Posted on 01/10/2011 12:30:20 PM PST by AdamBomb
Ashley Turton, the wife of an Obama official and a lobbist, was found dead this morning in a burning car parked in her garage.
The bizarre death has D.C. wondering what happened to Turton. Authorities said her death appears to have resulted from "a low-speed crash, an unknown medical condition, the fire, or some combination of the three," the Washington Post reported.
Turton, who was 37, lived a full life. Surge Desk rounds up what we know about her so far.
1. She was one-half of a power couple Turton was married to Dan Turton, the White House's deputy director of legislative affairs for the U.S. House.Last year, Politco included them in a piece on White House aides who are married to lobbyists. The two were well-known in Democratic circles.
2. She used to work for Congress Before becoming a lobbyist, Turton served as chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut. She also spent time as an aide to Rep. Richard Gephardt.
3. She lobbied for Progress Energy After leaving the Hill, Turton began working in 2007 as a regulatory analyst for Progress Energy, a North Carolina-based utility company. Progress Energy is also in the news today because of a possible $13.7 billion merger with Duke Energy.
4. She was a family woman The Turtons have three children, as this picture from her Facebook page shows. According to neighbors, the children are all under 5 years old. The couple purchased the home in Southeast D.C. for $826,000 in 2003.
5. She will be missed by many in D.C. As news of Turton's death spread today, Powerhouse Energy issued a statement offering condolences, and friends and old co-workers took to Twitter to share their sorrow.
I was checking the logs and found a search that was done with the following:
ashley turton federal reserve
Being the curious man I am, I decided to look a bit and found the following at the economicpolicyjournal:
The rumors are swirling big time in D.C. Here’s what one anonymous commenter wrote at my earlier post:
Now this gets interesting, because Rosa DeLauro owned the house in which Rahm Emanuel lived rent-free during House sessions for five years. Word from DC is that the place was wired for audio and video. Ashley Turton, as DeLauro’s chief of staff, probably wrote the checks to pay bills on that condo and would be privy to “extra” expenses.
ENRON! “They” messed up with Clif Baxter when he supposedly commited suicide ~ check: http://www.usatoday.com/money/energy/2002-01-25-enron-suicide.htm
Oh, my goodness. You’ve found the Chicago Link.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/24584_Page2.html
The web continues to unfold.
However, when it comes to Podesta, that's the title given to career bureaucrats in charge of the secret police and torture in Medieval Italian city states, and in the top rungs of the official courts in Sicilian principalities ~ even under the Moslems.
Nancy and Leon would kiss Podesta's ring if he showed it to them, and be happy for the opportunity.
All of them would have been required to carry my own ancestors around in sedan chairs from palacio to palacio ~ and they might or might not have been allowed indoors if it rained.
Then, there's the Papacy, and that's about as high as the traditional Italian structure goes.
A clue, the Popes still hold court in Rome, my own ancestors were run off out of there about 700 years ago ('cause they were undoubtedly very evil and very French), and undoubtedly the Podestas, Panettas and d'Alessandros were reduced to a very impoverished sort of gentility where they were consigned to collecting empty wine bottles for refill at the village vintner!
The fact that descendants of all these families have been allowed to prosper means that America is truly a great land, but frequently unappreciated even by those who have been brought back from the precipice of history and given the keys to the kingdoms of this world.
It would take a long while for a smoking engine to burn a beam like that. Unless the “engine” fire disabled the electronics and she was locked inside the car. Very strange circumstance.
At least it knocked the death of the former Bush official found in the trash dump off the front pages.
The movie is called St. Rita. Catholics traditionally consider her the patron of HOPELESS SITUATIONS. She's also known as St. Rita of Cascia.
Every now and then I'll watch one of these "lives of the saints" movies because the underlying stories are either morally instructive, or historically explanatory. What I've seen so far is pretty much backed up by what the critics say ~ which is that this movie focuses on St. Rita's life before she became a nun so that gives you a bit of the color of the time.
This is the social order where the Podesta could be your best buddy but he also arranged for torture and for strangling enemies of the state.
St. Rita certainly knew what a rough crowd was all about! So, let's say this one is historically edifying!
It appears we are being watched by someone at a crisis management company that works with the energy companies and someone in the white house.
http://whoseparanoid.blogspot.com/2011/01/ashley-turton-atf-joins-investigation.html
FYI,even the post thinks it’s strange,Lobbyist Ashley Turton’s sudden death shakes Capitol Hill again - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/10/AR2011011006810.html
Looking at today’s new thread posting of an old article on Ashley Turton and several of the old threads about her. Had not seen this fact posted anywhere, so I will stick it here.
By CHRIS FRATES | 3/29/11 8:59 PM EDT
White House lobbyist Dan Turton is leaving his administration post to work for the energy company Entergy, which is the second largest generator of nuclear power in the country.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52188.html
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