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Longest-serving US congressman Don Young
dies aged 88 midair on flight from LA
to Seattle: Republican Alaska representative
served his state for 25 years and filed
for reelection

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Posted By: Imright, 3/19/2022 4:10:06 AM

Republican Representative Don Young, who was first elected to Congress in 1973 and was its longest-serving current member, died on Friday, his office said in a statement. The 88-year-old congressman died while traveling home to Alaska, his office said.'Don Young's legacy as a fighter for the state will live on, as will his fundamental goodness and honor. We will miss him dearly,' the statement said.His office did not give the cause of death. Jack Ferguson, who had served as Young's chief of staff, told the Anchorage Daily News that Young lost consciousness on a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle and could not be resuscitated.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: F15 Gork 3/19/2022 6:47:47 AM (No. 1103947)
If you are 88 and planning on running again shouldnt you really be at home playing with your great grand kids? My how they hate to give up.....it’s probably all they’ve got. Term limits.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Texpub 3/19/2022 7:01:24 AM (No. 1103957)
People in politics, both male and female, have such huge egos they don't know when to retire. They apparently think that no one else can take their place. This occurs on both sides of the aisle. The gravy train must be good y'all.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Venturer 3/19/2022 7:17:33 AM (No. 1103967)
The article says they don't know what he died from. He was 88 years old. He died from old age. It's ridiculous that we have people dying from old age in our Congress. Term limits and age limits.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Right Republican 3/19/2022 7:24:32 AM (No. 1103971)
I first became aware of Don Young because of his impassioned speech on the House floor speaking against the passage of the Alaskan Lands Act of 1980. He called the locking up of "millions of acres of timber, oil, and mineral resources for a playground" as "the most asinine thing I've ever heard of." Now we're begging for oil from Iran and Venezuela, hamstrung because of natural gas sanctions against Russia, held captive to precious metals from China, and entangled with other hostile regimes in the oil-rich Middle East. Doug Scott of the Sierra Club pushed for the Act saying, "You may never be able to visit [the pristine natural wilderness preserved by the Act], but you can dream of it." Now, the Russians are talking about taking Alaska back. I doubt it's because they envy its pristine "Designated Wilderness Areas." Brings to mind the old saying "Use it or lose it." R.I.P. Don Young. Go dream of a United States where its citizens vote to put America First.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: varkdriver 3/19/2022 7:34:27 AM (No. 1103985)
1973? Sounds familiar. Isn't the year a certain long-serving [i.e., self-serving] Senator got sworn in in Delaware after his election in Nov 1972? Who could it be? Could it be...SATAN??? (love me some Church Lady) As noted, at 88, the cause of death is self-explanatory. Many lines of work have mandatory retirement ages.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: varkdriver 3/19/2022 7:39:23 AM (No. 1103990)
Sorry for the second post, but lack of term limits is why the great State of Michigan has been saddled with a Dingell of one kind or another for nearly 100 years. And no end in sight.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: minuteman 3/19/2022 8:07:54 AM (No. 1104012)
Served really should be in quotes: "served".
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Lake Dweller 3/19/2022 8:45:13 AM (No. 1104047)
Lots of Congressmen like Young start off good, but get infected with so much Swamp Fever they become unrecognizable. Many examples—and Alaska has its fair share. Lisa Murkowski is a prime example, but she got her corruption directly from her corrupt father, another Alaska GOP fraud. We need term limits. Yes, we would lose some good ones, but term limits would allow us to flush the toilet every now and then and get rid of the Maxine Waters types.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Rumblehog 3/19/2022 8:50:42 AM (No. 1104056)
Maybe Sarah Palin is available to take his place...
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Reply 10 - Posted by: lakerman1 3/19/2022 9:46:13 AM (No. 1104118)
#5, the Age Discrimination In Employment Act of 1967, as amended,allows most employees to work forever. That causes some interesting problems for professors who lose their marbles. It takes a while to document incompetence, so they are usually bought out of their employment contracts.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: NorthernDog 3/19/2022 9:58:31 AM (No. 1104126)
Diane Feinstein just got a promotion. She is now the oldest member of either the House or Senate. Quite a few more are 80+.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Birddog 3/19/2022 10:04:33 AM (No. 1104134)
Is it not strange....EVERY story about his death mentions that he downplayed Covid, then caught it. None mention that he was only sick for about a week...bounced right back to Life as Normal. (He was a Jeb/Kasich guy...not conservative enough for me on National/social/economic Issues, but mirrored the electorate of his home state)
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Vesicant 3/19/2022 10:11:25 AM (No. 1104141)
I would have had a medical emergency too if I woke up on a plane to Seattle.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: bigfatslob 3/19/2022 10:37:36 AM (No. 1104171)
1973 about the same time a lying, cheating, no account crook from Delaware showed up in Washington, he's still there doing nothing as always. Rest in Peace Congressman Young.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: LadyHen 3/19/2022 11:27:55 AM (No. 1104214)
Does anyone proofread anything anymore? 25 TERMS actually, not years. Totally insane. 1973... that is longer than I have been alive!! Yet another perfect excuse for term limits.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Halfvast Conspirator 3/19/2022 12:24:47 PM (No. 1104263)
Clearly died from covids
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Strike3 3/19/2022 1:58:34 PM (No. 1104336)
People can stay in Congress until they die because they are not required to do any actual work for their $174K (soon to be $200K) salary. People like Fat Teddy even slept in their chairs all day long and kept getting re-elected. If you aren't into fishing, Congress is a great place to spend your retirement years. It's a good thing that they religiously clean out planes after every flight because Don could have spent a couple of weeks in that seat before anybody noticed he was not breathing. The flight attendant must have noticed that his glass of Scotch had gone untouched.
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