GOP Rep. Ron Wright Dies From COVID-19 | Talking Points Memo

67-year-old Rep. Ron Wright (R-TX) died from COVID-19 on Sunday night, according to Fox News and the Dallas Morning News. He is the first sitting congressman to pass away from the virus.


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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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Fake news? Another hoax? I think not.

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Tots and pears.

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The Chinese flu is a bitch. RIP.

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May he Rest In Peace. I hope, but do not expect, that his death will be a sobering example to his colleagues on the Republican side of the house.

I’m struck by the fact that this is the first I’ve heard of his illness. I wonder how many other Republican congresspeople or staffers have been ill. Dem reps announce right way- although I’m not confident we’re getting a full tally on staffers- while GQP’s policy of covid denial means they avoid making any announcement unless the have to.

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So…any fantastically ironical public statements from this guy? I mean, he’s a Texas Repug who died from the Chinese Virus. They have to be out there.

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I shudder to think what kind of right-wing idiot will run in the special election to fill his seat.

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No snark. That bug is out there and it can kill anyone. I know Joe and his people are on it. Stay safe until the cavalry gets here, gang.

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I don’t know what this rep’s stance or statements on Covid were, but I have a hard time mustering compassion for any Republican who dies from this virus, after all that party’s done to exacerbate the mass death and debilitation we’ve experienced.

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I am sincerely torn here. While this is just awful and I am sorry for him and for his family, there is still a piece of me that says, well, you play with fire you are asking to get burned. :smirk:

(Of course, I am assuming that he followed the GQP maskless crowd. Because, well, freedum…)

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Wonder if he got the monoclonal antibodies?

I don’t know this man and I am not going to assume he took unnecessary risks. COVID is a viral lottery. I know a friend of my wife’s who did not leave her home for 9 months until she finally ventured out once to do some shopping and was hospitalized with COVID a week later. Two more nurse acquaintances of ours (one of whom my wife had worked with for 10+ years) died from COVID last week. This is just an ongoing tragedy, and we are still stuck in neutral thanks to the complete disregard and lack of planning of the Trump organization. We are one week away from the GOP saying this is Biden’s pandemic now with daily reports on each and every death by FOX and “experts” saying Biden is fumbling the response.

Every once in a while I just want to scream without blame.

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Also was battling cancer, so it was the CANCER not the hoax.

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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”
– S. Clemens

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Breaking: man plays with dynamite, against all advice. Dynamite blows up, killing man.

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1,300 others in the U.S. also died from c-19 on Sunday, per NYT.

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Was he an anti-masker or anti-vax? Otherwise gloating over the death of another human being is really poor form.

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Suicide is always very sad.

Republicans will claim he was old and was going to die anyways of something else. Anyone over the age of 5 is considered old for this purpose.

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It’s not as if death was ordained only for the chosen few.

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