Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly, who edged out New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) for a top Democratic post in December before stepping down, died from esophageal cancer on Wednesday, becoming the third Democrat to die in office this term.
The late congressman made headlines in December when, with support from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he defeated AOC to lead the House Oversight Committee, despite reportedly violating stock trading laws, according to Raw Story. AOC would have been the youngest Democrat to chair a House committee at 35 years old.
Hilarious … the only way to beat the old Democratic party is to wait for them to die
There’s always plenty of gerontocrats to take over.
This is sounding more and more like a Lord of the Rings sequel every time
The gift humans had in LOTR is shorter lives, so new ideas can flourish, grow, and change between generations.
Makes you really want that gift in 2025.
Stole the house seat from AOC. Call me Gerry Atric.
DNC death numer three. That’s a Gerry Hattrick.
Replaced with someone over 70? You know the party’s Democratic
These assholes are so scared of losing power and corporate money they’re willing to drop fucking dead on the floor of Congress rather than let the new generation take over.
Fuck these boomer assholes.
Are the good policy choices here in the room with us?
/s
They would be if the DNC didn’t stranglehold the idea of “let’s use taxes for good things instead of war”.
We need to remove neo-liberals from the conversation.
Stay classy, telling a reporter to “kill yourself” for factually reporting on Connolly publicly announcing his cancer diagnosis.
Why does the party value fealty and seniority so implicitly? There’s a place for the ‘elder statesman’ voice to share institutional wisdom and tribal knowledge, but this man cannot seriously have had more vigor and energy to pour into leadership than someone under half his age…
delete yourself and kill yourself or not the same thing
Yeah I do agree in this case I think she meant delete the account the whole time. Now if it was from a republican…
Remember:
- your side always has good intentions
- the other side is always doing what your side is doing but with malice
lead to a vote gap in the Budget bill allowing republicans to pass it. Insane!
Gotta love how they push for old bastards to die in office to enable Republican goals, instead of helping the progressives who are on their side.
I’m sure its just a coincidence that it happens constantly.
Love is a word for it, yes.
So we’ll have someone with fresh ideas on how to stop Trump now, right?
Who will below retirement age, and support major refreshment of polices and politicians, right?
And actually do something this time, instead of thinking out loud and acting like that is the same thing as doing something, right?
…Right?
The Democrats are like ancient kings who killed their children for fear of usurping their rule. Now the enemy is at the gates and they have no generals, the few champions they do have were cowed long ago.
