San Jose taxpayer advocate collapses and dies while dancing at CA GOP party

[Newsjock]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A San Jose man attending the California Republican Party convention collapsed while dancing at a late night post-convention party and died.

Shortly after 11:15 p.m. Saturday, Doug McNea, a longtime leader of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association and three-time Republican Assembly candidate, collapsed while dancing at a party thrown by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield at the Sheraton Hotel, across the street from where the convention was held at the Sacramento Convention Center.

As party-goers and soon thereafter rescue workers attended to him on the dance floor, the party was immediately closed. McCarthy, who was there, identified him outside the closed doors of the party and asked the remaining crowd outside to offer their prayers and support. Rescue workers took McNea to a nearby hospital.

California Republican Party spokesman Mark Standriff confirmed that he died overnight.

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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Proving once again that you can't take it with you.

[petronius]

2. Preferable not to go at all, but if you have to (and we all do), then going while dancing

may not be the worst way. Pretty brutal for his dance partner, however... :(

[Demeter]

3. That's the Incremental Change We've Been Waiting for

[Taverner]

4. I hate to dance on anyone's grave that does not truly deserve it

(Yeah I'm talking about you guys, Ronnie, Phelps and family)

[warrior1]

5. wow, he was in it deep

Biographical Highlights

* Party: Republican
* Occupation: Nuclear Energy Consultant
* President, Silicon Valley Taxpayers' Association
* Member - Measure A (VMC) Bond Oversight Committee
* Taxpayer Representative - Oak Grove School District Bond Oversight Committee
* Vietnam & Cold War Veteran U.S. Navy Submarine Service
* Board Member, Coalition for Redevelopment Reform
* Author & Proponent "California Eminent Domain Limitations Act"


Top Priorities if Elected

* Lower Taxes + Lower Energy Costs = JOBS
* Nuclear Energy, Safe, Clean & Green
* Property Tax Priorities, Education vs. Redevelopment

[kestrel91316]

6. One of my great-grandmothers died while dancing at the election party

in celebration of the Herbert Hoover win in 1928.

Not a bad way to go, I suppose.

The Hoover thing eventually left the family regretting their votes. They became dedicated Roosevelt Democrats.

[Taverner]

7. Many Republicans went from Roosevelt to Roosevelt

Teddy to Franklin