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Dick Cheney, one of most powerful, polarizing vice presidents in history, dies at 84
Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from family spokesman Jeremy Adler.
The quietly forceful Cheney served father and son presidents, leading the armed forces as defense chief during the Persian Gulf War under President George H.W. Bush before returning to public life as Vice President under Bush’s son, George W. Bush.
Cheney was, in effect, the chief operating officer of the younger Bush’s presidency. He had a hand, often a commanding one, in implementing decisions most important to the President and some of surpassing interest to himself — all while living with decades of heart disease and, post-administration, a heart transplant. Cheney consistently defended the extraordinary tools of surveillance, detention and inquisition employed in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Years after leaving office, he became a target of President Donald Trump, especially after daughter Liz Cheney became the leading Republican critic and examiner of Trump’s desperate attempts to stay in power after his election defeat and his actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a television ad for his daughter. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward.”
In a twist the Democrats of his era could never have imagined, Dick Cheney said last year he was voting for their candidate, Kamala Harris, for President against Trump.
A survivor of five heart attacks, Cheney long thought he was living on borrowed time and declared in 2013 he now awoke each morning “with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day,” an odd image for a figure who always seemed to be manning the ramparts.
His vice presidency defined by the age of terrorism, Cheney disclosed that he had had the wireless function of his defibrillator turned off years earlier out of fear terrorists would remotely send his heart a fatal shock.
In his time in office, no longer was the vice presidency merely a ceremonial afterthought. Instead, Cheney made it a network of back channels from which to influence policy on Iraq, terrorism, presidential powers, energy and other cornerstones of a conservative agenda.
Fixed with a seemingly permanent half-smile — detractors called it a smirk — Cheney joked about his outsize reputation as a stealthy manipulator.
“Am I the evil genius in the corner that nobody ever sees come out of his hole?” he asked. “It’s a nice way to operate, actually.”
A hard-liner on Iraq who was increasingly isolated as other hawks left government, Cheney was proved wrong on point after point in the Iraq War, without ever losing the conviction that he was essentially right.
He alleged links between the 2001 attacks against the United States and prewar Iraq that didn’t exist. He said U.S. troops would be welcomed as liberators; they weren’t. He declared the Iraqi insurgency in its last throes in May 2005, back when 1,661 U.S. service members had been killed, not even half the toll by war’s end.
For admirers, he kept the faith in a shaky time, resolute even as the nation turned against the war and the leaders waging it.
But well into Bush’s second term, Cheney’s clout waned, checked by courts or shifting political realities.
Courts ruled against efforts he championed to broaden presidential authority and accord special harsh treatment to suspected terrorists. His hawkish positions on Iran and North Korea were not fully embraced by Bush.
Cheney operated much of the time from undisclosed locations in the months after the 2001 attacks, kept apart from Bush to ensure one or the other would survive any follow-up assault on the country’s leadership.
With Bush out of town on that fateful day, Cheney was a steady presence in the White House, at least until Secret Service agents lifted him off his feet and carried him away, in a scene the vice president later described to comical effect.
From the beginning, Cheney and Bush struck an odd bargain, unspoken but well understood. Shelving any ambitions he might have had to succeed Bush, Cheney was accorded power comparable in some ways to the presidency itself.
That bargain largely held up.
“He is constituted in a way to be the ultimate No. 2 guy,” Dave Gribbin, a friend who grew up with Cheney in Casper, Wyoming, and worked with him in Washington, once said. “He is congenitally discreet. He is remarkably loyal.”
As Cheney put it: “I made the decision when I signed on with the President that the only agenda I would have would be his agenda, that I was not going to be like most vice presidents — and that was angling, trying to figure out how I was going to be elected President when his term was over with.”
His penchant for secrecy and backstage maneuvering had a price. He came to be seen as a thin-skinned Machiavelli orchestrating a bungled response to criticism of the Iraq war. And when he shot a hunting companion in the torso, neck and face with an errant shotgun blast in 2006, he and his coterie were slow to disclose that extraordinary turn of events.
The Vice President called it “one of the worst days of my life.” The victim, his friend Harry Whittington, recovered and quickly forgave him. Comedians were relentless about it for months. Whittington died in 2023.
