{"id":147240,"date":"2025-05-23T21:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=147240"},"modified":"2025-05-23T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:32:29","slug":"democratic-rep-gerry-connolly-of-virginia-dies-after-battling-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=147240","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia dies after battling cancer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/21\/gerry-connolly-dies-cancer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a>: &#8220;Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia has died at the age of 75 after a battle with esophageal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/politics\/i-had-no-symptoms-virginia-congressman-gerry-connolly-says-he-has-cancer\/3763096\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cancer<\/a>, his family said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt is with immense sadness that we share that our devoted and loving father, husband, brother, friend, and public servant, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly, passed away peacefully at his home this morning surrounded by family,\u201d read a statement posted on Connolly\u2019s X account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Connolly served as the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform until late last month, when he said he would\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/northern-virginia\/rep-gerry-connolly-steps-down-as-top-oversight-democrat-and-wont-seek-reelection-as-cancer-returns\/3901097\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">step down<\/a>\u00a0because his cancer had returned.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC: &#8220;Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia has died at the age of 75 after a battle with esophageal&nbsp;cancer, his family said Wednesday. \u201cIt is with immense sadness that we share that our devoted and loving father, husband, brother, friend, and public servant, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly, passed away peacefully at his home this morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147241,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147240\/revisions\/147241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}