Rose Cochran, the wife of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) died on Friday, Cochran spokesman Chris Gallegos confirmed to TPM.
Cochran was 73 according to the Associated Press. She died in a hospice facility.
The senator’s wife fell into the center of Cochran’s re-election campaign when a blogger who supported Cochran challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) went to the nursing home where Rose Cochran had been residing to photograph her in a bedridden state for an anti-Cochran video.
Three others were eventually charged in connection with the plot to photograph Rose Cochran. One of the conspirators, Mark Mayfield, was later found dead in an apparent suicide.
She was not the center of the caper, but the target of the caper. Center implies one of the conspirators.
rest in peace, mrs. cochran. you didn’t deserve the indignities you were subjected to in your most vulnerable time… condolences to senator cochran and the family.