When Bush began his presidential quest, he sought help from Cheney, a Washington insider who had retreated to the oil business. Cheney led the team to find a vice presidential candidate.
Bush decided the best choice was the man picked to help with the choosing.
Together, the pair faced a protracted 2000 postelection battle before they could claim victory. A series of recounts and court challenges — a tempest that brewed from Florida to the nation’s highest court — left the nation in limbo for weeks.
Cheney took charge of the presidential transition before victory was clear and helped give the administration a smooth launch despite the lost time. In office, disputes among departments vying for a bigger piece of Bush’s constrained budget came to his desk and often were settled there.
On Capitol Hill, Cheney lobbied for the President’s programs in halls he had walked as a deeply conservative member of Congress and the No. 2 Republican House leader.
Jokes abounded about how Cheney was the real No. 1 in town; Bush didn’t seem to mind and cracked a few himself. But such comments became less apt later in Bush’s presidency as he clearly came into his own.
Cheney retired to Jackson Hole, not far from where Liz Cheney a few years later bought a home, establishing Wyoming residency before she won his old House seat in 2016. The fates of father and daughter grew closer, too, as the Cheney family became one of Trump’s favorite targets.
Dick Cheney rallied to his daughter’s defense in 2022 as she juggled her lead role on the committee investigating Jan. 6 with trying to get reelected in deeply conservative Wyoming.
Liz Cheney’s vote for Trump’s impeachment after the insurrection earned her praise from many Democrats and political observers outside Congress. But that praise and her father’s support didn’t keep her from losing badly in the Republican primary, a dramatic fall after her quick rise to the No. 3 job in the House GOP leadership.
Politics first lured Dick Cheney to Washington in 1968, when he was a congressional fellow. He became a protégé of Rep. Donald Rumsfeld, an Illinois Republican, serving under him in two agencies and in Gerald Ford’s White House before he was elevated to chief of staff, the youngest ever, at age 34.
Cheney held the post for 14 months, then returned to Casper, where he had been raised, and ran for the state’s single congressional seat.
In that first race for the House, Cheney suffered a mild heart attack, prompting him to crack he was forming a group called “Cardiacs for Cheney.” He still managed a decisive victory and went on to win five more terms.
In 1989, Cheney became defense secretary under the first President Bush and led the Pentagon during the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War that drove Iraq’s troops from Kuwait. Between the two Bush administrations, Cheney led Dallas-based Halliburton Corp., a large engineering and construction company for the oil industry.
Cheney was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, son of a longtime Agriculture Department worker. Senior class president and football co-captain in Casper, he went to Yale on a full scholarship for a year but left with failing grades.
He moved back to Wyoming, eventually enrolled at the University of Wyoming and renewed a relationship with high school sweetheart Lynne Anne Vincent, marrying her in 1964. He is survived by his wife, by Liz and by a second daughter, Mary.
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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
That includes funding raised through a public bitcoin wallet.
Republican congressional candidate Michael Carbonara says he has raised $1.7 million to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
“For far too long, Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been a fixture in Washington, and she’s done nothing to help working families struggling with inflation, high taxes and needless bureaucracy, while pushing policies that harm Florida families and take away their freedoms,” Carbonara said.
“Her approach to government is rooted in Washington bureaucracy and big spending, not in accountability or affordability.”
Of note, Wasserman Schultz had just over $1.6 million in cash on hand at the close of the third quarter. The Weston Democrat hasn’t announced quarterly numbers for the final three months of 2025.
Details on Carbonara’s fundraising are not yet publicly available. The campaign said it did invest a portion of funds accrued through a dedicated public blockchain wallet with bitcoin personally raised by Carbonara.
But Carbonara’s campaign said he demonstrated the ability to raise more than she had in the bank in her last report. The candidate has stressed a hunger for change as he challenges the longest-serving Democrat in Florida’s congressional delegation.
“District 25 deserves a leader who will fight for Florida and restore Floridians’ freedom,” he said. “I’m in the business of breaking down barriers, solving problems and creating jobs, and I’ll do the same for our community in Congress.”
