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	Paul Wellstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wellstone was a liberal and a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party.
		Wellstone was born in Washington D.C. to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Leon and Minnie Wellstone, and raised in Arlington, Virginia.
		Wellstone was known for his work for peace, the environment, labor, and health care; he also joined his wife Sheila to support the rights of victims of domestic violence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Wellstone (2986 words)

	Wellstone Action - About Us: How Paul Wellstone Won Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Wellstone had found a winning message that galvanized his base and appealed to a sizable portion of independent voters who are not doing well economically, who share some anti-establishment feelings, and who want to see change.
		Wellstone did raise money-in the 2002 election cycle, a record 122,000 donors gave an average of $50.
		For Wellstone, there was no option but to do what he believed was right, tell the voters where he stood, and let the chips fall as they may. It was a model of rare principled leadership that made donors and supporters from other states often claim that Paul Wellstone was their senator too.
	www.wellstone.org /about/elections.aspx (1257 words)

	Paul Wellstone
		Paul Wellstone, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, was born in Washington, on 21st July, 1944.
		Paul Wellstone, called the conscience of the US Senate for his passion and liberal convictions, was killed in an air crash yesterday, in the final days of a knife-edge mid-term election campaign.
		Wellstone, 58, was seen as a symbol of the anti-war movement for voting against President George Bush earlier this month on the resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, a stand that gave this contest in Minnesota national significance.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAwellstoneP.htm (1538 words)

	Assasination of Senator Paul Wellstone
		Paul Wellstone was the Senator of Minnesota, and was in the race for the elections as the Democratic candidate, until he got killed in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, together with his wife, daughter, three staff members and the crew of the plane on October 25th, 2002.
		Wellstone was known for his outspoken opposition to the Bush administration, and was despised by the Whitehouse.
		Wellstone, who had been traveling to attend a funeral, was less than two weeks away from an election that would have decided whether he served a third term.
	www.freedomfiles.org /archives/paulwellstone2.htm (1843 words)

	Paul Wellstone
		U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, the senior senator from Minnesota, was born to Leon and Minnie Wellstone on July 21, 1944.
		Paul Wellstone's experience as a teacher and grassroots organizer in Minnesota provides the framework for his progressive policies and priorities as a Senator.
		During his second term, Paul Wellstone traveled around the country to focus the nation's attention on children, and continued to be an outspoken national leader in the fight for economic justice for all.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/biography/wellstone.html (458 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Liberalism's Heart. by Harold Meyerson. October 29, 2002. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		What Wellstone grasped was that by the time he took office, at the start of 1991, the country's politics had moved so far to the right that flat-out opposition was often a moral and practical necessity.
		Happily, Wellstone's radicalism was always one that celebrated America's ideals and tried to hold the nation to them; he was, after all, a son of immigrants who came to the states escaping Soviet oppression.
		Wellstone and Co. wanted a stricter separation of auditing from consulting, more oversight of the accounting profession, and an end to the immense and unacknowledged stock options that top executives could claim.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2002/10/meyerson-h-10-29.html (2649 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Minnesota Senate Race -- Paul Wellstone Biography
		Wellstone's election to the Senate in 1990 was considered one of the major electoral upsets of the decade.
		Wellstone was known for his passionate support of health care rights, fighting with Senator Pete Domenici to extend their 1996 mental health law and requiring parity in treatment of mental illnesses.
		Wellstone, a two-term Democratic senator seeking reelection, was killed in an Oct. 25 plane crash in northern Minnesota.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/mn_wellstone.html (1104 words)

	MPR: The life of Paul Wellstone
		Paul Wellstone died as he approached the final full week of campaigning for a third term in the U.S. Senate.
		Wellstone's reputation as a populist increased with other Senate battles: his opposition to the 1996 Welfare Reform law that ended decades of welfare entitlements; his support for campaign finance reform; and, more recently, his opposition to current President Bush's tax cuts and his efforts to reform corporate governance.
		Wellstone more recently revealed that he had a form of multiple sclerosis that accounted for a pronounced limp, but he vowed not to let the illness interfere with his campaign or with his duties if elected.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200210/25_khoom_wellstoneobit (1193 words)

