Stephanie Tubbs Jones Dead or In Critical Condition?
There seems to be some confusion on if Stephanie Tubbs Jones is in critical condition or has died. It seems it should be a no brainer. Why the confusion? I have no idea. This is the latest information I could find from CNN and then to read the article from the Bloomberg.com website click the read more link.
(CNN)Â – Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio — a Democratic superdelegate and one of Hillary Clinton’s most ardent supporters — was hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, the hospital said.
Dr. Gus Kious, chief of staff at Huron Hospital, said Tubbs Jones had limited brain function.
The aneurysm is in “an inaccessible part of her brain,” Kious said.
“She remains in critical condition at present in our intensive care unit. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this very difficult time,” he said.
Earlier reports had said Tubbs Jones had died.
(Bloomberg)- Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a five-term House member from Ohio, died after suffering an aneurysm yesterday, CNN reported. She was 58.
Tubbs Jones, a Democrat, was hospitalized after being stricken while driving her car in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, her office said in a statement.
Tubbs Jones was a Cleveland municipal court judge before being elected to Congress. Her district covers part of Cleveland and its suburbs.
In 2006, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Tubbs Jones to head the House Ethics Committee, on which she had served for six years. Pelosi said she was “tough and smart” and “will provide steadfast and active leadership in a non-partisan and judicious way, holding members to the highest ethical standard.”
Government watchdog groups had called the ethics committee ineffective, contending it was run by lawmakers who tended to protect members of their own party from adverse rulings. The panel had just determined that key lawmakers, including then House Speaker Dennis Hastert, didn’t do enough to protect teenage pages from advances by former Florida Representative Mark Foley, yet decided no lawmaker or staffer violated House rules.
Tubbs Jones was first elected to the House in 1998 and hadn’t faced serious opposition since, according to the Almanac of American Politics. The daughter of a skycap at Cleveland’s Hopkins Airport, Tubbs Jones earned a law degree from Case Western Reserve University and worked as a local government lawyer and then a Cleveland municipal court judge before being elected to Congress.
She was one of 11 House Democrats who opposed a resolution supporting the troops and President George W. Bush at the beginning of the Iraq War. Tubbs Jones also opposed Bush’s plan for personal retirement accounts within Social Security, saying they would place many African Americans at risk of “living in extreme poverty upon retirement.”
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