No other Republican who filed to challenge Wasserman Schultz last cycle raised as much as Carbonara has this cycle. Ahead of the 2024 contest, Republican Chris Eddy raised more than $416,000 for the seat. Wasserman Schultz beat Eddy in November 2024 with 54.5% of the vote.
That was a tighter margin than when she defeated Republican Carla Spalding in 2022 with 55.1% of the vote, the only other time she ran under the current district lines. Notably, Republican leaders in Florida have signaled that redistricting will happen again before the Midterms.
Carbonara’s campaign said it also has employed social media in new ways to directly reach voters in the district. A launch video on X has been viewed more than 9.3 million times as of this writing.
Federal players, national stage
A lot of friendly wagers by Florida politicians could result in an uncomfortable amount of red and white clothing choices in Washington. But the College Football Playoff national championship game afforded political leaders, including members of Florida’s congressional delegation, a chance to show off state pride with a home team advantage.
That included President Donald Trump, who attended the matchup between Indiana University and the University of Miami at Hard Rock Stadium. The Hoosiers beat the Hurricanes 27-21, but politicians, including Sens. Ashley Moody and Rick Scott and Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart, Byron Donalds and Carlos Giménez all scored pictures in the VIP box with the President.
In one shot, Donalds adorned a “Trump” cap, with the U replaced by UM’s logo. The Trump War Room social media account reposted pics of the Naples Republican with a reminder that “MAGA is all-in” for his Governor campaign.
Other politicians caught on camera at the game included Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. María Elvira Salazar. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with the press on the sidelines and called his hometown, Miami, a “storybook setting” for Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal. Rubio also noted that his son Anthony, who is on the University of Florida’s roster this year, knew Fernando Mendoza, the Hoosiers quarterback, from when both played high school ball in Miami.
After a losing bet with Sen. Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, Scott will end up wearing crimson and cream at the Capitol, while DeSantis has promised to send stone crabs and Key lime pie to Indiana Gov. Mike Braun.
But lawmakers said that regardless of the outcome, the championship game brought rich opportunities to showcase Miami on a national stage.
“Tonight, football gives the world a front-row seat to Miami at its best. A hometown legend returns. A historic matchup unfolds,” Salazar posted. “Only in this global city, where ambition, culture and opportunity collide, do dreams come full circle under the lights, in orange and green.”
Health care blueprint?
Is Scott’s health care proposal emerging as Senate Republicans’ favored option?
The Naples Republican made the case in a recent Washington Examiner op-ed and in a pen-and-pad briefing with the press in his Washington office.
The push, especially for the creation of health savings accounts that let consumers direct funding to insurers rather than have credits go directly to carriers, has increasingly emerged as a conservative priority. Scott also wants families to shop for care across state lines. The hope is that this will bring free-market competition and drive down premiums.
“The difference is profound. Rather than being forced to accept whatever narrow physician and hospital network Washington or an insurance company offers, families will have real, affordable options,” Scott wrote. “They can seek out the specialist three states over who has the best track record treating their condition. They can weigh whether a high-deductible plan with lower premiums makes more sense for their situation.”
So, is Senate leadership considering the plan? The inclusion of health savings accounts was part of Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s top three priorities outlined to POLITICO earlier this month, but Thune has Sen. Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican, leading a bipartisan group looking for a health care deal.
It’s also something that Trump has signaled belongs in any final legislation. Notably, Trump didn’t endorse any particular piece of legislation.
Scott could be seen on cable making the case to Fox News that his bill was the best blueprint for sending a health care package to Trump’s desk. There, he said, lawmakers must focus on reducing the cost of care, and not entertaining the extension of subsidies tied to the Affordable Care Act.
“I’m fighting to fix this broken system by working with (Trump) to put money back in your pocket and give you the choice to choose health care that meets your needs!” Scott posted on X.
In the House, Scott has worked with the Republican Study Committee, with Chair August Pfluger of Texas, the prime sponsor of a companion bill in the lower chamber. Rep. Aaron Bean, a Fernandina Beach Republican, co-sponsored that bill.
