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WHY DID THE COLD-HEARTED PILE OF CRAP CHRISTIAN GOD CREATE CANCER?
INDIANAPOLIS -- U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, a Democrat who was represented
Indianapolis in Congress since 1997, died Saturday morning after a battle
with lung cancer, her office said Saturday morning.
Her office said the cause of death wasn't immediately available, though
Carson, 69, had been under hospice care at her home. She revealed that she
had terminal lung cancer on Nov. 24, and had been on leave from Congress
since September, when she was hospitalized in Indianapolis for what her
staff said was a severe leg infection.
"Although her specific cause of death was not available ... Ms. Carson
passed away peacefully in her sleep with her friends close by," her office
said in a news release.
The death of Carson,the first black and first woman to represent
Indianapolis in Congress, came less than a month after she announced she
wouldn't seek re-election to Congress in 2008.
It will be up to Gov. Mitch Daniels to call a special election to complete
the last year of Carson's term. It will likely be at least 60 days before
that election could be held, according to Brad King, co-director of the
Indiana Election Division.
The special election will be the first for a House seat in Indiana since
1989, when Democrat Jill Long Thompson was elected in the Fort Wayne area to
replace Republican Dan Coats. He had been appointed to the U.S. Senate
following Dan Quayle's election as vice president.
Carson's staff said her congressional offices will come under the
supervision of the House's clerk until her successor is sworn in. Her staff
will continue to assist constituents with casework and other duties until
the successor takes office, her office said.
Carson was never one to turn away from a challenge in her congressional
career. She was elected to her 7th District seat in November 1996 but had
been involved in politics since the 1960s.
Her smile, statement-making scarves and hats and unforgettable sound bites
drew chuckles and derision, sometimes depending upon which side of the
political fence one sits.
Regardless of political preference, it has been impossible to ignore the
presence of Julia Carson in Hoosier politics.
Carson made her first run for Congress in 1996 after serving in the Indiana
House, Indiana Senate and as Center Township trustee in Marion County.
Carson was former Congressman Andy Jacobs' legislative assistant in 1965.
When he announced his retirement in 1996, Jacobs urged Carson to run for his
seat and endorsed her without hesitation.
"Instead of making speeches about balancing a budget and cutting taxes,
Julia simply went and did it," Jacobs said. "She did it in a way that
Washington should learn. She did it in a humane way."
Perhaps it was the humanity and down-to-earth demeanor that made Carson the
Teflon woman of Washington.
No matter what her opponents and critics threw at her, nothing stuck, and
she had the respect of Democrats and Republicans.
"She was on Air Force One, and I went back to have a visit with her,"
President George W. Bush said in 2005. "If you've never had a visit with
Julia, she's got a lot of wisdom. She's not afraid to speak her mind. She
kind of reminds me of my mother."
Going against Bush, Carson was always against the war in Iraq. She also
advocated people taking pride in themselves and in their community.
"I think the more we amplify the positive side of a community, the positive
side of African Americans, perhaps it will somehow penetrate to the criminal
element of our city," Carson said.
Carson's health troubles didn't keep her constituents from voting for her,
even though a heart attack kept her from being sworn in on time when she was
first elected to Congress.
She was too ill to travel and missed votes in Washington because of that in
2004. Not long after her 2004 illness, Carson responded to health questions.
"The doctor checked my heart. It's great. They checked my blood pressure --
great. Diabetes -- where it ought to be. Asthma -- where it ought to be, and
I'm just fine," Carson said at the time.
In September, she was hospitalized in Indianapolis for more than a week for
what her office said was an infection near where a leg vein was removed in
January 1997 when she underwent double heart bypass surgery -- weeks after
she was first elected to the U.S. House.
She never returned to Washington after the September hospitalization. Her
office said she went to a rehabilitation facility after being released from
the hospital. In November, she announced she had terminal cancer, saying
doctors made the cancer diagnosis after treating the leg ailment.
She also indicated in November that she had been previously diagnosed with
cancer, but that it had gone into remission.
"It had gone into remission years before, but it was back with a terminal
vengeance," Carson said in the November statement, which did not disclose
the date of her initial diagnosis.
