Obama Campaign Worker Collapses at Chicago Campaign HQ and Dies

suntimes.com ^ | July 13, 2012 | Lynn Sweet

[BarnacleCenturion]

Alex Okrent, a staffer in the Obama for America campaign who has worked with Barack Obama’s political team since 2004, died Friday after collapsing in the Chicago headquarters.

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After he collapsed, Chicago paramedics were called to the Obama headquarters in the Prudential Building where he was given emergency treatment. Okrent was then taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Okrent was a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He is about 29 years old and from Evanston.

[IbJensen]

Must have been caught looking in the wrong files.

[Principled]

29 yrs old? Just damn.

RIP

[Halls]

Must have died of Obamitis. It’s deadly and going around.

[biggredd1]

he musta knew too much, yo.

[Third Person]

...or was having an indiscrete relationship.

[haircutter]

maybe he knew too much????

sad for his family...much too young to be ended this way...

[biggredd1]

a guy workin’ to re-elect the communist died, but he still gets to vote.

[Mears]

Way too young.

Very sad.

[raccoonnookkeeper]

Jay Carney! Take warning! This is no place for young lads!

[nascarnation]

Wow 8 years of seniority with Team Baraq.

Wonder if he’ll get a Wellstone sendoff?

[Sir Napsalot]

He’s the ‘lucky one’, he didn’t get killed by ObamaCare.

[funfan]

Natural causes

[Psycho_Runner]

Bushes fault

[Psycho_Runner]

Bushes fault

[wastedyears]

There’s nothing very natural about collapsing and dying at the age of 29.

We can’t rule anything out until we see if there’s evidence of a cover-up.

[Sarah Barracuda]

He must have found out how much Obamacare is going to cost him

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Unexpected.”

[OrangeHoof]

Hard not to make a snarky comment but 29 years of age is so young that he must have either had a heart defect or had abused his body in some way (drugs, obesity).

Sad for his family.

[Selene]

“Okrent worked in the campaign’s paid media department”