Florida is home to more consumers who buy plans through the Affordable Care Act than any other state, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Within the state’s Republican House delegation, there has been a hunger to find a plan to send to Trump.
Rep. Vern Buchanan, a Republican co-Chair of the Florida congressional delegation, said, for his part, that Trump is pushing in the right direction. He heralded the Great Healthcare Plan released last week by the White House. That includes health care savings accounts and premium cuts on plans currently in the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
“Lowering health care costs and increasing transparency are essential to a system that works for patients. President Trump’s announcement of the Great Healthcare Plan reflects Republican efforts to reduce patient costs and improve transparency, and I will continue working with the administration on these issues,” Buchanan said.
“The House Ways and Means Committee has already advanced patient-first reforms to lower costs, expand access to care and promote transparency. As Health Subcommittee Chairman, I look forward to continuing this work while advancing Republicans’ agenda to ensure savings reach patients and families.”
Florida’s finest
Moody recognized two Tampa police officers for saving a Florida senior from serious injury.
Moody, a Plant City Republican, honored Officers Jason Sikoski and Kaleb Girard in a speech on the Senate floor after they saved an 86-year-old man from falling off a 30-foot roof.
“This senior had gotten on his roof to clear foliage, lost his balance and had inched his way with no success in trying to climb back up to the edge of the roof. The officers, when they found him, he was already dangling and was almost falling off the roof,” she said.
“You can imagine the quick response from Tampa police officers Sikoski and Girard, along with Tampa Fire Rescue, who showed up. They acted timely without hesitation, and they were able to save this Florida man from falling. It was obvious from the situation that they found, had they not shown up, had they not responded swiftly and acted quickly, that Floridian would have fallen 30 feet to the ground and no doubt this story would have ended with a very tragic conclusion.”
Moody awarded the officers with the Florida’s Finest Award in recognition of their service, with a copy placed in the Congressional Record.
Freezing ICE out
Following the deadly shooting of a Minnesota woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, Rep. Maxwell Frost said he won’t support funding the agency. That includes a vote this week on the Homeland Security budget.
“This administration wants us all to believe that what they’re doing is just, but the people know better,” Frost said. “The people know that we have rights, and I want to be very clear, making sure that we don’t fund an agency that is tear-gassing our people in the streets.”
At an Apopka news conference, the Orlando Democrat joined immigration activists opposed to the establishment of an ICE facility in Central Florida. Frost referenced the killing of Renee Good, a death that Homeland Security Kristi Noem has repeatedly defended. Noem confirmed that ICE Agent Jonathan Ross’ actions were under review by the agency.
“We don’t fund an agency that has shot and killed a U.S. citizen, a human, a person who is following their directions, shot her in the face,” Frost said, before quoting the expletive Ross reportedly used to describe Good after the shooting.
He also attacked ICE for trying to establish more ICE centers across the country.
“They want to be like an Amazon Prime for humans,” Frost said. “Sounds a little familiar.”
Fact-checking nutrition labels
Two members of Florida’s congressional delegation joined forces in pursuing better nutrition across the country.
Reps. Darren Soto, a Kissimmee Democrat, and Greg Steube, a Sarasota Republican, just filed the Ensuring Consistency in Nutrition Labels Act, which would strengthen labeling requirements for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by lowering the allowable deviation in reporting facts to 5%.
“Americans have a right to accurate information about the food products they buy at the grocery store,” Steube said. “While families are making healthier choices about the food they eat, it is unacceptable that food manufacturers are allowed a 20% margin of error for the nutrition labels on their products.”
The Honest Food Council is among the entities supporting the change. The FDA currently allows food labels to deviate by up to 20% from the true amounts of ingredients, including sugar and sodium.
“Misbranded nutritional content can lead to serious effects for people who are diabetic or have sugar-sodium sensitivities, as food companies often take advantage of relaxed regulations,” Soto said. “This bill will reduce the deviation threshold to promote consistency and build consumer trust.”
The need for accurate information about food is essential to families across political parties, Steube said.
“Making America healthy again starts with accurate reporting on nutrition labels so that families can make informed decisions when filling out their grocery lists,” he said.
