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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's upset victory in 1990 and subsequent re-election in 1996 was also credited to a massive grass-roots campaign, which inspired college students, poor people and people of color to get involved in politics for the very first time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Wellstone   (2713 words)

  
 MPR: Sheila Wellstone - a partner in activism
Sheila Wellstone was a tireless advocate for various issues, particularly involving domestic violence.
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) Sheila Wellstone, who died in a plane crash Friday in Minnesota with her husband, U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, and their daughter, was a Kentucky native who campaigned against domestic violence.
The Wellstones and their daughter, Marcia, were among eight people killed when the plane went down in freezing rain and light snow near the Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200210/25_khoom_wellstoneobit/sheila.shtml   (528 words)

  
 MINCAVA: In Memory of Paul and Sheila Wellstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Wellstone Action is a non-profit organization dedicated to continuing Paul and Sheila Wellstone's fight for progressive change and economic justice.
And Sheila Wellstone, his wife, was equally passionate and influential on the issue.
Senator Wellstone provided leadership for the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, which has led to unprecedented improvements in the ability of communities across the country to respond to the perpetrators and victims of domestic violence.
www.mincava.umn.edu /wellstone.shtml   (2217 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)

  
 Sen. Paul Wellstone was 'the real thing'
Wellstone had been an undergraduate at Carolina and was in his second year of grad school when Stimson arrived in 1966.
Wellstone was pursuing a third term in the Senate when he and his wife and daughter and members of his campaign staff were killed in a plane crash on Oct. 25.
Wellstone became a passionate supporter of Robert Kennedy from the time he got into the race until he was assassinated in Los Angeles that July.
www.unc.edu /depts/polisci/news_items/alumni_news/2002/wellstone2.html   (1980 words)

  
 UMD News: May 7, 2002
Sheila Wellstone, wife and working partner of U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone and nationally recognized for her leadership as an advocate against family violence, will be the featured speaker at UMD commencement ceremonies set for Saturday, May 18 at 12 noon at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (DECC).
Sheila works with her husband to create federal legislation that will help to achieve the goal of violence-free families and communities.
Sheila, together with Senator Wellstone, was instrumental in the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the first comprehensive bill to address this growing international problem.
www.d.umn.edu /news/2002/May/07-B.html   (431 words)

  
 Paul Wellstone
After Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, their daughter, Marcia, three campaign aides and two pilots died in a plane crash in northern Minnesota on October 25, Feingold recalled how before either of them was elected they would talk about how remarkable it would be if guys like them sat in the Senate.
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   (1330 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Ralph Nader tribute to Paul Wellstone
The memorial service for Senator Wellstone, his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia at the Washington Hebrew Congregation in Washington, DC on November 13, 2002 was a fitting and diverse tribute from their two sons, Mark and David, Senatorial colleagues, staff and friends.
In the Senate, Wellstone was identified by his support for raising the frozen minimum wage, for renewable energy and for opposition to corporate lobbyists who demand corporate welfare, tax escapes (to Bermuda tax havens), and lax enforcement of the corporate crime laws.
The Wellstones understood to their core the meaning of Jean Monnet's words -- "Without people nothing is possible, but without institutions nothing is lasting." The essence of community is the banding together of people to do for themselves and posterity what they could not do alone -- both in the civic society and in government.
www.democraticunderground.com /cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=18316&forum=DCForumID60   (1349 words)

  
 Sen. Wellstone, wife Sheila, daughter Marcia killed in airplane crash   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Wellstone, a Democrat, 58, was first elected in 1990 and was just completing a second term.
Wellstone was said to be slightly in the lead over his closest challenger, Republican Norm Coleman, former mayor of St. Paul.
The Wellstones have two surviving sons David and Mark.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.
www.hometownsource.com /capitol/2002/october/25wellstone.html   (392 words)

  
 Herald-Review - Grand Rapids, Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This 90-minute film explores the origin of Paul Wellstone’s politics, his upset election against Rudy Boschwitz to the U.S. Senate, his deep bond with his wife and "co-senator" Sheila, and the legacy of a life of progressive populism.
The final documentary is in three parts: Wellstone's influences and background; his career as a senator and participation in social movements; and a look at Wellstone's legacy and what's next for progressive politics.
Wellstone's boyhood, his family life with Sheila, his battle to keep his job as a Carleton College professor, and his development as an activist are included.
www.grandrapids-mn.com /placed/index.php?sect_rank=3&story_id=187680   (945 words)

