Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) is being treated for bipolar disorder at the Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic, the facility revealed Monday in a statement.
The clinic said Jackson “is responding well to the treatment and regaining his strength,” but declined to say when — or if — the nine-term Democrat would return to Capitol Hill.
Questions about the condition and whereabouts of Jackson have been swirling around Washington and Chicago since mid-June, when he disappeared from Capitol Hill citing “exhaustion.”
Later statements from Jackson’s office indicated the condition was more severe, citing “physical and emotional ailments” the lawmaker “has grappled with … privately for a long period of time.”
The episode has sparked some debate between about whether elected officials have an obligation to tell voters about their medical condition and treatment status.
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The episode has sparked some debate between about whether elected officials have an obligation to tell voters about their medical condition and treatment status.
Particularly presidential candidates. So why was there almost no fuss at all four years ago about 0bama having refused to release his medical report? To this day, as far as I know, he keeps his medical status private; why is that not a major scandal? And yet people insist that two years of tax returns from Romney is not enough?! 0bama is a smoker, black, with two parents who died young, one of cancer; that alone is enough to be concerned about his health. What is he hiding?
Do you think he is planning an insanity defense when he has to run on the current administration’s record?