Posted on 09/05/2007 9:33:21 AM PDT by Ramius
Former Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn dies
09:28 AM PDT on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
KING5.com staff
Jennifer Dunn
SEATTLE - Former Washington State Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn has died, her family announced Wednesday.
Dunn, 66, collapsed from a pulmonary embolism in her Alexandria, VA apartment and never regained consciousness, her son, King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn, said in a press release.
She passed peacefully surrounded by family.
Dunn, member of the House of Representaives from 1993 to 2005, representing Washington's 8th Congressional District.
On her retirement in 2005, President Bush said "She is a superb legislator and a strong leader who has stood for the best of Washington State's values and who has improved the lives of its people.
Dunn grew up in Bellevue and attended the University of Washington and Stanford University, where she earned business degrees.
She is survived by her husband Keith Thomson and their sons, Bryant Dunn, Reagan Dunn, Angus Thomson and her daughter's in-law, Jessica Dunn and Paige Dunn and two grandchildren. She will be missed by all.
I remember her. This is so sad.
OMG!! She was great!! She and Helen Chenoweth dead so young ......very sad.
You may want to Ping! the Washington State list.
I am so very sorry to hear this news. She was, indeed, a class act.
Ah, very sad. She was an excellent congresswoman. God bless and RIP.
Aren’t there WAY too many Republican Congressional types dying/resigning today for our comfort?
Yep. Including being a woman.
[snort] OK, fair enough.
Good grief! I met Dunn on several occasions - she was always gracious, patient, and well-spoken. We lost a very fine woman here. RIP.
Wow— What a terrible shame for the family. I met her a few times, I’m just very surprised.
Wonderful lady.
The GOP is losing members and former members at a rapid pace, either by resignation or death!
And the cream shall rise to the top...
Just announced on fox a few minutes ago, but obviously they are behind on this. All they said was she may have died, and I heard one of the anchors gasp when it was said.
Regarding her voting records. I just received an email from the local Republican party guy saying that he and Jennifer had been working hard to support Romney. I DO NOT want to sidetrack this thread - but I have been discounting Romney for several reasons, and perhaps I need to look at him a bit more.
Dont you find it a little shameful someone so soon would use her to promote their candidate? I don’t know who Dunn was supporting, but I wouldn’t let it sway my support either way. You can find good people behind all the candidates.
Here’s his comment that he attached to his email that had Jennifer’s obit. I didn’t take it as shameful campaigning - just one of those “we were working closely together and I just talked to her....” types of comments. Perhaps I’m too naive.
“I am completely shocked and deeply saddened by this news. This is a great loss to us all. My thoughts and prayers are with Reagan and the rest of Jennifer’s family. Jennifer and I had been working together on Mitt Romney’s campaign and been exchanging email and phone calls regularly right up until the end of last week. I’m so sad. — Toby Nixon”
Story:
Jennifer Dunn was standing in the back of the room at the Washington State R Convention in the Tri-Cities in 2000, marshalling the delegates for Bush.
The Pro-Lifers were circulating a petition for National Committeemen (I think), and were using their virtually trademarked Red Rose to indicate the list was a group of true pro-lifers.
Jennifer’s team put together a mimicked list with most of the same members, in the same order, on the same paper, with the Red Rose, but a few Pro-Choice people replacing a few Pro-Life people. This was clearly an attempt to confuse delegates into voting for Pro-Choice candidates on accident. It was virtual political fraud, done under her nose by her people, and at her direction, in my opinion.
Jennifer was a grand lady who usually did the right thing by Republicans. But she was Pro-Choice and always advocated making the whole party Pro-Choice, and definitely did not like having Pro-Life people in the party. She thought they were rubes.
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