	NPR : Sen. Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Wellstone's time in the Senate was marked by devotion to liberal causes, including work on affordable health care, family leave, and a new farm bill.
		Wellstone was a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the Senate Committee on Veteran's Affairs, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
		Paul and Sheila Wellstone were married in 1963 and in recent years had made their home in St. Paul while commuting to Washington, D.C., during Senate sessions.
	www.npr.org /news/specials/wellstone (836 words)

	Remembering Paul Wellstone - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Paul was pumped as we drove through a light April snowfall to the next stop, the house of Gabe Brisbois, a political operative whose support would spread wide and deep.
		Paul managed to lock up the Iron Range endorsements before the ground froze for six months, ensuring that his were the only lawn signs up during the caucus season.
		Wellstone projected his sense of justice into the classes he taught as a political science professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. He encouraged his students to do active organizing in their communities.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2002/10/29/wellstone/print.html (1215 words)

	CNN.com - Wellstone made mark as liberal champion - Oct. 25, 2002
		Wellstone was in a tough fight for re-election this year, running against Republican Norm Coleman, a former mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota.
		Wellstone garnered national attention with that campaign, in which he traveled the state in a green bus, and aired quirky and humorous TV ads.
		Wellstone became the only candidate to beat an incumbent senator that year, winning 50 percent of the vote to 48 percent.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/elec02.mn.s.wellstone.obit (793 words)

	CNN.com - Senator, family members killed in Minnesota plane crash - Dec. 29, 2002
		Wellstone held a key Democratic seat in the U.S. Senate and had been criss-crossing the state in a tough re-election campaign against former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman.
		The son of Russian immigrants, Wellstone was raised in Arlington, Virginia, and was a champion wrestler at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he earned both a bachelor's degree and a doctorate.
		The charismatic Wellstone, who had multiple sclerosis but was not incapacitated by it, was a champion of health care coverage expansion, veterans affairs and environmental concerns.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/plane.crash.minn/index.html (866 words)

	BuzzFlash > Editorial > It's Not the Size of the Dog in the Fight; It's the Size of the Fight in the Dog. The ...
		Wellstone belies the Democratic Leadership Council version of political strategy, because Paul showed that you could create new policies and constituencies by sticking to your guns, being principled and not shying away from battling the entrenched powers.
		It is about something that the relatively pint-sized Paul Wellstone, a political science professor at Carlton College in Minnesota with little financial resources when he first ran for the Senate in 1990, taught us: It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
		Paul would have fought them until the last vote was counted, and he would have kicked Norm's butt back into the GOP Hypocrisy Wonderland home for former Republican hacks.
	www.buzzflash.com /editorial/05/01/edi05020.html (1182 words)

	In These Times * Remembering Paul Wellstone
		Paul worked to frame issues and policies that would realize the aims of these movement constituencies and also create a basis for unity among them, forging not just a “blue-green” coalition, but a broader, more unified progressive movement.
		Paul inspired not just because he was principled, but because of the nature of his principles, which appealed to the transcendent dimensions of human nature.
		Paul could lash out fervently against corporate greed and political misdeeds, and he was one of the Senate’s harshest critics of the way corporate globalization has reshaped our lives.
	www.inthesetimes.com /issue/27/01/feature3.shtml (666 words)

	Senator Paul Wellstone
		NAMI advocates throughout the nation are shocked and saddened to learn that the lives of Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN), his wife and daughter were tragically cut short today in the crash of a small plane in northern Minnesota.
		Senator Wellstone was a man of extraordinary conviction -- a true populist, as described by Paul Krugman in the attached op-ed column.
		Paul Wellstone fought hard for people who did not have easy access to the political process, including the more than 56 million children and adults with disabilities in the United States.
	www.namiscc.org /News/2002/Fall/PaulWellstone.htm (1646 words)

	Carleton College: Media Relations
		Wellstone was a passionate teacher who inspired students, as well as faculty and staff, to follow their convictions.
		Paul's colleagues discussed his enthusiasm for teaching, and former students recalled the impact Paul had on their lives.
		Senator Wellstone pauses for a moment on the green bus that he used for campaiging and for his first trip to Washington as a senator.
	www.carleton.edu /campus/news/wellstone.html (773 words)

