NEW YORK (AP) — John McLaughlin, the conservative political commentator and host of the namesake long-running television show that pioneered hollering-heads discussions of Washington politics, has died. He was 89.
McLaughlin died Tuesday morning, according to an announcement on the Facebook page of "The McLaughlin Group" series. No cause of death was mentioned, but an ailing McLaughlin had missed the taping for this past weekend's show — his first absence in the series' 34 years.
The campaign trying to legalize marijuana possession and sale through the ballot this November has reserved airtime for TV advertisements, according to spokesman Jim Borghesani.
"We're going to try to buy as much as we can," Borghesani told the News Service.