Clearing retailers
Copycat companies face consequences for violating patents. But should store owners?
Rep. Laurel Lee, a Thonotosassa Republican, introduced the Customer Legal Ease and Relief (CLEAR) Act, a bipartisan bill to establish standard rules protecting retailers from lawsuits for selling or even using products where patents are in dispute.
“Increasingly, local businesses are being dragged into complex patent disputes over products they did not create and do not control,” Lee said. “The CLEAR Act is a commonsense, targeted reform that ensures patent disputes are litigated against the right party — the manufacturer — while protecting Main Street businesses in Florida’s 15th Congressional District and across the country from predatory lawsuits.”
Lee’s office said the issue has been particularly problematic regarding devices employed by stores, such as wireless routers and point-of-sale systems. The National Retail Federation has lobbied for protections, noting that companies often seek quick settlements even when patent claims aren’t deemed legitimate.
“For too long, retailers have been caught in the crossfire of patent disputes that have nothing to do with our business operations,” said Stephanie Martz, General Counsel for the National Retail Federation.
“We simply use and sell products manufactured by others. The CLEAR Act recognizes this reality and ensures that patent disputes are resolved where they belong — with the manufacturers who designed and created the products. This legislation will save countless small retailers from being driven out of business by litigation costs alone.”
Lee filed the bill with Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat.
Airing concerns
Concerns about the use of commercial airspace in Palm Beach County became a central point of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Rep. Lois Frankel, a West Palm Beach Democrat, raised concerns from constituents affected by new rules restricting flight paths around Mar-a-Lago.
“Residents are reporting constant noise, increased air pollution, declining property values, and growing concerns about delays and flight safety at Palm Beach International Airport. In just a short period of time, the county airport has received hundreds of complaints,” Frankel said.
While the House Democrat counts America’s most prominent Republican as a constituent, she said the concerns of voters in her district were less about who was President and more about why restrictions persist even when Trump is nowhere near the Palm Beach County estate.
“In Florida, people live their lives outdoors. Because these restrictions are now in place year-round, thousands of residents are living with disruption every single day,” she said.
“We know that protecting the President is essential. No one disputes that. The question is, do security and quality of life have to be mutually exclusive? My community is hoping that there is room to explore alternatives that maintain strong security while reducing the impact on surrounding areas.”
VA layoffs
As the Veterans Affairs Administration (VA) lays off thousands of doctors and nurses, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants answers on how this will impact patients.
The Weston Democrat, in a letter to VA Secretary Doug Collins, asked what the consequences would be of eliminating 35,000 positions.
“Indiscriminately eliminating these positions from your HR system without analysis is unacceptable, and in contradiction of your repeated assurances that veterans would not be impacted by staff cuts,” Wasserman Schultz wrote. “I am concerned that these cuts will add further strain on a workforce that has been understaffed for years, especially as I continue to hear from VA doctors and nurses that workloads are unmanageable, leading to delayed or insufficient care of our veterans.”
As Ranking Democrat on the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, she called for a list of all impacted positions and the rationale for eliminating them, as well as an explanation why the layoffs would occur when Congress funded the requested amount in the administration-proposed budget.
Collins, for his part, has said the agency has been working more efficiently since he came on board.
“Nearly a year into the second Trump administration, backlogs are way down, claims are faster, and more improvements are on the way,” he recently told Real America’s Voice.
Nicaragua on notice
While news from Venezuela has dominated national headlines (and Cuba has made plenty in Florida), Salazar wants the regime in Nicaragua to know Congress still has an eye on the nation.
Salazar, the House Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chair, just introduced the Restoring Sovereignty and Human Rights in Nicaragua Act. The Coral Gables Republican filed the sanctions bill with Rep. Chris Smith, a Virginia Republican.
“Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo are ruthless dictators who have hijacked Nicaragua and terrorized their own people,” Salazar said. “They jail political opponents, silence the Church, crush free speech and destroy democracy.”
She said the legislation will “impose real consequences, stand with Nicaragua’s political prisoners and people of faith, and send a clear message: the United States will never legitimize tyranny in our hemisphere.”
