Mayor donates kidney to Facebook friend

[catgirl]

Now this (democratic) mayor knows how to treat her constituents right!

HARTFORD, Conn. — Politicians long ago discovered the uses of Facebook. East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon found something else there: a constituent who needed her kidney.

Capone Almon, 35, had more than 1,600 "friends" on Facebook last year when she saw one of them, Carlos Sanchez, post a status update saying his friends and relatives had all been tested and couldn't donate a kidney.

She knew him casually through activities and friends in the New Haven suburb of East Haven, but they weren't so close that she had heard he was ill.

Sanchez, a 44-year-old father whose kidneys were failing because of diabetes, sent out the request on Facebook only hesitantly and on his doctor's suggestion. He worried people might pity him – and certainly hadn't pinned his hopes on finding a donor that way.

He didn't have long to wait. Capone Almon was the first person to respond.

Read on:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/22/mayor-donates-kidney-to-f_n_547307.html

[CTyankee]

1. Capone Almon was re-elected in an ugly fight with Republicans. East Haven

has more than its share of RW bigots, altho I personally know some wonderful and very liberal folks who live there. Some of opposition to her is out and out sexism but racial bigotry there is pretty well known around New Haven. I think it's tough to be a liberal in East Haven...

[catgirl]

2. Thanks for the info.

I think it's great she kept it a secret during the election.