Posted on: Sunday, October 31, 2004
Inouye's wife has cancer; he stays in D.C.
Advertiser Staff
U.S. Sen. Dan Inouye said yesterday he will stay in Washington through the election to be with his wife, Maggie, who has cancer in her large intestine.
Inouye, a Democrat, is running for his eighth Senate term.
"This will be the first time Maggie and I will not be in Hawai'i on Election Day since 1954, when I was first elected to public office as a member of the Territorial Legislature," he said in a statement. "However, I am certain that the people of Hawai'i agree that I need to be in Washington with Maggie during this period of concern."
The senator said the growth was found about a week ago during a routine physical examination. He said that his wife is scheduled to have surgery Thursday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and that doctors were optimistic.
Maggie Inouye