The bill would amend federal law, including the Salazar-championed Reinforcing Nicaragua’s Adherence to Conditions for Electoral Reform Act, signed in 2021, that imposed restrictions on Nicaragua’s leaders while aiding exiles.
“Our bill outlines serious economic penalties that can be leveraged to hold the corrupt Nicaraguan government to account and bring swift justice and relief to the people of Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan people — including people of faith, opposition party members and leaders, and other political prisoners — have suffered for far too long under the oppressive rule of the Ortega-Murillo regime,” Smith said.
Praising resolve
A resolution filed by Giménez offers praise to military and Justice Department officials who executed the arrest of Venezuelans President Nicolás Maduro.
His resolution (HRes 998) praises Trump and everyone involved in Operation Absolute Resolve, the mission to apprehend the South American leader wanted on narcoterrorism charges.
“This resolution recognizes President Trump’s extraordinary political courage in authorizing ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ an operation that dismantled a criminal narco-terrorist regime and upheld the rule of law,” Giménez said
“As someone who lived under communism, I know firsthand how devastating these dictatorships are to human dignity and freedom. This resolution affirms America’s commitment to freedom and holds authoritarian leaders accountable. The Venezuelan people deserve democratic self-determination free from tyranny.”
The bill was referred to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Brian Mast, a Stuart Republican.
On this day
Jan. 20, 1937 — “First inauguration after ‘Lame Duck Amendment’” via U.S. House of Representatives — Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol for a second term as President. The inauguration of Roosevelt and Vice President John Nance Garner was the first to occur after the passage of the 20th Amendment. Nicknamed the “Lame Duck Amendment,” it moved the inauguration date from March 4 to Jan. 20. The Amendment also changed the opening date of a new Congress to Jan. 3, thereby eliminating extended lame duck congressional sessions. Nearly 250 Representatives from the 75th Congress — the first new Congress assembled in January — met in the House Chamber before Roosevelt arrived at the Capitol.
Jan. 20, 1980 — “Iran hostage crisis ends” via History.com — Minutes after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as the 40th President of the United States, the 52 U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, are released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis. In 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government allowed the ousted Shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s political and religious leader, took over the hostage situation, refusing all appeals to release the hostages, even after the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to the crisis in a unanimous vote.
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Peter Schorsch publishes Delegation, compiled by Jacob Ogles, edited and assembled by Phil Ammann and Ryan Nicol.
Ma de La Luz Mejia Rosas died last month after the 70-year-old suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm on Universal’s Revenge of the Mummy ride, according to a newly released Medical Examiner’s report.
Rosas became unresponsive on Nov. 25 on the indoor roller coaster then passed away two weeks later Dec. 9 at Orlando Regional Medical Center, records showed.
“Mrs. Rosas went to the park to enjoy time with her children and grandchildren, expecting a safe and joyful experience,” lawyer Ben Crump, who is representing her family, said in a statement.
“Instead, her family is now left grieving and searching for answers. They deserve a full understanding of what happened before, during, and after this ride. We intend to thoroughly investigate the circumstances surrounding this tragedy and ensure her family’s voice is heard.”
Crump said he is asking for information about the ride’s operations, safety protocols, maintenance history and data on other incidents.
Universal did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.
Rosas’ death was publicly disclosed on a statewide theme park injury report last week.
Florida’s major theme parks are required to self-disclose all visitors’ injuries on rides if the guests were hospitalized for at least 24 hours. The report is publicly released by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, though it contains limited information on what went wrong and about visitors’ condition.
The theme park injury report showed 16 people had been hurt on Revenge of the Mummy since it opened in 2004. Most recently, a 32-year-old woman felt “neck pain/motion sickness” last year. A 60-year-old woman had a seizure in 2017. Other guests reported chest pain, light headedness, feeling nauseous or passing out.
Crump was previously representing the family of a man with disabilities who died in September after riding a roller coaster at Universal’s Epic Universe theme park.
The family and Universal settled out of court in a confidential settlement.
Millions of people visit Orlando’s theme parks every year, and a handful of tragedies occur.
Earlier this month, a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against The Boathouse restaurant after a man died from choking on a steak at Disney Springs last year.
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