[1] Hey Twitter, please get your Charlie Wilsons in order. Charlie Wilson, the singer, is not dead and he took to Twitter to say as much. “Fans I am alive and well!! However, my condolences do go to the family of the Ohio Congressman with my same name who did pass yesterday.” Twitter was going bonkers over the singer’s supposed death, but they seem to have gotten the singer confused with the politician. Charlie Wilson, a former member of Congress, did pass. And NewsOne sends its condolences to his family also. Hope that clears things up! ——————————————————————————————————————— COLUMBUS, Ohio — Former U.S. representative. Charlie Wilson, a Democrat who represented eastern Ohio in Washington for two terms after winning a write-in campaign, died Sunday in a Florida hospital, the Ohio Democratic Party announced. He was 70. Wilson had suffered a stroke in February while vacationing with his family and was recovering at a rehabilitation center, Democratic ...
Politically active Detroiters and other metro area residents convened on Saturday, March 9 at Detroit’s Northwest Activity Center for the general membership meeting of...
After being captured on audio last month making what many considered to be a rather lewd remark to a high schooler during a committee hearing, Connecticut State Representative Ernest Hewett (pictured) now says he has no use for female interns, reports the Huffington Post[1]. On Feb. 20 at an appropriations committee hearing at the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford, a 17-year-old female high school senior took the floor to reveal how the center had helped her overcome a snake phobia. After listening to the youth recount how she would also like to see other people overcome their fear of snakes, Hewett responded with, “If you’re bashful, I got a snake sitting under my desk here,” Hewett laughingly commented. Not only did the politico get a chuckle out of his comment but so did committee members. Hewett, who emphatically apologized to the female high school student he made the remark to, was later crucified in the media for his comment which many considered to be suggestive. As a ...
Marco McMillian (right) had everything going for him. Only 33-years-old, McMillian was a contender for the top office in his hometown of Clarksdale, Miss., a Delta city known as the birthplace of the blues. Though local reports suggest that a misread sexual advance or a possible romance between two gay lovers gone awry may have lead to the death of a rising political star. McMillian, an openly gay man, was hoping to win the mayoral race in his hometown this year. Had he done so, he would have become the first openly gay politician to be elected to any office in the state of Mississippi. But he was found dead last week on Fe. 27. McMillian’s body was found burned and beaten, according to his family[2]. Someone then dumped his remains near the Mississippi River.
