Stephanie Tubbs Jones
August 21st, 2008
RIP: US Rep. Tubbs Jones of Ohio dies after hemorrhage
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio - Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first black woman to represent Ohio in Congress and a strong critic of the Iraq war, died Wednesday after a brain hemorrhage, a hospital spokeswoman said.
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Tubbs Jones, 58, died Wednesday evening of a brain hemorrhage caused by an aneurysm that burst and left her with limited brain function, said Eileen Sheil, a spokeswoman for the Cleveland Clinic, which owns the Huron Hospital in East Cleveland where Tubbs Jones died.
My condolences to her family and friends. I moved here a little over a year ago, it didn’t take long to understand how loved she was here. We have lost a great Representative.
This is a terrible loss to our community. Stephanie was approachable, open, and committed to the major issues of poverty and the disenfranchised in Cleveland. She would have been a huge asset to Obama in being sure that her people were registering to vote and then got out to vote. John and I went to her Labor Day Picnic when Kerry was running and the turn-out was incredible. But I expect that it would have been much moreso this year with a Black candidate. Her leadership is going to be missed. This is the second death in a short time that has had an impact on the Black community. Fanny Lewis from Ward 7 died a month or so ago. She starred in the documentary NO UMBRELLA, a story of her district during the ‘04 election. The machines were not working; she called at 9:30am and they did not arrive until 3:30pm. There are no words…Weezie