Some dreadful news about John Gideon, a heroic election integrity activist, and the driving force behind Daily Voting News.
MCM <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7102>http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7102 Blogged by Brad Friedman on 4/27/2009 12:29PM News About Our Friend John Gideon... Some troubling news came in last night concerning John Gideon, my friend, colleague, frequent BRAD BLOG guest blogger and the years-long publisher of the indispensable "Daily Voting News". Allow me to defer to the announcement just released by Ellen Theisen, John's partner at VotersUnite.org... From: Ellen Theisen Date: Mon Apr. 27, 2009 11:18am PT Subject: To John Gideon's friends Our friend and colleague, John Gideon collapsed in his home on Sunday morning where he was discovered by his family and rushed to the hospital. Medical staff told me last night (Sunday) that he was in "very critical condition". And today he remains in the ICU, with a preliminary diagnosis of meningitis. Brad Friedman and I have been in regular contact with John's family, and I'm leaving now to go to the hospital in Seattle, which is the best neurological facility in the entire region. Starting tomorrow, some of us will be taking steps to cobble together a perhaps somewhat truncated version of the "Daily Voting News" in order to attempt to fill his shoes until his return. But as you all know, they are very big shoes to fill. Please send your good thoughts to John and his family. I will, of course, keep you updated as I learn anything more. Ellen Theisen Co-Director www.VotersUnite.Org I'll certainly do my best to keep you all up to date here on John's condition as things warrant and/or change. I plan on doing my best to keep things rolling here in the interim as usual, as I suspect he'd like me to, and to help Ellen in getting out the DVN as well as possible during his absence, which we all pray won't be long. But thanks for your patience, in advance, if I'm slowed down a few steps here for a bit, as I suspect I may be, while doing my best to work with Ellen and John's family in support... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to newsfromunderground-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
