Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/14/2011 6:35:50 AM PST by Gabrial
Elizabeth Ashley Westbrook Turton (Ashley), Congressional Staffer - Salary Data
House Office of the Speaker 07/01/07 - 09/21/07 Special Assistant $ 28,246.51
House Office of the Speaker 04/01/07 - 06/30/07 Special Assistant $ 31,385.01
House Office of the Speaker 03/01/07 03/31/07 Special Assistant $ 10,325.42
(Excerpt) Read more at legistorm.com ...
She also worked for the ever stunning Rosa DeLauro aka Mrs. Stanley Greenberg, my congress critter.
We’ve all been focusing on the Congressional angle - but what if this was a hit based on her *current* work? the article in The Daily Beast says that the current theory is a car explosion of some kind.
“Turton was apparently getting an early start to her day because Progress and another North Carolina utility company, Duke Energy, were announcing a $13 billion merger on Monday.”
The even MORE spectacular possibility is that she was the victim of a BMW X5 fire. It’s the type of car she was driving - and they apparently have a problem with spontaneously bursting into flames!
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/13/106730/progress-energy-lobbyists-death.html
I was shocked when I googled the term BMW x5 fire, and reports and videos of the burning cars came up.
Progress Energy Lobbyist Found Dead in DC Car Fire (Obama's Vince Foster recedes from MSM's radar)
UK News Online ^ | January 11, 2011 | Jason Freeman
Thought you might be interested.
Additional info ping.
She worked for SanFranNan but Nan is too busy to issue a condelence statement?
They didn't miss it. They just chose NOT to report it. But you already knew that....Good find, Gabrial.
One good thing will be coming out of this. Heard they’re thinking of passing legislation on driving in or no, driving out of a garage because this might cause an explosion and fire that may take your life!
From the article linked just above your post:
“a key theory is that Turton was trying to maneuver her SUV out of the garage and past a car in the driveway when she struck flammable materials.
An autopsy has been conducted, but results from toxicology tests had not been returned late Wednesday. A cause of death had not been reported.”
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/13/2014068/progress-energy-lobbyists-death.html#ixzz1B1RISLvS
REM: a LONG time ago, I was a certified volunteer fire fighter.
NOTE: the pics in the newspaper showed a remarkably undamaged rear of that BMW SUV. The vehicle and its interior did not seem to be terribly involved in the fire. But I was not there, and we only have the one pic.
NOTE: striking flammable materials (say a lawn mower gas can) does not cause it to explode into flames. First it leaks, then it needs a source of ignition. The ‘investigator’ needs to establish a fuel, the point of origin, the source of ignition etc. IOW, why was there a fire? Right now there is only a theory.
NOTE: if gas fumes from a leaking container explode outside your vehicle, that doesn’t mean you’ll die inside your car. Once the fumes have burned/exploded, you may have a fire/damage to deal with, but you have a good chance of being ‘safe’ inside your car. Think of the videos you have seen of fires at gas pumps. The fire stays outside the car.
Note: what gear was the car in? Park, Reverse? Drive? Was the ignition on? These are questions for the CSI.
NOTE: we don’t yet have a COD. Smoke/ toxic fume inhalation would *appear* to be the only cause of death related to a fire, simply by looking at the level of ‘un-damage’ to the car. BUT ... that will be revealed by an autopsy on her lungs and toxicology tests.
*IF* she was dead before the fire — e.g. a cardiac arrest or aneurism — then her lungs would be clear.
*IF* she was unconscious (medical/ trauma/ other) then she would be breathing and could have died from asphyxiation, smoke inhalation/toxicity. that will show up in the autopsy/toxicity tests.
So:
(1) was she dead or dying prior to the fire?
(2) did she die from fire/smoke-related causes?
(3) what gear was the car in?
(4) was the ignition on?
(5) where/why/how did the fire start and propagate?
(6) why was she in and/or moving the vehicle at ~5 AM? (or had it been idling for hours after the initial ‘wreck’ occurred say at 2 AM)
Curious, but not sinister.
Tragic a family lost their mom and bride.
Did she know something she was going to reveal?
Perhaps Drudge and Rush would be interested.
All the news outlets reported Turton had worked for Dem. Rep. Rosa Delauro, but NOT ONE reported she worked for Pelosi.
Send away! It's all public information.
Pelosi mush have needed her out of the way pretty badly or she simply would have left her body in Fort Marcy Park. Nancy, this is the sloppiness that happens when you’re in a hurry. See, Hitlery did it right. The sheeple bought the Park Police suicide story. But leaving her in a burning car. It’s just sloppy Nance!
Bingo! You’ll never find the needle mark on a charred body. You have to admire nice work! That must be some Rolodex Nancy has!
As Al Sharpton would gurgle, “You da man!”
I have been looking at this story very closely. Right now, from what has been released, I think the answer to 1-5 is “unknown” at this point. As for 6) Neighbors told reporters she was leaving early for work. With DC traffic as it is that sounded plausible to me. People I know go in early and leave at 3:30 or so to miss traffic both ways.
It sure as hell is. Suddenly, no one seems to have known her.
Good find
The question is, what did she find in the wste basket?
I know you’re having fun, but ... Is there any indication her body was ‘burned’?
Judging ONLY by newspaper photos, It appeared the car doors and windows were closed.
The reports do mention that the smoke was so thick that firefighters didn’t notice a person IN the car. Now with the SORRY reporting that passes for journalism today, we don’t know if that means heavy smoke INSIDE the car, or INSIDE the garage.
Unless the fire was INSIDE the car, it is unlikely her skin suffered sever burns.
Fires burn via radiation, conduction, convection and direct flame contact. Only radiation would *APPEAR* to be in play here as far as skin burns go. UNLESS there was fire inside the car.
I really don’t suspect anything sinister here. It’s just really odd.
We have so few facts; I’d really just like to know how this played out.
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