Hello Negros sends its prayers out to the family of Stephanie Tubbs Jones.
(CNN) – Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives, died Wednesday after suffering an aneurysm, medical officials said.
Tubbs Jones, who was in her fifth term representing parts of Cleveland and its suburbs, was 58.
She suffered the aneurysm Tuesday evening while driving in her home district in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a statement from her office said.
She was rushed to East Cleveland’s Huron Hospital, where a team of doctors determined Wednesday morning that she had “very limited brain function,” said Dr. Gus Kious, the hospital’s chief of staff.
Wednesday afternoon, before Tubbs Jonesdied, Kious said that the aneurysm “an inaccessible part of her brain” and that she was in critical condition.
The congresswoman had a full day of activity Tuesday, according to the statement from her office, “including planning for an upcoming forum on electoral reform, scheduled for September 4, 2008, at Cleveland State University.”
Tubbs Jones, elected to Congress in 1998, would have turned 59 on September 10.
She was an early supporter of Clinton’s White House bid but endorsed Barack Obama in June after the New York senator bowed out of the race.
Tubbs Jones was a Democratic superdelegate and one of Hillary Clinton’s most ardent supporters. She was scheduled to attend the Democratic National Convention next week in Denver, Colorado.
August 4, 2008
Bill Clinton: “I’m no racist”
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Ex-president Bill Clinton said in an interview Monday that he was not a racist, but refused to revisit his primary campaign spats with Barack Obama’s campaign until after November’s election.
Clinton, who became embroiled in a string of controversies while backing his wife Hillary Clinton in her unsuccessful Democratic primary bid, denied ever attacking the presumptive Democratic nominee personally.
“It would be counterproductive for me to talk about it,” Clinton said in an interview with ABC television.
“There are things that I wished I urged her to do. Things I wished I had said, things I wished I hadn’t said.
“But I am not a racist. I never made a racist comment and I did not attack him personally.
Clinton accused the Obama campaign of “playing the race card” against him during the primary campaign, which appeared to strain his previously close ties with the African American community.
Some Obama backers bristled when Clinton in January likened Obama’s candidacy to the campaign of African-American civil rights icon Jesse Jackson in 1988.
Others also accused Clinton of trying to diminish Obama, the first African American candidate with a realistic chance of winning the presidency.
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