Political Frailty

[Sir Creep 7,070]

I'll just paste the headline:

FORMER HAITI PRIME MINISTER IS SHOT TWICE . . . HE WAS RUSHED TO A HOSPITAL, AND HIS CONDITION IS CRITICAL . . . LAVALAS UNDER ATTACK!

SC

http://wapkonnjojanko.com/former-haiti-prime-minister-is-shot-twice-he-was-rushed-to-a-hospital-and-his-conditions-is-critical-lavalas-under-attack/

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

The former Presidentt of Costa Rica Luis Alberto Monge has died at 90 http://www.nacion.com/nacional/Expresidente-Luis-Alberto-Monge-cardiorrespiratorio_0_1600440047.html

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Rep. Betty Boukus, D-Plainville (CT), an irreverent and irrepressible presence at the State Capitol for 22 years, who defied a cancer diagnosis to keep working in Hartford and wage a final, if losing campaign for re-election to the General Assembly, died Friday. She was 73.

SC

http://ctmirror.org/2016/12/02/rep-betty-boukus-force-of-nature-dies-at-73/

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Former Scottish Tory MP for East Renfrewshire/Eastwood and Scottish Office Minister, Allan Stewart, has died aged 74. http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2016/12/tributes-paid-to-allan-stewart/

 

Famous for waving a pickaxe at demonstrators and for suddenly resigning shortly before the 1997 General Election. http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12332722.Political_career_of_Allan_Stewart_ends_with_shock_announcement_Tories_stunned_as_ex_Minister_quits/

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Not a good day for Scottish Tories. BBC reporting that Alex Johnstone MSP has died aged 55.

 

Only Tory to serve continuously since the Scottish Parliament was elected in 1999.

 

Link: http://www.scottishconservatives.com/2016/12/death-of-scottish-conservative-msp-alex-johnstone/

[Sean 6,337]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/times2/cancer-is-not-a-battle-its-a-forced-march-8pllq5t66:Update on Nick Boles.The tumor in his head is a result of a recurrence of non-Hodgkins lymphoma which is now at a higher grade than it was the first time he was diagnosed in 2007 and he also needs a stem cell transplant.Doesn`t sound too promising.

[msc 18,479]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/times2/cancer-is-not-a-battle-its-a-forced-march-8pllq5t66:Update on Nick Boles.The tumor in his head is a result of a recurrence of non-Hodgkins lymphoma which is now at a higher grade than it was the first time he was diagnosed in 2007 and he also needs a stem cell transplant.Doesn`t sound too promising.

 

Also, the tumor in his head is in his brain, by sounds of it. I think we all figured that, but the difference is crucial.

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Former Labour MP for Paddington North and thereafter Paddington, Arthur Latham, has died aged 86. http://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/former_council_leader_arthur_latham_dies_aged_86_1_4806556

 

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Latham

[gcreptile 10,979]

Former Senator of North Carolina Kay Hagan in intensive care, no specifics given:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article120136098.html

[msc 18,479]

Former Senator of North Carolina Kay Hagan in intensive care, no specifics given:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article120136098.html

 

Seriously ill, but not a heart attack and not in a coma, apparently.

[Death Impends 7,989]

I mostly recall her for winning her seat in the 08 election after Elizabeth Dole ran an ad suggesting Hagan said "there is no God", which, given pretty much any candidate for major public office in the US (especially the south) is religious, predictably backfired on Dole.

[JiroemonKimura 95]

Ken Hechler dead

[Death Impends 7,989]

That's the Advent Avalanche concluded then on my behalf

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Well Done DI. Still podium places I'm sure.

 

I'm going for not silver, not bronze, possibly lithium or less!

[Sir Creep 7,070]

Ken Hechler dead

Woo hoo!

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Ken Hechler dead

So after 5 years as the oldest living former member of the US House of Representatives he finally dies just 2 days after John Glenn who was the oldest liv

ing former US senator .Isn't it weird how these things always seem to happen together ! If he'd held on another couple of months he would have been the oldest ex member of the US congress ever !

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Ken Hechler dead

 

Daily Mail for the DDP/Generation Game: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4022454/West-Virginia-statesman-author-Ken-Hechler-dies-102.html

[Sean 6,337]

 

Ken Hechler dead

 

Daily Mail for the DDP/Generation Game: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4022454/West-Virginia-statesman-author-Ken-Hechler-dies-102.html

 

Can`t see anyone who had him in the generation game incredibly.

[YoungWillz 21,062]

 

 

Ken Hechler dead

 

Daily Mail for the DDP/Generation Game: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-4022454/West-Virginia-statesman-author-Ken-Hechler-dies-102.html

 

Can`t see anyone who had him in the generation game incredibly.

 

 

JiroemonKimura for one! https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8957-the-generation-game/?p=273880

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Kenneth Baker looks rough, lucid but rough, giving tribute to Jim Prior on BBC just now.

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

A list of Lords from The Lord of Lists

 

The following 20 peers are the oldest of those who have been given extended leave of absence from their duties in the Lords. It is possible that such leave is granted for other reasons such as holding a UN or EU political appointed post but considering the youngest of these will be 87 this year I imagine most of them are ill or frail, and remember there are many older people than this still active in the Upper House.

• Michael Sandberg (b.1927)
• John (J D) Sainsbury (b.1927)
• Gwilym prys Prys-Davies (b.1923)
• Jim Prior (b.1927)
• Beryl Platt (b.1923)
• Olive Nicol (b.1923)
• James Molyneaux (b.1920)
• Roy Mason (b.1924)
• George Mackie (b.1919)
• Betty Lockwood (b.1924)
• Philip Knights (b.1920)
• William Griffiths (b.1923)
• Robert Goff (b.1926)
• Robert Lindsay (b.1927)
• Alun Gwynne-Jones (b.1919)
• Asa Briggs (b.1921)
• Thomas Bridges (b.1927)
• Derek Barber (b.1918)
• Ian Paisley (b.1926)
• Richard Attenborough (b.1923)

There should be an obit for any of these.

 

Jim Prior can be taken off the list ! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38292549 That's 11 dead by my count

[CoffinLodger 1,248]

Former US labour secretary William Usery has died at 92 http://www.mooresfuneralhome.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/10365/id/4036543

[gcreptile 10,979]

Edwin Edwards, 88, lovably corrupt former governor of Louisiana hospitalised with pneunomia. But they expect him to recover:

 

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-louisiana-governor-edwin-edwards-hospitalized-pneumonia-060527223.html

Hospitalised with pneunomia again. This time the wife isn't sure when he will be released:

 

http://www.wdsu.com/article/former-gov-edwin-edwards-hospitalized-with-pneumonia/8495572

[Death Impends 7,989]

 

Maria Barroso, former portuguese first wife and co-founder of the socialist party is dead at 90 after falling into a coma after a fall:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/07/maria-barroso-former-portuguese-first-lady-and-socialist-party-co-founder-dead/

 

Her husband, Mario Soares, is still alive and currently on two DDP teams.

Pretty shocking this fatty outlived his wife,must be eating the same magical donuts Al Molinaro and Ernest Borgnine did

 

 

The magic donuts must have stopped working - Mario Soares critically ill in hospital.

[YoungWillz 21,062]

Given Piet De Jong didn't get a qualifying obit, he's at best a dodgy pick imo.