INDIANAPOLIS -- U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, a Democrat who was represented
Indianapolis in Congress since 1997, died Saturday morning after a battle
with lung cancer, her office said Saturday morning.
Her office said the cause of death wasn't immediately available, though
Carson, 69, had been under hospice care at her home. She revealed that she
had terminal lung cancer on Nov. 24, and had been on leave from Congress
since September, when she was hospitalized in Indianapolis for what her
staff said was a severe leg infection.
"Although her specific cause of death was not available ... Ms. Carson
passed away peacefully in her sleep with her friends close by," her office
said in a news release.
The death of Carson,the first black and first woman to represent
Indianapolis in Congress, came less than a month after she announced she
wouldn't seek re-election to Congress in 2008.
It will be up to Gov. Mitch Daniels to call a special election to complete
the last year of Carson's term. It will likely be at least 60 days before
that election could be held, according to Brad King, co-director of the
Indiana Election Division.
The special election will be the first for a House seat in Indiana since
1989, when Democrat Jill Long Thompson was elected in the Fort Wayne area to
replace Republican Dan Coats. He had been appointed to the U.S. Senate
following Dan Quayle's election as vice president.
Carson's staff said her congressional offices will come under the
supervision of the House's clerk until her successor is sworn in. Her staff
will continue to assist constituents with casework and other duties until
the successor takes office, her office said.
Carson was never one to turn away from a challenge in her congressional
career. She was elected to her 7th District seat in November 1996 but had
been involved in politics since the 1960s.
Her smile, statement-making scarves and hats and unforgettable sound bites
drew chuckles and derision, sometimes depending upon which side of the
political fence one sits.
Regardless of political preference, it has been impossible to ignore the
presence of Julia Carson in Hoosier politics.
Carson made her first run for Congress in 1996 after serving in the Indiana
House, Indiana Senate and as Center Township trustee in Marion County.
Carson was former Congressman Andy Jacobs' legislative assistant in 1965.
When he announced his retirement in 1996, Jacobs urged Carson to run for his
seat and endorsed her without hesitation.
"Instead of making speeches about balancing a budget and cutting taxes,
Julia simply went and did it," Jacobs said. "She did it in a way that
Washington should learn. She did it in a humane way."
Perhaps it was the humanity and down-to-earth demeanor that made Carson the
Teflon woman of Washington.
No matter what her opponents and critics threw at her, nothing stuck, and
she had the respect of Democrats and Republicans.
"She was on Air Force One, and I went back to have a visit with her,"
President George W. Bush said in 2005. "If you've never had a visit with
Julia, she's got a lot of wisdom. She's not afraid to speak her mind. She
kind of reminds me of my mother."
Going against Bush, Carson was always against the war in Iraq. She also
advocated people taking pride in themselves and in their community.
"I think the more we amplify the positive side of a community, the positive
side of African Americans, perhaps it will somehow penetrate to the criminal
element of our city," Carson said.
Carson's health troubles didn't keep her constituents from voting for her,
even though a heart attack kept her from being sworn in on time when she was
first elected to Congress.
She was too ill to travel and missed votes in Washington because of that in
2004. Not long after her 2004 illness, Carson responded to health questions.
"The doctor checked my heart. It's great. They checked my blood pressure --
great. Diabetes -- where it ought to be. Asthma -- where it ought to be, and
I'm just fine," Carson said at the time.
In September, she was hospitalized in Indianapolis for more than a week for
what her office said was an infection near where a leg vein was removed in
January 1997 when she underwent double heart bypass surgery -- weeks after
she was first elected to the U.S. House.
She never returned to Washington after the September hospitalization. Her
office said she went to a rehabilitation facility after being released from
the hospital. In November, she announced she had terminal cancer, saying
doctors made the cancer diagnosis after treating the leg ailment.
She also indicated in November that she had been previously diagnosed with
cancer, but that it had gone into remission.
"It had gone into remission years before, but it was back with a terminal
vengeance," Carson said in the November statement, which did not disclose
the date of her initial diagnosis.
