Virginia Democrat battling ‘Parkinson’s on steroids’ won’t seek re-election

Representative Jennifer Wexton, diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, to step down after finishing out current term

Democratic congresswoman Jennifer Wexton said on Monday that she will finish out her term but not seek re-election for the northern Virginia-based seat that she has held since beating a Republican incumbent in 2018.

Wexton, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease earlier this year, said in a statement that her doctor had modified my diagnosis to supra-nuclear Palsy". She described it as a kind of Parkinson's on steroids'".