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[Stephanie]

Harry Whittington appears in this 1980 photo in Autin, Texas.

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In this photo provided by the Texas Center for Documentary Photography, Harry Whittington, right, stands next to then Gov. Bill Clements in the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas, in this 1988 photo.

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Attorney Harry Whittington addresses the prison reform group C.U.R.E. (Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants) in the Texas House of Representatives in Austin, Texas, March 1981.

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Harry Whittington, left, is seen with Tom Phillips, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, in this 1990 photo, in Austin, Texas. Vice President Dick Cheney planned to break his silence Wednesday night, Feb. 15, 2006, in his first televised interview about the Saturday, Feb. 11, Texas hunting accident in which he shot Whittington, a 78-year-old lawyer. (AP Photo/Alan Pogue)

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Whittington considered patriarch of Texas GOP
By JIM VERTUNO
Associated Press

AUSTIN - The man accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney is an avid hunter and a longtime Republican activist who owns the downtown building where many of the party's power brokers built their Texas empire.

Harry Whittington, 78, suffered a mild heart attack Tuesday after a shotgun pellet traveled to his heart. He was in stable condition at Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial in Corpus Christi on Tuesday, recovering from birdshot wounds after he was shot late Saturday afternoon on a South Texas ranch.

Whittington, a lawyer, owns the Vaughn building in Austin, which has hosted Republican campaign headquarters for decades. President George Bush used the building for his gubernatorial campaigns, current Texas Gov. Rick Perry is there now and Karl Rove, the architect of Bush's rise to the presidency, used the office there as well.

[aquart]

1. Looking at the headshot and remembering the shot pattern...

I can see direct hits to the larynx, heart, interference with facial muscles (?), but the liver pellet? Where IS the liver located?

And I still can't understand how that man could be talking.

[Batgirl]

2. I think I read somewhere

that the pellets don't necessarily have to penetrate deep into an organ, but if they get into a vein or artery they can travel inside the body and lodge in an organ.

[CottonBear]

3. The liver is located high in the body. Just under the breasts.

I think it's on the right side but I'm not sure. I had no idea where it was either. Someone posted a medical diagram of the liver location.

[Straight Shooter]

4. "Whittington, a lawyer, owns the Vaughn building in Austin"

Live by the sword ...

[Dees]

5. Whittington: He's a lawyer and a Repuglican. Can it get

any worse. Oh yeah. He is and has been for years in Texas the Big Daddy Mac for the Republican Party. A certain political belief, set of mores and ethics and style which I find personally so repulsive it makes me physically sick to my stomach. I wish the man the best (health) but considering all he has been involved in, what he stands for and his steadfast defense of Crockett Cheney that's as far as it goes. No more no less.

[Stephanie]

6. well he's done some good work for prisoners' rights

I forget where I read it - they used to train dogs on prisoners in TX - something terrible about having prisoners try to outrace attack dogs. And he put a stop to that.

[Dees]

7. I guess if you stay in the law game long enough

eventually you might stumble upon some good. I agree, if he was responsible for stopping attack dog releases on prisoners..that is a good thing. Cheney calls him my good friend. That is a bad thing.

[Yollam]

8. Why should any of us wish him health?

I don't. And sure as hell wouldn't shed a tear if Cheney's robot heart blew a fuse and couldn't be fixed. These scum are ACTIVELY promoting a set of policies that they KNOW kill thousands of poor and children in this country, as well as the thousands they murder abroad. I have nothing but ill will towards them. They are evil people who go through all kinds of mental hoops to rationalize their mass murder as something else. The fact that they are more smug then Jeffrey Dahmer was doesn't make them any better than he was.

If I'm going to wish for somebody's health, I'll save my wishes for a poor sick kid who's sick through no fault of his own, not some flabby billionaire asshole who's squandered his life in the quest for power and money, regardless of who has to suffer and die for it.

[Swamp Rat]

9. Here ya go Stephanie:

:D