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To: Psalm 73

Brit Hume lost a son to suicide, If I recall


82 posted on 06/08/2018 9:55:58 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: goodnesswins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hume

Hume broke the story of the aborted 1997 coup by U.S. Rep. Bill Paxon (R-NY) against Speaker Newt Gingrich. Another of the plotters, Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), scuttled the coup when he learned that Paxon, and not he, would replace Gingrich. Armey later disavowed the whole attempt and claimed not to have been involved.[citation needed]

Death
Hume committed suicide in his apartment in Arlington, Virginia. In the months before his death, Hume, an alcoholic, had begun drinking again. The night before his suicide, he was jailed for drunk driving and tried to hang himself in the U.S. Park Police jail cell. He was evaluated at a psychiatric facility and released. He went home and took his life with a hunting rifle after leaving a long note expressing shame at the previous night’s events.[1][2]


86 posted on 06/08/2018 11:05:49 AM PDT by LadyBuzz
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