Minnesota is STILL Wellstone Country

let the small-minded pukes print all the hateful bumperstickers they want, they're just fighting the truth that Minnesota is still Wellstone Country!

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4015047.html
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Wellstone still draws a crowd
Nolan Zavoral, Star Tribune

Published July 30, 2003

It was supposed to be an open house, but it turned into something more because the Wellstone name was attached.

For four hours Tuesday, a flood of people -- an estimated 1,000 or more -- filled the lawn of a corner office building on Raymond Av. in St. Paul. There were lines everywhere.

There was a line to file up the two flights in the brick building to see the Wellstone Action offices, named in honor of U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone and his wife, Sheila, who died in a plane crash in northern Minnesota on Oct. 25, along with their daughter, Marcia Markuson, and three campaign aides.

A nonprofit organization with no formal political ties, Wellstone Action champions causes "for progressive change and economic justice."
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This was in the middle of a workday, with very little publicity. There's some very touching quotes deeper into the article

My favorite T shirt was the one with the bus on back and above it, "Don't park the bus."

The Ben and Jerry's ice cream was excellent. I ran into a lot of people I knew.

I wonder how many Minnesota DUers made it.

you live forever.

might sound cheesy, but it is very true.

1: Paul Wellstone's plane crashed 11 days before the election and there had to be a replacement. Absentee votes cast already for Wellstone were not counted.

2: Republicans are very good at making mountains out of molehills and getting lots of people to agree with them that their molehill is indeed a mountain.