{"id":1913332,"date":"2023-04-11T23:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T03:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-says-she-has-parkinsons-will-stay-in-office\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T23:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T03:46:18","slug":"dem-rep-says-she-has-parkinsons-will-stay-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-says-she-has-parkinsons-will-stay-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep Says She Has Parkinson\u2019s, Will Stay in Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-rep-says-she-has-parkinsons-will-stay-in-office%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1913332&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Jennifer Wexton, via Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Democratic congresswoman Jennifer Wexton from Virginia shared that she has Parkinson&#8217;s disease but intends to continue serving in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Wexton posted a video on World Parkinson&#8217;s Day on Tuesday via Twitter, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m doing well, and I want to bring about as much good from this diagnosis as I can\u2014including here in Congress. You\u2019re going to see me have some good days and some days that are not so good.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span>Despite her current condition, Wexton is determined to stay in office, as she expressed, &#8220;I hope to keep serving you for many years to come.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She clarified that her disease has not led to any cognitive impairment, but rather it affects her speech and balance, saying, &#8220;It has primarily affected my speech and how my mouth moves. It has also affected how I walk and keep my balance.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Wexton is among several Democratic lawmakers who have faced health-related challenges while serving in Congress. In May, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman suffered a stroke and was scrutinized during his campaign by conservatives, who questioned his cognitive abilities. Earlier in February, Dianne Feinstein, a California senator, announced she would not run for another term in 2024 after being accused of memory loss and cognitive impairment by her fellow lawmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Wexton, via Twitter Virginia congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D.) on Tuesday announced she has Parkinson&#8217;s disease and intends to stay in office. &#8220;I&#8217;m doing well, and I want to bring about as much good from this diagnosis as I can\u2014including here in Congress,&#8221; Wexton said in a video posted to Twitter Tuesday, on World Parkinson&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":1913333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[6244,5660,9256,7129,6680],"class_list":["post-1913332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-dem","tag-office","tag-parkinsons","tag-rep","tag-stay"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}