Mississippi Rep. Alan Nunnelee moved to hospice

Politico ^ | 1/30/15 | Lauren French

[DoodleDawg]

Republican Rep. Alan Nunnelee has been moved to hospice care following a seven-month fight with cancer.

Morgan Baldwin, a consultant for the Mississippi Republican, said in a statement that doctors found a new tumor in Nunnelee and that “no further medical treatment is possible.”

“After seven months of bravely fighting brain cancer and a stroke, Congressman Alan Nunnelee was informed last Friday that a new tumor has developed and no further medical treatment is possible,” Baldwin said. “On Monday of this week, Alan came home and is resting comfortably with family. The family continues to ask for your prayers and requests privacy out of respect for Congressman Nunnelee.”

[DoodleDawg]

Prayers for his family.

[miserare]

Prayers up for him and his family.

This is terrible news for any family.

May the Good Lord be at their side throughout the ordeal.

[miss marmelstein]

That horrible disease - especially the brain. Bless him.

[TBP]

Prayers for his family.

Was he just re-elected? But he’s been battling cancer for 7 months?

[Polyxene]

My husband was diagnosed with a GBM (brain tumor) after collapsing at home, and before that, he had no symptoms. He died 15 days later — it was inoperable and Stage 4.

[MamaB]

So sorry. Praying fo you. Mine died 2 months after being told he had liver cancer. It is still hard and he died in 2006. But, Jesus is the answer.

[BatGuano]

He will be blessed in Heaven. Prayers for all he leaves here on Earth.

[Reno89519]

Prayers for his family. Was he just re-elected? But he’s been battling cancer for 7 months?

My thoughts exactly. Where was some common sense (okay, politician involved, so none) to resign. Now the state is not represented and will have to get a temporary member and pay for a new election. What a waste.

[.45 Long Colt]

When Trent Lott resigned, we had a hotly contested special election for that seat and ended up with Travis Childers, an ignorant Rat. He served a few months and then won a full term.

[Maudeen]

I believe in miracles. . .in Jesus Name. Prayers for him and his family.

[vetvetdoug]

Nunnelee has been sick for over a year. We haven't had representation that long. Several times I have called his office about some national problems knowing all the while I was just spinning my wheels.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Can Mississippi find a decent replacement or only a GOPe Cochran clone? Those there still fuming from last year best start planning accordingly.

[miserare]

So sorry for your loss. May your memories of him sustain you.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“we had a hotly contested special election for that seat and ended up with Travis Childers, an ignorant Rat. “

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I am now officially concerned that something similar may happen again. The special election in MS-01 will feature a “jungle primary” (with everyone running on the same ballot irrespective of party) and, if no one gets 50%+1, the top-two vote-getters go on to a run-off. So far, about a dozen Republicans, many of them prominent in their home areas, have filed to run, and not a single Democrat has filed. The filing deadline is 8 days away (March 27), and if two, and only two Democrats (say, ex-Congressman Childress and a black Democrat officeholder with decent name-ID) file to run at the last minute, the likeliest scenario will be tht the two Democrats will make the run-off, thus guaranteeing that a Democrat wins the special election and serves in Congress until January 2017.

And if no Democrat files to run, then two Republicans will make the run-off, and there’s the risk that one of them will be a Thad Cochran-type RINO that will win the general by getting the lion’s share of the Democrat vote (a far easier task in the general than in a GOP primary, since Democrats don’t have to become Republicans for a day to cast a vote for the RINO).

I hope that MS-01 dodges the bullet this time, but even if it does, Mississippi needs to change the riles for special electins so that regular party primaries with run-offs (as in every other election in MS) are held and voters get a choice between the Republican winner and tbe Democrat winner (plus minor-party candidates, if any) in the general. Sure, it would be a bit more expensive than the current “jungle-primary-and-run-off system), given that there would be an additional round of voting, but it would avoid anomalies such as the election of a Democrat opposed by most district voters or of a RINO opposed by most of the district’s Republican voters.

[campaignPete R-CT]

reminding me that in CT, a system which nominates candidates via convention with no guaranteed primary ... was found in violation of the federal constitution.

yet, states such as NY use such a system in special elections. inconsistent.

http://articles.courant.com/2002-08-07/news/0208070975_1_primaries-district-judge-peter-dorsey-challengers

[AuH2ORepublican]

OK, the filing deadline passed, and only one Democrat filed (and it wasn’t Childress). Hopefully two conservatives make the run-off and we don’t have a general in which a RINO gets elected by getting votes from Democrats, RINOs, fooled conservatives, and hometown voters.

Here are the candidates:

District 1 - SPECIAL ELECTION - Primary May 12, 2015 - Runoff June 2, 2015:
FILING DEADLINE: March 27, 2015
[ Alan Nunnelee (R)* - Died February 6, 2015. ]
Boyce Adams (R) - Software Executive & ‘11 PSC Candidate
Sam Adcock (R) - Businessman & Ex-Congressional Aide
Nancy Collins (R) - State Sen., Nurse & Speech Therapist
Ed “Doc” Holliday (R) - Dentist & Tea Party Activist
Starner Jones (R) - Emergency Room Physician
Trent Kelly (R) - Alcorn County Prosecuting Attorney
Chip Mills (R) - Itawamba County Prosecuting Attorney
Greg Pirkle (R) - Attorney
Henry Ross (R) - Ex-Eupora Mayor, Ex-Circuit Court Judge, Attorney, Navy Veteran & ‘10/’12 Candidate
Daniel Sparks (R) - Attorney & Accountant
Mike Tagert (R) - State Transportation Commissioner, Economic Development Executive & USMC Veteran
Quentin Whitwell (R) - Ex-Jackson City Councilor & Attorney
Walter Zinn Jr. (D) - City of Jackson Government Affairs Director, Political Consultant & Attorney

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’m trying to fathom why 2 of those candidates are from Jackson (including the lone Democrat). That’s not within the 1st.

I wish I knew which candidates hail from the corrupt Haley/ThadtheCad RINO wing and from the McDonald Tea Party one. I don’t know if McDonald has made an endorsement yet here.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Excuse me, McDaniel, not McDonald wing.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Yeah, I was going to say, McDonald’s doesn’t serve wings, only chicken nuggets. : p

[Impy]

It doesn’t that appear that McDowell, he of the golden arcs, knows who to endorse yet.

http://yallpolitics.com/index.php/yp/post/40686/

State Sen. Nancy Collins sounds like a RINO from her website.

Ed “Doc” Holliday, a dentist, based on his name and occupation is probably the silly candidate whom some people will insist we “must” back. “Washington is sick, and Doc Holliday has the cure!” I guess Washington needs some teeth pulled!!! (The guy might be fine or even good but the song sounds similar)