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Feeling ill, Sen. Dole cuts dinner short
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision May 03, 2007 11:28pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Charlotte Observer |
| News Date | Saturday, April 28, 2007 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., became ill from the flu during remarks at a Republican dinner in Greensboro last Friday, had to sit down and then leave the event, her campaign strategist said Thursday.
"It was just a bug," said Mark Stephens, a Raleigh-based Republican consultant who advises Dole. "It happens to everybody."
Dole, 70, launched into her standard "Dole stroll" around the ballroom with a wireless microphone at the Guilford County Lincoln Day dinner. After about 15 minutes of remarks, she started taking questions but stopped and sat down, Stephens said.
She asked for water and tried to resume the question-and-answer session but soon told the audience she felt ill. Dole was led to another room.
Two years ago, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., fainted during a speech in Buffalo when she was suffering from the flu.
Stephens said Dole complained of the flu on Thursday but kept a full schedule that day and the next. She skipped a brief event Saturday morning but spoke to another Lincoln Day dinner Saturday night in Morganton for the Burke County GOP.
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