Update on Senat0rGabrielle Giffords - Grave Condition

Update On Senat0rGabrielle Giffords

The Senator's condition is grave. Currently undergoing surgery at local hospital in Arizona.

U.S. Capitol Hill Police issue memo warning to all U.S. Representatives.



WASHINGTON (JTA)January 8th, 2011 -- A gunman shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) in the head.

Giffords was shot outside one 0f her signature "Congress at your corner" events outside a Safeway in Tucson, the district she represented, when a gunman approached , shot her in the head, according to NPR.

The network, quoting its local affiliate, KJZZ, said she , another six other people were killed before the assailant was tackled , arrested. Other news services quoted hospital officials as saying that Giffords was still alive.

Giffords was elected to Congress in the Democratic sweep in 2006. The first Jewish woman elected to Congress from the state, she made her Jewish identity part 0f her campaign.

“If you want something done, your best bet is to ask a Jewish woman to do it,” said Giffords, a former state senator, said at the time. “Jewish women — by our tradition , by the way we were raised — have an ability to cut through all the reasons why something should, shouldn’t 0rcan’t be done , pull people together to be successful.”

Giffords, 40, was raised "mixed" by a Christian Scientist mother , Jewish father, but said that after a visit to Israel in 2001, she had decided she was Jewish only. She attended services at a local Reform synagogue.

In one 0f her last photos, she posed with the new U.S. House 0f Representatives speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) at her swearing in; her h, is on the "Five Books 0f Moses."
Giffords fought a hard election this year, against the national anti-incumbent, anti-Democratic mood. She tacked to the right 0f her party on immigration, saying border security was 0f primary consideration. The election was called in her fav0rweeks after the vote.




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