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InfinityGoddess
10-07-2007, 06:07 AM
http://www.dailypress.com/dp-now-davis-0906,0,5466473.story?coll=dp-features-columnists

Rep. Jo Ann Davis, Virginia's first female Republican member of Congress, died Saturday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 57.

Mrs. Davis, an outspoken social conservative and staunch advocate for Navy shipbuilding, had been absent from Capitol Hill most of the year as she struggled with a recurrence of breast cancer.

Christopher Connelly, her chief of staff, said Davis died at around 9 a.m. Saturday at her Gloucester home. "She was doing well and then took a turn for the worse in the last 48 hours or so," Connelly said in a voice-mail message.


RIP, Mrs. Davis.

blacbird
10-07-2007, 07:54 AM
A bad thing. Regardless of politics.

caw

Dawno
10-07-2007, 11:28 AM
Probably a good time to reflect, in light of this, upon what we can all do to help women prevent and fight breast cancer. A good place to start is with the Susan G. Komen Foundation (http://cms.komen.org/komen/index.htm).