  
 Wellstone! DVD
Since Paul and Sheila’s tragic death from a plane crash only 11 days before the 2002 election – also killed were their daughter Marcia and five others – progressives have been in search of someone who speaks to our values.
"Wellstone!" traces the life of Paul and Sheila as young high school sweet hearts from Virginia, to organizing the poor in Durham, North Carolina while Paul was a graduate student, to Paul’s entrance at Carlton College in Minnesota as an unconventional political science professor.
And the film gives Sheila Wellstone her due for her tireless advocacy for victims of domestic violence, her role as a key advisor and partner to her husband throughout their lives, and her dedication to raising her family and three children, David, Mark, and Marcia.
www.buzzflash.com /reviews/05/rev05027.html   (700 words)

  
 Carleton College: Media Relations
The Paul and Sheila Wellstone Fund for Community Engagement is being established with gifts received in memory of Paul and Sheila Wellstone.
Wellstone was a passionate teacher who inspired students, as well as faculty and staff, to follow their convictions.
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)

  
 Tubman Family Alliance Remembers Paul & Sheila Wellstone
For nearly 12 years, Paul and Sheila Wellstone crisscrossed Minnesota—and the country—talking, meeting and sharing with people who had experienced the heartbreak and pain of domestic violence and the confusion often left in its wake.
Wellstone authored a provision in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to provide training to school administrators, faculty, and staff to address the impact of exposure to domestic violence and dating violence on students and schools.
Sheila saw the power of their artistic voices immediately and arranged to have the art, posters and artists brought to Washington.
www.harriettubman.org /wellstone.htm   (1838 words)

  
 UE News: Paul Wellstone, Labor's Senator, Perishes in Plane Crash
Wellstone was traveling to Eveleth to attend the funeral of a father of a friend and political ally.
Wellstone, an advocate of a national health care system and real labor law reform, would remind audiences that he was from "The Democratic wing of the Democratic Party." His first and last speeches in the Senate were in opposition to wars with Iraq sought by a President named Bush.
The son of immigrant Russian Jews, Wellstone was raised in Arlington, Va. He starred as a college wrestler at the University of North Carolina, where he earned a bachelor’s degree and doctorate in political science.
www.ranknfile-ue.org /uen_1202_wellstone.html   (689 words)

  
 NPR : Sen. Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002
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/index.html   (836 words)

  
 Sheila Wellstone's Senate Career
Sheila Wellstone said she was attracted to domestic violence issues for the simplest of reasons: "I find it absolutely intolerable to think that a woman's home can be the most violent, most dangerous and oftentimes the most deadly place she can be," Sheila explained.
In the late 1990s, Sheila Wellstone was an activist on behalf of moves to modify welfare-to-work requirements in order to ease the burden on abuse victims — testifying before state legislators on behalf of using waivers made possible under the Family Violence Amendment that Paul had been instrumental in passing.
On the morning Paul and Sheila Wellstone died, the media was reporting that one of the suspects in the Washington, D.C., sniper case was being held under a federal law designed to prohibit people who have been placed under a restraining order for domestic violence from possessing firearms.
www.thenation.com /blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=130   (1452 words)

  
 Remembering Paul Wellstone - Salon
Paul and Sheila Wellstone, along with their only daughter, Marcia, and five others, died Friday on a rainy, snowy fall day on northeast Minnesota's Iron Range.
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.
During the 1980s, as their kids got older, he and Sheila were able to devote more of their time to the struggle for justice.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/10/29/wellstone/index.html   (1215 words)

  
 In Memoriam: Paul and Sheila Wellstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Wellstone, D-Minn., was often the sole voice for women, children, the disadvantaged and disheartened, always speaking out for those who had no voice in the halls of Congress or other corridors of elite power.
Sheila Wellstone, Paul's greatest resource and strength, dedicated her time and energy to eradicating violence and sexual assault from the lives of children, women and families.
NOW members everywhere are in shock and in mourning, but nonetheless determined to renew our spirits in honor of Paul and Sheila Wellstone and use that energy to bring to this country a new awakening and a new dedication that will do justice to their memory.
www.now.org /nnt/fall-2002/wellstone.html   (1055 words)

