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TexasTowelie

(112,202 posts)
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 12:13 AM Jan 2021

U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, hospitalized with cancer last year, tests positive for coronavirus

by Alex Samuels, Texas Tribune


U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, R-Arlington, has tested positive for the coronavirus, he said in a statement Thursday afternoon.

Wright, 67, who was hospitalized in September due to complications from cancer treatment, said in a statement that he’s been in quarantine since Friday and “will continue to quarantine until my doctors and medical professionals give me the okay to return to work.”

Earlier this week, Wright announced that soon after returning to Texas following the House vote to impeach then-President Donald Trump, he learned that he and several members of his staff had come into contact with an individual who had the virus. Wright did not attend President Joe Biden’s inauguration and said in a statement at the time he was “watching from my home in Arlington.”

Wright, a former tax assessor-collector for Tarrant County who first took office in 2019, said he’s experiencing minor symptoms.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/21/texas-ron-wright-coronavirus/
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U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, hospitalized with cancer last year, tests positive for coronavirus (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2021 OP
God Bless him! OAITW r.2.0 Jan 2021 #1
And He Has Now Died From COVID COL Mustard Feb 2021 #3
Ron Wright is my congressman. He objected to certifying the election. I have called his office a lot Shell_Seas Jan 2021 #2

COL Mustard

(5,897 posts)
3. And He Has Now Died From COVID
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 12:31 PM
Feb 2021

I will self-censor my comments; my Momma taught me not to speak ill of the dead.

Shell_Seas

(3,333 posts)
2. Ron Wright is my congressman. He objected to certifying the election. I have called his office a lot
Fri Jan 22, 2021, 01:43 PM
Jan 2021

He's old and sick. He should just resign.

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