CA Rep. Robert Matsui has just passed

[MrScorpio]

http://www.house.gov/matsui/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday, January 2, 2004
CONTACT: JIM BONHAM
[phone] / [phone]
 
THE HONORABLE ROBERT T. MATSUI DIES AT AGE 63

BELOVED SACRAMENTO CONGRESSMAN, CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE SPENT FINAL DAYS SURROUNDED BY FAMILY

WASHINGTON, DC – The Honorable Robert T. Matsui (D-CA-05) died at 10:10 pm Saturday, January 1, 2005 at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Family surrounded the beloved Congressman from Sacramento for his final days as he battled a recent illness.

His wife, Doris; his son, Brian; his daughter-in-law, Amy; and his granddaughter Anna survive Matsui.

One of the most senior and highly respected Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, Matsui was first elected to Congress in 1978. He has been overwhelmingly returned to office in every election since, most recently by over seventy-one percent to his 14th term.

RIP

[JohnKleeb]

1. I heard, he was a good guy

[elperromagico]

2. Major opponent of Social Security privatization, was he not?

You ever get the impression God hates us?

[democracyindanger]

3. Was the Dem House point man on the issue nt

[JohnKleeb]

4. big time

and thats a big issue to me, I admit its rare for a younger person to be a staunch opponent of privatizing social security.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

5. Not so rare.

Big issue to me as well.

[JohnKleeb]

8. Good for ya,

I am also very pro union as well, I have a lot of infleunces from my depression era grandparents.

[elperromagico]

6. No, Kleeb. It's as much our Social Security Bush wants to fuck with

as it is anyone else's.

[JohnKleeb]

7. Yep you got that right but many our age support that crap

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Glad I'm an atheist

If I wasn't I'd hate God. Really.

[Tsiyu]

10. Well, happy f**kin' New Year.

:cry: Not quite the new beginnign I was hoping for, but evil works every day.


Don't hate God.

Hate the Bush cabal. Focus all of your rage and grief and sense of injustice on defeating the evil that arte Repukes....