  
 Rybak Remembers Paul and Sheila Wellstone.
Paul Wellstone never forgot what it was like to be an outsider, even after eight years in the world's most exclusive club.
Sheila would later confide that it was hard for Paul to see Roger and me run through the crowd while he slowly made his way through what must have been a painful hike.
Paul and Sheila Wellstone were heroes and mentors and friends, but we can't do them justice if we simply mourn this indescribable tragedy.
www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us /mayor/speeches/20021114-wellstonetribute.asp   (439 words)

  
 Paul Wellstone, Champion Of The Little Guy :: Dave Lohse remembers U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone from Minnesota.
Diminutive in stature at 5-5, Paul Wellstone would never back down from a fight, whether it was on the wrestling mat at the University of North Carolina or in debate on the floor of the United States Senate.
Sheila left the University of Kentucky to be in Chapel Hill that summer.
Sheila became pregnant and shortly thereafter their first child David, now 36, was born at what was then called North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill.
tarheelblue.cstv.com /sports/m-wrestl/spec-rel/103002aab.html   (1031 words)

  
 CNN.com - Thousands pay tribute to Wellstone - Oct. 30, 2002
Wellstone's trademark resolve and love for his state shone through in the eulogies given by his friends and family.
Wellstone's communications director, Jim Farrell, had said he wanted it to be a "populist memorial" with an informal feel, and it was.
Sheila Wellstone was selfless and nurturing to her many children and grandchildren, son David Wellstone said.
archives.cnn.com /2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/29/elec02.mn.s.memorial/index.html   (1281 words)

  
 WellstoneAction
Wellstone Action is a new tax exempt organization formed to continue Paul and Sheila Wellstone's passion for and commitment to advancing progressive social change and economic justice.
A consistent theme threading through Paul and Sheila Wellstone's lives was the encouraging and empowering of average citizens to participate in campaigns, in community organizations, and be active in creating progressive change.
A Camp Wellstone would be a 2 ½ day (usually over a weekend) training session for people who want an introduction to political and organizing work in the way Paul and Sheila Wellstone practiced it.
www.larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com /WellstoneAction.html   (644 words)

  
 Wellstones
Wellstone Action, a tax-exempt organization formed to carry on their work.
Paul and Sheila Wellstone worked on it with every moment of their time and with every ounce of their energy.
She had met Paul and Sheila's daughter, Marcia Wellstone Markuson, who also died in the crash, just one week before, commenting on how she had so much energy.
www.larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com /Wellstones.html   (2760 words)

  
 Sheila Wellstone, Unsung Women's Rights Activist
The death of Sheila Wellstone, one of the most influential Senate spouses, meant the loss of a leader who brought about historic changes for battered women and welfare mothers in the United States.
Sheila Ison Wellstone was a Kentucky native, described as shy by some.
Sheila Wellstone could be as caustic as her husband in harpooning some of the conservative's policies on children.
www.womensenews.org /article.cfm?aid=1099   (860 words)

  
 Politics the Wellstone Way
Paul David Wellstone was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, born in 1944 and raised in Arlington, Virginia.
At an early age, Wellstone displayed the intensity and passion that would come to define his career.
At sixteen, Paul met Sheila Ison at a beach on the Maryland shore.
www.upress.umn.edu /wellstoneactionbook/Wellstonebios.html   (211 words)

  
 MPR: Wellstone legacy may be reflected in new community center
In its place will be built the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building, at a cost of more than $25 million.
"Once the family members, especially David and Mark Wellstone, indicated that this was their first priority in terms of where a suitable memorial should be funded by the Congress, I think that pretty much decided the matter in terms of what project and where," Dayton said.
Wellstone identified with Neighborhood House, according to president Dan Hoxworth, because he was the son of Russian immigrant Jews.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2003/10/21_mccalluml_wellstone   (941 words)

  
 Politics the Wellstone Way
That fall, Paul and Sheila Wellstone settled into the early years of a marriage that would span thirty-nine years.
Wellstone went on to complete his Ph.D. in political science at North Carolina and, at age twenty-four, accepted a teaching position at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
As a professor, Wellstone focused on questions of economic justice and poverty and began engaging in local community-organizing projects in rural areas.
www.upress.umn.edu /wellstoneactionbook/Wellstonebios2.html   (194 words)

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