes, it is only speculation, but things would even be worse today had Gore been elected in 2008. For one thing, there might have been even more Islamic terrorist activity around the world and more in the US after 9/11. Saddam Hussein would still be in power in Iraq and very likely control a good part of the Middle East. Gas prices might be at European levels, and the US even more dependent on foreign oil due to the rise of environmental wackoism in a Gore Administration. And the size and scope of the federal government would be even larger. Some form of socialized medicine may have been firmly implanted already.
I don't necessarily buy your thought that two terms of Gore would have ruled out Zero in '08, but the logical 'Rat successor to Gore would most likely have been none other than Her Royal Thighness, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
SELFISH! Has to be a sin in their somewhere. He is a doosh to do this to his family! I don’t care if he was sick. No excuse.
What an ignorant thing to say. He was 68 you doofus.
It’s tragic. I remember that during the countdown, Katherine Harris’s office was deluged with flowers and greeting cards wishing her well. Hopefully that’ll happen again.
my mistake, maybe an obamacare death panel got him.
The thought occurred to me as well.
I’m joining in prayer for Katherine Harris and all the loved ones.
Prayers to Katherine and family. It’s bad enough to go through personal difficulties, but now comes the media to make things even harder.
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