[SAJ]

Prayers to his family, fine, but anyone who considers that he was -- IN ANY SENSE -- a public ''servant'', is inhaling a whole lot of THC and possibly even crack cocaine.

I cheer for NO man's death, but Westfall was a pompous and arrogant executor of the assorted Lefty and Union agenda. May have been a nice chap, but publicly and politically, the man was filth.

The only lesson to be learned here is -- bad back, surgeon required: get it done on an outpatient basis.

My father died from a staph infection contracted in the very same hospital that Westfall did.

Learn the lesson, my good FReeper friends!

[StarCMC]

I had heard that he had gotten the staph infection through the injections he got in his back for his pain before he entered the hospital. I did not like Westfall's politics or his agendas, but my prayers go out for his family who loved him.

[neverdem]

You have my sincere condolences regarding your father. I don't know how long ago this happened, and I don't what the statute of limitations regarding malpractice are where this happened. But if there was an obvious change in vital signs, especially spike of fever and they didn't almost simultaneously crack open the cast and obtain blood and urine cultures as well as chest X-ray ASAP, there might be grounds for malpractice. A had an adverse drug reaction happen to me that was missed by Army docs. It screwed up my career. I hope this doesn't open up old wounds but I hate malpractice.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

In the last few years, Westfall and his union friends on the County Council have made doing business in St. Louis County a nightmare. We have a heating & cooling business and now need permits for the most basic and simple repairs and are required to have journeyman workers for very simple work. It has gotten to the point that many municipalities are overriding the county codes with their own simpler ones.

I sympathize with his family and I'm sorry for their loss.