abstract:Michael "Mike" Horton is an American character actor and voice over artist most remembered for his long-running role as Jessica Fletcher's (Angela Lansbury) nephew, Grady Fletcher, on the television series Murder, She Wrote. He has appeared in over fifty films and television series, including Star Trek: Voyager, ER, Dances with Wolves, Taxi, M*A*S*H, and Baywatch.
In other words, it was well within the strike zone the Republicans institutionalized in 1988 when they turned the GOP's amiable hitman Lee Atwater loose with his "Willie Horton" ad against Michael Dukakis.
Sir Jonathan Michael, chief executive of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (OUH) which runs the Horton General Hospital, said the OCCG and the OUH "both agreed that the suspension of emergency abdominal surgery at the Horton should remain in place, in the interests of patient safety".