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Former Capitol Hill staffer found dead in aftermath of early morning car fire
The Hillblog ^ | 01/10/11 12:23 PM ET | Jordan Fabian

Posted on 01/10/2011 10:21:32 AM PST by penelopesire

"Ashley Turton, a former senior aide to Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), was found dead early Monday morning in a burned car on Capitol Hill, her employer said.

Turton's employer, Progress Energy Inc., confirmed reports that she was the woman found by the D.C. Fire Department in the pre-dawn hours on Monday.

In a statement, Progress Energy CEO Bill Johnson called Turton a "valued employee" and a "dear friend to many of us."

"This news is very hard to take. I know we all will keep her husband, children and parents in our thoughts and prayers, he said. "Today is an eventful day for us as employees of Progress Energy. Ashley’s tragic death reminds us all to keep perspective in all things."

Ashley Turton was married to Dan Turton, the White House liaison to the House of Representatives. "


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: 201101; 20110110; 20110111; ashleyturton; billjohnson; bloggersandpersonal; congress; danturton; delauro; dukepower; house; news; pei; progressenergy; turton
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Hmmmmm......no mention of what caused the fire or anything. And what a strange comment from her progressive boss too.

The story probably bears watching...closely.

1 posted on 01/10/2011 10:21:39 AM PST by penelopesire
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To: STARWISE; maggief; SE Mom; Liz; hoosiermama; onyx; Nachum

PING!


2 posted on 01/10/2011 10:22:27 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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No mention of a wreck so that leads me to believe that it was murder and then the perp tried to burn the body to hide the evidence.


3 posted on 01/10/2011 10:23:33 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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To: LucyT; Alamo-Girl; SunkenCiv; fight_truth_decay
*ping*

VERY strange article, indeed.

4 posted on 01/10/2011 10:24:01 AM PST by hennie pennie
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Progress Energy was just bought out by Duke Power. Story broke today.

Interesting coincidence, and one that I'm sure will be looked at.

5 posted on 01/10/2011 10:25:49 AM PST by wbill
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Very strange...the article claims it was in her garage and then at the bottom of the article they claimed that it ‘looked like a crash’!

(snip)

“The Metropolitan Police Major Crash Unit and D.C. Fire EMS fire investigators are investigating the incident. Peringer said it appeared to be a crash but there has been no formal report.”

hmmmm..who crashes into their garage with such force as to set their own car on fire? Bizarre. She was also married to an Obama aide.


6 posted on 01/10/2011 10:27:01 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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Sounds like a terrible accident.

” Neighbors told WTOP, a D.C. radio station, that the car caught fire while backing out of the garage and that Turton was possibly rushing out to an early morning flight. “

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Former-DeLauro-chief-aide-dies-in-car-fire-at-her-948220.php


7 posted on 01/10/2011 10:27:45 AM PST by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: penelopesire

Strange.


8 posted on 01/10/2011 10:28:30 AM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want to be on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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“car caught fire while backing out of the garage “

Booby-trapped?


9 posted on 01/10/2011 10:29:52 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: wbill

Thanks for the info. Her boss sounds like a real sociopath in his comment...so detached and above it all. Wierd.


10 posted on 01/10/2011 10:30:00 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: penelopesire

Rosa DeLauro

arf!

11 posted on 01/10/2011 10:31:08 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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“Ashley Turton was married to Dan Turton, the White House liaison to the House of Representatives. “

Odd how many of the the ‘white’ White House staff are leaving or losing family members in unexpected deaths.

Of course, it could be she took a smoke break in her car, and fell asleep with a lit cigarette. If only they would let people smoke in the break room, things like this wouldn’t happen.


12 posted on 01/10/2011 10:31:21 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

You would think she would have been able to escape the car in short order if it just caught on fire though.


13 posted on 01/10/2011 10:33:40 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: martin_fierro

Geez with that pic a Helen Thomas pic would be an improvement.


14 posted on 01/10/2011 10:34:20 AM PST by dfwgator
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15 posted on 01/10/2011 10:37:10 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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They have to get rid of those in the know before the congressional hearings begin. How much stimulus money did Progress Energy get from Obama anyway?


16 posted on 01/10/2011 10:39:03 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: penelopesire

hmmmmmm indeed...


17 posted on 01/10/2011 10:40:15 AM PST by phockthis
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To: Wild Irish Rogue

Thanks for the link. I went and read the article. Interesting the way the first sentence is worded. Almost as if she was dead before the car caught fire.

“A woman found dead in a burning car early Monday morning on Capital Hill in Washington, D.C. has been identified as Ashley Turton, the former chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro.”


18 posted on 01/10/2011 10:42:51 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: martin_fierro

I’m not saying Rosa and Perry Farrell the rock singer were separated at birth. I’m just saying she’s technically old enough to be his mom and they look a lot alike.

19 posted on 01/10/2011 10:43:04 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: penelopesire

The news, nowadays, really isn’t. Not enough information in any article today to really claim you’re ‘informed’ about anything that happens.

Watching Fox and Friends this morning (first time I had to shut it off due to the positively estrogen-soaked coverage of the Arizona shooting) and saw the quick piece they did on the LATEST bird kill.

They piece claimed scientists said that OVEREATING was killing the birds, and Doocy to his credit muttered ‘yeah, right’ after Kilmeade mentioned the speculated cause. Even the newsreaders aren’t buying what their editors are shoveling any more.

Liberal politcs has killed science, and there are no such thing as journalists anymore.

A low-speed crash and a fire that kills the occupant? If the word ‘accident’ was used anywhere in the article, it is plain and simple speculation.

Woman dies in car fire is all you can say here.

I can think of more than a few elegant ways of killing somebody in a car. One would be to use a device that disabled the automatic electronic lock in that shiny BMW and then ignited a fire bomb that burned the occupants without blowing up the car.

I think I would have opted for using a tank of CO however. She’d have died in her sleep instead. I guess, however, if you have the moral indifference to killing another human being, you may not care about whether your intended victim suffers.


20 posted on 01/10/2011 10:49:04 AM PST by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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