In hindsight, Mandel decision to jump in before he was politically ready was a significant miscalculation. Filing papers to become a Senate candidate back in June 2011, Mandel studiously avoided the press during his exploratory phase, and ended up alienating many of the reporters assigned to cover him. He gotten relentlessly bad press as a 31yearold newbie who neglected his duties as treasurer to run for the Senate, and his campaign team has been flatfooted in handling damage control..The family of a contestant from Season 14 of ABC's The Bachelor says that 29yearold Gia Allemand was found in her New Orleans home by her NBA player boyfriend, Ryan Anderson, on Monday night following an apparent suicide attempt. Allemand died Wednesday following a "critical loss of brain and organ function," her family said in a statement. The Bachelor alum, a former model, was one of the final three women trying to woo Jake Pavelka during the reality show's 2009 season.

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