Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., announced Monday she will not seek reelection in 2024 after receiving a new diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy.
Wexton, 55, was initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease earlier this year. At the time, she said she was “feeling good” and hoped to continue serving in Congress for many years.
But in a statement on Monday, Wexton explained she wasn’t making the progress she’d hoped for in managing her symptoms and noticed others in her Parkinson’s support group weren’t having the same experience…
…Wexton was first elected to Congress in 2018 when she defeated longtime Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock, ending nearly four decades of GOP control of the North Virginia district.
I don’t think I have a good answer for you, even having thought about it for some time this morning. It’s a common term in plenty of circles (my father was a coastie) but it’s also something I’ve seen used as vernacular shorthand to exclude. A motivator for my original reply was my desire to clarify the term’s use in this context, but I think I was clumsy with it.