CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina lawmaker who’s running for Congress is having more surgery for injuries suffered in a highway accident.
Spokesman Michael Mule says state Rep. Katie Arrington was in surgery late Sunday afternoon. He said in a text message that he would have an update on her condition later.
The 47-year-old Arrington repeatedly highlighted U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford’s criticism of President Donald Trump as she defeated Sanford in a GOP primary earlier this month.
The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has said Arrington and a friend were traveling southbound on U.S. Highway 17 on Friday evening when a vehicle traveling in the wrong direction hit their vehicle.
The driver of the other vehicle died at the scene. The driver of Arrington’s vehicle also sustained serious injuries.
In another, calmer era this news story would have been of local interest only and, even then, more of personal interest to those who knew her than of political merit. Now? I do not wish the woman ill and hope she recovers but I confess to cringing a little when anything gains sympathy for a Republican candidate these days. Now that’s sad.
Sad because republicans aren’t stopping an ongoing crisis (in more ways than one) in this country.
I hope she recovers. But I also hope she begins to understand that people without health care would not get the care she will get.
If not, she can…
Could karma be making an appearance here?
Asking for a friend…
She is a candidate not a “nominee.” Who writes this stuff?
I call dibs on “Womp Womp”.
If she needs a new brain she can have half of Lewandowski’s remaining half … he wasn’t using it anyway.