Arlen Specter, 82, dies of cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma in his home. The former longest-serving Senator from Pennsylvania spent over 3 decades in the Republican party then witched in 2009 to Democrat He was elected to five six-year terms starting in 1980. He started his career has a lawyer for the Warren Commission.
He lost his Democratic reelection bid to primary to Joe Sestak.

I met the Senator at this Rally for Obamacare.
He looked very frail then
R.I.P.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMNBPmK7pwQ
May he rest in peace.
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