Posted on 09/18/2002 6:27:00 PM PDT by Mr. Morals
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:18:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Republican congressional candidate Bob McDermott today said the public has a right to know the medical condition of U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink, who has been hospitalized for pneumonia.
"When you're running for Congress, this is a high federal office," McDermott said. "I can tell you as a public figure ... you don't have that much privacy. We have limited privacy. So I am asking that they be forthcoming with her medical condition. Is she unconscious? She hasn't released a statement. Is she able to speak? Can she walk on her own? I think these are all valid questions that the voters before the primary election have a right to know."
(Excerpt) Read more at the.honoluluadvertiser.com ...
Expect the Democratic establishment to attack McDermott for 'insensitivity'.
Anyone else, besides me, expect Mink to "drop out" after the primary and have the establishment hand-pick a replacement?
That was my first thought, too, although I certainly don't wish any harm to this woman, liberal though she may be.
If she drops off before the primary, then at least the Dems still have the guy running against her.
If she manages to stay on the ticket through the November election, however, THEN the governor (I think) gets to choose her replacement, and there's a special election. I'll go search the SB website for the article (might have been the Advertiser) but I'll post it when I find it.
I do find it very interesting that we're only hearing from people who have talked with the family. No MD spokesman at all giving updates whatsoever.
Actually a Bernie scenario isn't too far off what she is already - a puppet of the most liberal portion of Congress. I sent her a letter on Campaign Finance Reform (I'm unfortunate enough to live in her district) and got a letter back thanking me for my support of her viewpoint (my letter was quite clear I was diametrically opposed).
I just think I would have addressed this concern a little differently. She's likely to Carnahan this guy on election day.
If the owner of a horse dies before the race is complete on Derby Day, the horse forfeits the win (the "Derby Rule".) The owner is gravely ill, winning the Derby is to make the fortune of her orphaned grandchildren. The gypsies manage it . . .
I sort of have a vision of this Congresscritter being paraded in a open car . . .
"Then," I said, "when she rode down the course on her gypsy cart," and a little chill came over me, "she was . . . "
"As herring, Kerry, as a gutted herring," my Uncle Valentine said.
"Then the rule was really infringed, and the horse should not have won."
"Wasn't he the best horse there?"
"Undoubtedly, sir, but as to the betting."
"The bookmakers lost less than they would have lost on the favourite."
"But the backers of the favourite."
"The small backer in the silver ring is paid on the first past the post, so they'd have lost, anyway. At any rate, they all should have lost. They backed their opinion as to which was the best horse, and it was n't."
"But damn it all, sir! and God forgive me for swearing in this holy place -- there's the Derby Rule."
"'The letter killeth,' Kerry," quoted my uncle gravely, even piously. "'The letter killeth.'"
Is that "medical condition" or "mental condition"?
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