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Does anybody know why? It is a little odd that he scheduled a press availability just before shooting himself.
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Indeed. Preparing a governor’s campaign is not the typical actions of someone so depressed they are thinking about ending their life.
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Jerry Litton, Mel Carnahan, and now this. Missouri has a history of strange candidate deaths. After a while you begin to wonder.
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There has to be something—in his personal life, in his job, or some other cataclysm—that isn’t being publicly released.
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Budd Dwyer time?
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I don’t know maybe it was an accident. We just have to wait for the investigation.
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There’s usually an interesting backstory when the auditor kills himself. Regardless, RIP Tom.
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Read Josh’s article on new information. Apparently this guy was jewish but not acknowledging it and someone was going to spill the beans. After all, what could be worse than someone finding out you’re Jewish.
check out the link i Josh’s blog which appears to have been redacted
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Sad to see this. Auditors are some of the most important public employees, and it’s a mostly-thankless occupation where you make enemies by doing your job properly. Regardless of political parties, I respect those who commit themselves to this type of public service.
They had something ugly about Schweich and they were going to expose him because he brought this up. I found an article from the day before he died: Discussion: Missouri Guv Candidate Reportedly Dies Of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound
Read Josh’s article on new information.
Apparently this guy was jewish but not acknowledging it and someone
was going to spill the beans. After all, what could be worse than
someone finding out you’re Jewish.
According the the piece linked by Josh on the front page, Jewish only if you mean “his grandfather was a practicing Jew but he wasn’t.” Which takes me back, because my grandfather died in 1938 for that very reason. Family converted about 1870, even had their kids baptized and went to church, but it didn’t matter: they were still jews in the eyes of everyone around them.
Obviously there must have been other factors, but in a state like Missouri I can imagine that the kind of whispering campaign Josh’s article cites could destroy someone’s career. (25 years ago, my sister was interviewed in a magazine article that mentioned her jewish ancestry; after the article came out, she fielded call after call from former colleagues of our father, people who had known him for 30 years without having any idea that his family had ever been anything but lutherans. And that was in cosmopolitan east coast circles.)
I know Missouri, the Jewish thing isn’t worth his suicide. He was a practicing Christian. There are lots of Christians here who came from Jewish families. There is something more.