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Posted on 07/06/2012 3:40:46 AM PDT by Zakeet
Nearly two months after taking a leave of absence from Congress, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s congressional office today said he is being treated at an "in-patient medical facility" for an unnamed ailment.
"Recently, we have been made aware that he has grappled with certain physical and emotional ailments privately for a long period of time," Jackson's spokesman Frank Watkins said in a statement. "At present, he is undergoing further evaluation and treatment at an in-patient medical facility."
Jackson took a leave of absence from his House duties in early June because of "exhaustion." His condition is now "more serious than we thought and initially believed," Watkins said.
"According to the preliminary diagnosis from his doctors, Congressman Jackson will need to receive extended in-patient treatment as well as continuing medical treatment thereafter," he said in the statement.
Jackson, who was first elected to Congress in 1995, is running for re-election this year. He is also being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly offering money to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's gubernatorial campaign in exchange for President Obama's vacated Senate seat.
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Well, his father, the alleged Baptist minister, did shakedown A-B for a lucrative beer distributorship in Chicago...
He is also being investigated by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly offering money to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s gubernatorial campaign in exchange for President Obama’s vacated Senate seat.
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Oh, ok. Got it! Insanity will be his defense now that he is certifiably “emotionally disturbed”. So, y’all leave the brotha alone; he be sick.
Probably caught something more serious than a cold hangin’
out at Man’s Country with his daddy and Rahm.
The law must have been closing in and he needed an out.
Looks like POS runs in the family.
The dude’s in rehab. In-patient rehab. Drying out and working on the first three steps. This is a moral, not a physical illness.
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My guess is cocaine and heroin withdrawal.
With a bit of STD as a kicker.
Three words: Antibiotic resistant gonorrhea
Reports say former Ga. Representative Artur Davis has been ministering to young Jesse. /s/
So I guess the congressman now IS a “certifiable” loon? Undeniably. Who knew?
I see all the signs, having had been one for a while.
anybody running against him?
He is in the middle east being converted to Islam.
He is in the middle east being converted to Islam.
He is in the middle east being converted to Islam.
I'm going with those guessing drug/alcohol rehab.
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