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The son of Fox News anchorman Brit Hume was going places. On February 21, 1998, he accepted an offer to join U.S. News & World Report. “He seemed very well connected on a workaday level with the GOP power structure,” U.S. News editor James Fallows told The Village Voice, “and for the foreseeable future that was going to be an important story.”Later that same evening, according to reporter Andy Humm, Hume showed up at a Republican fundraiser, also attended by Bill Paxon.

But then, writes Scarborough, “Sandy passed away on February 22, 1998, at the age of twenty-eight.”
The Village Voice reported the details of on Sandy’s “passing.” At 2:20 a.m. on February 22, 1998, in Bethesda, Maryland, Sandy Hume’s BMW was stopped for going 75 mph on a 45 mph zone. Hume was drunk and taken to a police station, where, in a holding cell, he was caught trying to choke himself with a shoelace. At 9:30 a.m., Hume was admitted to the city mental health clinic for psychiatric evaluation. Hume was released later that day, and he returned home, where he shot himself in the head.

“Hume’s death represented an opportunity for revenge for some in the Armey camp,” writes Scarborough, who recounted a phone inquiry from a Wall Street Journal reporter. “Someone in Dick Armey’s office just told me that Sandy got the coup story by having a gay affair with Bill Paxon. Both knew the story was coming out and that’s why Paxon resigned and why Sandy killed himself,” said the reporter.