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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlorida Democratic Congressional Candidate April Freeman Dies Unexpectedly-age 54, heart attack
Serious. Thoughts and prayers to the friends and families.
Heart disease is still the number one killer for both blacks and white women in the U. S.
Although this has been know for at least 25 years, so many still think heart disease mainly affects males.
Florida Democratic Congressional Candidate April Freeman Dies Unexpectedly
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-democratic-congressional-candidate-april-freeman-dies-unexpectedly?ref=scroll
April Freemans husband informed people of the sudden loss in a Facebook post.
09.24.18 3:39 PM ET
April Freeman, the Democratic candidate for Floridas 17th congressional district, died suddenly on Sunday night, according to a post from her husband on her Facebook page.
In a brief phone interview Monday with The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, he said that it appears that she was having a heart attack."
Freeman, 54, was set to face off against Republican State Sen. Greg Steube in November's election for a seat vacated by Republican Rep. Tom Rooney, who retired effective January 2019.
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According to her website, Freeman was a 2013 graduate of the Womens Campaign School at Yale and has worked in film and television production, specializing in development, finance and brand licensing. She has two daughters and two grandchildren.
While out-of-state ballots with Freeman's name on them have already been sent, according to a local ABC affiliate, a committee made up of country chairs will now have five days to name a new candidate to face Steube. who released a statement saying: "My thoughts & prayers are with April Freemans family in the wake of her tragic passing. I respect her service to our community and admire her commitment to the causes she cared about. Out of respect to her memory, next weeks campaign events will be cancelled."
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(21,646 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)And I will add that this is a rare instance in which a Republican running for office seems to have immediately responded to a tragic event in a respectful, appropriate and meaningful way.