EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio(AP)
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones was in a hospital Wednesday but
no details on her condition were released.
Tubbs Jones, 58, was taken to the Cleveland Clinic's Huron
Hospital in East Cleveland late Tuesday, said hospital spokeswoman
Joyce Persuad. She said family members asked that no other
information be made public about the five-term Democrat.
Cleveland television stations reported Wednesday that the
congresswoman was taken to the hospital after police found her in a
car along a road in Cleveland Heights. Police Chief Martin Lentz
did not immediately return a message seeking comment Wednesday.
Nicole Williams, Tubbs Jones' press secretary in Washington,
declined to comment on the congresswoman's condition.
Tubbs Jones was first elected in 1998, becoming the first black
woman to represent Ohio in Congress.
She is set to be a superdelegate at next week's Democratic
National Convention in Denver. Williams would not comment on
whether the congresswoman's hospitalization would interfere
with that plan.
She was one of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's biggest
boosters during the primaries, then threw her support to Sen.
Barack Obama in June.
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