	AlterNet: Paul Wellstone, Fighter
		Paul Wellstone is a hunted man. Minnesota's senior senator is not just another Democrat on White House political czar Karl Rove's target list, in an election year when the Senate balance of power could be decided by the voters of a single state.
		Wellstone is not running for cover; he is running to deliver a message about politics in a state and a nation that he believes to be far more progressive than the readers of political tea leaves in Washington could begin to imagine.
		Wellstone means it when he says "we." Despite Bush's aid to Coleman, Wellstone is keeping pace in fundraising thanks to an activist base that has provided 70,000 contributions averaging $48.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13279 (2944 words)

	Paul Wellstone
		Paul Wellstone would have loved that--not just for its echo of the labor movement's "don't mourn, organize" tradition that he cherished but for its essential optimism.
		Wellstone identified with the populist and progressive movements that arose in the upper Midwest in the early twentieth century.
		Wellstone always argued that the DFL--with its emphasis on ideology, solidarity and organizing--should serve as a model for the revitalization of the Democratic Party.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20021118/editors (1296 words)

	The "Plane Crash" of Senator Wellstone
		Wellstone reported that before the Senate vote on Iraq, Dick Cheney had warned him that bucking the administration could result in severe consequences for both him and the state of Minnesota.
		Wellstone was a vocal opponent of military aid to the Colombian government.
		Bush 41, Paul Wellstone was not a chicken shit, that epitaph is better reserved for you and your moronic son.
	www.oilempire.us /wellstone.html (10540 words)

	Was Paul Wellstone Murdered?
		That certainly was not the case with Paul Wellstone who was killed in a Beechcraft King Air 100, twin turboprop.
		In a Senate controlled 50-49 by the Democrats, Wellstone was perhaps the single one-man obstacle to Bush's fervent and stated desire to secure passage of the Homeland Security measure prior to a U.S. invasion of Iraq.
		Those suspicions gained credibility the next day when Wellstone and his staff were sprayed with glyphosate, a chemical that has been routinely documented as the cause of a variety of illnesses in the local population.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/110102_wellstone.html (3248 words)

	Remembering Paul Wellstone
		Paul knew community from the bottom of his soul and he knew the power of that community in the world.
		Paul led us, and by "us" I mean progressives throughout the country, to engage in real debate over the incorporation of electoral work into the broader spectrum of politics.
		Paul and Sheila came to my 50th birthday party last year and Paul told funny stories about some crazy things we had done and helped all of us to laugh about getting older but more passionate.
	www.motherjones.com /commentary/columns/2002/10/we_183_01.html (1502 words)

	TIME.com: Paul Wellstone: 1944-2002 -- Page 1
		Paul Wellstone, who died Friday in a plane crash, was known for being a forthright, passionate advocate for leftist causes, and for creating an atmosphere of honesty in the chamber where he worked.
		Wellstone was on his way to the funeral of the father of a state lawmaker.
		Wellstone was best known as a champion of labor, mental health care, veterans' issues and ending domestic violence.
	www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,384549,00.html (640 words)

	Paul Wellstone
		August 30, 2006 – 6:50 AM The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision to stop a lawsuit by the heirs of the copilot on the flight that killed Sen. Paul Wellstone and seven others.
		Wellstone's pilot balked at flying on morning of crash
		February 22, 2003 – 11:00 PM The captain of Sen. Paul Wellstone's fatal flight to Eveleth was so concerned about the weather that he briefly canceled the trip before deciding to go ahead with it, according to new information from crash investigators.
	www.startribune.com /stories/1752 (331 words)

	Shock of crash lingers -- Sen. Paul Wellstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Paul Scott, driver of Wellstone's famous green bus since the 1990 campaign, was gassing up and preparing to head north for a campaign swing that Friday mornng.
		Wellstone's oversized persona and stature as a leader of the left made the tragedy a national story.
		While Wellstone's supporters are trying to teach his organizing skills to activists around the country, no candidate has emerged in Minnesota to carry the liberal message in the way that he did.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1007861/posts (2170 words)

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