Speaker Mike Busch Placed on Ventilator, Health "has significantly deteriorated"

Malleovic · Apr 7, 2019

Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Mike Busch has passed away at age 72

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-busch-health-20190407-story.html

EDIT: Since this was posted he has passed.

Allen65 · Apr 7, 2019

That Sun article reads almost like a eulogy.

PowPow · Apr 7, 2019

He's only 72, but pneumonia is serious stuff. Sounds like he may have gotten it inside the hospital.

rambling_one · Apr 7, 2019

I witnessed the distress my father encountered with pneumonia while the hospital vacuumed his lungs periodically. He survived it, but it sure is nasty.

smkranz · Apr 7, 2019

He's dead.

Steve_Zissou · Apr 7, 2019

PowPow said:
He's only 72, but pneumonia is serious stuff. Sounds like he may have gotten it inside the hospital.

rambling_one said:
I witnessed the distress my father encountered with pneumonia while the hospital vacuumed his lungs periodically. He survived it, but it sure is nasty.

Remember that because he was a liver transplant patient, he's on immunosuppressants and so for him, catching even a community-acquired bacterial pneumonia is as serious as it would be for someone with full-blown AIDS.

The fact that he's declining so rapidly and Hogan, Franchot, etc have been talking about him like he's already dead means that it probably developed into ARDS or something equally nasty.

EDIT:

smkranz said:
He's dead.

Yep, it was probably ARDS. That, or he arrested and they were waiting for family before they pulled the plug.

annihilation-time · Apr 7, 2019

Allen65 said:
That Sun article reads almost like a eulogy.

It should. He's dead.

Don H · Apr 7, 2019

smkranz said:
He's dead.

The only way he was ever going to leave office was in a casket.
I will shed no tears.

Sympathies to his family.

Unfortunately whoever replaces him will probably be worse.

cms1528 · Apr 7, 2019

Yep, he's dead

annihilation-time · Apr 7, 2019

Don H said:
Unfortunately whoever replaces him will probably be worse.

A lot worse.

Malleovic · Apr 7, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...44bf94-594d-11e9-a00e-050dc7b82693_story.html

Story has been updated with note about his passing.

East2West · Apr 7, 2019

He's now answering for his sins. Hopefully Charlton Heston got to him before St. Peter

MigraineMan · Apr 7, 2019

WaPo reports he has passed.

Malleovic · Apr 7, 2019

If the mods can update the thread title, that would be much appreciated.

DanGuy48 · Apr 7, 2019

It sneaks up on you. By the time I figured out something was wrong and went to the ER, my blood pressure was 200 something over 100 something, was having trouble breathing, 102 fever and I don’t know what the pulse oximeter said but as soon as they saw it they put me on a gurney and hooked an oxygen supply to me. I spent the next 8 days in FMH....chewed on my lungs pretty good.

Muleskinner · Apr 7, 2019

Please post where the internment will be..I want to make sure I have a full bladder before "paying my respects"

Steve_Zissou · Apr 7, 2019

annihilation-time said:
A lot worse.

It's either going to be some Cardin/Frosh-tier swamp monster or some young woke type with "new ideas" trying their damndest to be the next Stacey Abrams, Ayanna Presley, or AOC.

PowPow · Apr 7, 2019

Can they call folks into session tonight to pay respects or do they need to stick with the time set for their next session?

Malleovic · Apr 7, 2019

PowPow said:
Can they call folks into session tonight to pay respects or do they need to stick with the time set for their next session?

They can call a special session or extend it I guess. They need to elect a new speaker at some point because I can't see the position being unfilled until January.

Muleskinner · Apr 7, 2019

Steve_Zissou said:
It's either going to be some Cardin/Frosh-tier swamp monster or some young woke type with "new ideas" trying their damndest to be the next Stacey Abrams, Ayanna Presley, or AOC.

Traditionally the majority party delegate with the next highest seniority is "elected" into the position. I believe that would be one of the delegates from Baltimore. .

Speaker Mike Busch Placed on Ventilator, Health "has significantly deteriorated"

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