Tom Lantos- DEAD

[topless_mike]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/11/lantos.obit.ap/index.html

[ralphbxny]

RIP Budday!

[scottinnj]

Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died, his spokeswoman said Monday.

Lantos, who referred to himself as "an American by choice," was born to Jewish parents in Budapest, Hungary, and was 16 when Adolf Hitler occupied Hungary in 1944. He survived by escaping twice from a forced labor camp and coming under the protection of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who used his official status and visa-issuing powers to save thousands of Hungarian Jews.


RIP Congressman Lantos. Thank you for choosing us. We are forever grateful for your service.

[Fezticle98]

Too bad. He seemed like a good, if cranky, fellow. Definitely represented his constituency well.

"In 2006 Lantos was one of five members of Congress arrested in a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy over the genocide in Darfur."

I realize this is largely symbolic for a member of Congress, but it still shows effort and drew attention to the problem. Hell, some of his colleagues were out getting arrested for much less important transgressions.

Lots of members of Congress dying this term.