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Virginia state senator dies from COVID-19 complications
NBC12 ^ | 1.1.2021 | NBC12 Newsroom

Posted on 01/02/2021 1:19:13 PM PST by Alter Kaker

RUSSELL Co., Va. (WWBT) - Virginia State Senator Augustus Benton (Ben) Chafin, Jr. died of COVID-19 complications on New Year’s Day.

“The family of Senator Chafin thank the VCU Medical Center in Richmond for its vigorous care and heartfelt support during his two weeks of medical services there,” a release said.

Chafin (R-District 38) first served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 2013 and was elected to the state senate in 2014.

“He had a distinguished legislative record and a very high rate of passed legislation. He advocated jobs in his district, particularly in the coalfields where the decline of coal has devastated local economies. He was a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, economic development and health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of low-income Virginians,” a release said.

Chafin, a Russell County native, was born in 1960. He was married to his wife for 38 years and a father of three.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: chafin; testspositive; vastatesenator; virginia
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1 posted on 01/02/2021 1:19:13 PM PST by Alter Kaker
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To: Alter Kaker

RIP, sir.


2 posted on 01/02/2021 1:22:40 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Alter Kaker

Another republican. And of course, they thanked the hospital. SMH.


3 posted on 01/02/2021 1:24:33 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Alter Kaker

So 2 deaths of Republican state legislators on the first 4 posts I look at today?


4 posted on 01/02/2021 1:25:51 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: Alter Kaker

PA State Rep Mike Reese also died today at the age of 42..they said “Covid complications” he had a brain aneurysm..also just read that Larry King has been hospitalized also for covid


5 posted on 01/02/2021 1:27:15 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda
also just read that Larry King has been hospitalized also for covid

Will there be enough room in the hospital for all of his ex-wives to visit him?

6 posted on 01/02/2021 1:28:26 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DesertRhino

A week after my dad passed away of COVID, the hospital sent me a survey. I wasn’t in the mood to answer “How did we do?” questions.


7 posted on 01/02/2021 1:28:34 PM PST by Troublemaker
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To: DesertRhino

Chinese flu is always the cause. Especially when somebody of any fame “dies” from it.


8 posted on 01/02/2021 1:28:45 PM PST by albie
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To: Alter Kaker

CCP has killed a lot of people.


9 posted on 01/02/2021 1:29:33 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: dfwgator

Lol


10 posted on 01/02/2021 1:32:28 PM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: headstamp 2

and thier comrads in the USA


11 posted on 01/02/2021 1:32:44 PM PST by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: Troublemaker

Unreal. Simply unreal.


12 posted on 01/02/2021 1:38:35 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Larry King is ancient and has had a heart attack and stroke. He should be a prime candidate for being taken out by Covid. If he survives we need to know his treatment plan


13 posted on 01/02/2021 1:42:17 PM PST by RummyChick (I BLAME KUSHNER)
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To: RummyChick

Don’t forget Soros, Carter, Raoul Castro, and other 90+ leftys.


14 posted on 01/02/2021 1:44:10 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: headstamp 2

“CCP has killed a lot of people. “

Yup, even people who drove their motorcycle into a bridge abutment, drowned or shot are dying of China virus.

Biggest scam in world history.


15 posted on 01/02/2021 1:44:26 PM PST by billyboy15 (')
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To: nascarnation

In theory, Covid should kill this guy:

https://pagesix.com/2021/01/02/larry-king-hospitalized-with-covid-19/

The 87-year-old broadcasting legend has survived multiple health scares in the past, including a heart attack, a stroke, prostate and lung cancer and diabetes.

He spent his 87th birthday, in November, hospitalized with a blood-flow issue.


I hope they reveal his super platinum treatment plan


16 posted on 01/02/2021 1:49:21 PM PST by RummyChick (I BLAME KUSHNER)
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To: billyboy15

“Biggest scam in world history.”

No, that distinction goes to “climate change.”


17 posted on 01/02/2021 1:51:35 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Alter Kaker

Another (R) with COVID. Have there been a whole bunch of (D)s with COVID I’ve missed?


18 posted on 01/02/2021 2:02:14 PM PST by null and void (When the press doesn’t report something, it’s because the narrative would reflect badly on the Left)
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To: Troublemaker

That was a very tacky and disengaged thing to do.
Somebody was not thinking.

That customer satisfaction survey is probably automatically sent out after every completion of hospital services, without regards to why the services have now ended.


19 posted on 01/02/2021 2:05:49 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ought-six

“No, that distinction goes to “climate change.”

We will see how much snark you have when the C02 concentration creeps above 0.05% from its current safe value of 0.04%


20 posted on 01/02/2021 2:15:36 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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