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Wellstones first television ads criticized Bushs tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. When Congress voted overwhelmingly to authorize military force against Iraq, Wellstone was the only senator facing a tough reelection challenge to vote no, opposing Bushs preemptive, go-it-alone strategy.
Polls showed that a few weeks before election day, Wellstone had pulled slightly ahead of Coleman. Then, just eleven days before the election, on his way to a funeral and a campaign event in rural Minnesota, Wellstones plane crashed near the Eveleth airport, killing the 58-year-old senator, his wife, Sheila, his daughter Marcia, three campaign staffers and two pilots.
A memorial service for the Wellstones and other victims of the crash filled a 20,000-seat arena at the University of Minnesota. The Democrats picked former senator and vice president Walter Mondale to replace Wellstone in the campaign, but it was too late to wage an effective campaign. Minnesota voters elected Coleman.
Most obituaries described Wellstone as a quixotic radical, out of step with the timesa progressive in a conservative era. But Wellstone understood the importance of pushing the debate to the left while also fighting for concrete gains in legislation. He was sometimes a lone dissenter, but at other times he used his position to rescue progressive amendments from oblivion.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/12-6
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)I don't remember that at all. Most people praised him for his commitment to his principles, even those who didn't agree with him.
ETA: People who ran against him or those who wanted to paint him as out-of-touch when he was alive certainly described him as a lone voice in the wilderness. But even they knew that he was true to what he believed, and they admired that, both when he was alive and after he died.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)And his karma has already begun the process of morphing him into a walking intestinal parasite.
You feel bad, but not bad enough
You know you had it coming 'cause you played so rough
Back over your shoulder got an icy chill
Man, you thought you'd get away with it
Now you know you never will
Somebody, somebody
You got a feelin' somebody's following you
No one knows 'bout the times you had
You've been so evil; you know, you've been so bad
There's a devil to pay for what you put them through
And you got a feeling somebody's following you
Somebody, somebody
You got a feelin' somebody's following you
Somebody, somebody
You got a feelin' somebody's following you
There's a jack-o-lantern moon in the midnight sky
Somebody gonna live, somebody gonna die
But down in the graveyard on that old tombstone
There's a big black crow and it's callin' you home
Somebody, somebody
You got a feelin' somebody's following you
Somebody, somebody
You got a feelin' somebody's following you
Somebody
You know there's somebody
gordianot
(15,245 posts)NUDE
(sorry for the mental image but I just had to share it, two in one shot)
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)Karl has a thing for small planes.
madokie
(51,076 posts)He stood pretty much exactly where I stand on the issues so he was a good fit for me. Al is doing a good follow up delayed four and three quarters years by coleman and the rovebots. Senator Al Franken that is.
When I first heard the news of the plane crash I knew in my heart that this was a hit. It had all the markings of the dick and poppy. I know that the dick and poppy were at odds in public but I don't believe it for one minute. That two were/are two criminals scratching each others backs
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Great Caesars Ghost
(532 posts)nuff said
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)And it most certainly was not the first or last time KKKarl has done something like this.
midnight
(26,624 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)tolerance Saturday and was retesting Sunday." This was later confirmed by the acting chairwoman of the NTSB, Carol Carmody; [Note: According to the NTSB web site Carmody formerly worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.]
http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/110102_wellstone.html
I don't fly planes, but saw this and wondered about this?
midnight
(26,624 posts)For that he was labeled a quixotic radical...