Eleanor Mondale RIP

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale who carved out a reputation as an entertainment reporter, radio show host and gossip magnet, has died at her home in Minnesota. She was 51.


Ms. Mondale had been off the air at WCCO-AM in Minneapolis since March 19, 2009, when she announced that her brain cancer had returned a second time. She had surgery to remove the tumor on Aug. 12, 2009, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and a posting on her CaringBridge Web site called the surgery a success.

Ms. Mondale, the middle of three children born to Walter and Joan Mondale, campaigned for her father in his failed race to unseat President Ronald Reagan in 1984. She also made calls in 2002 in her father’s last campaign, when Mr. Mondale took the ballot slot of Senator Paul Wellstone, a Minnesota Democrat who died in a plane crash just days before the election.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/us/eleanor-mondale-da

[cutlassmama]

1. wonder if she used a cell phone a lot? It's supposed to cause brain cancer

[treestar]

2. So sad. Have to admit when I saw the headline I thought it

was the wife.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Tragic

My heartfelt condolences to the Mondales.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. She Was A Good Sport

She was on the Howard Stern show many years ago and Howard asked her his patented prurient questions about her dating Arnold Schwarzenegger (pre Maria) and whether she saw her father (the vice president) naked.

[a kennedy]

5. RIP Eleanor......

[bigwillq]

6. RIP

:(

[Whats_Happening]

7. She was hot.

Which was always extra-suprising for a Mondale, especially considering how hot she was.

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Why do the beautiful die young?