Sunday, October 14, 2018

Wellstone Memorial


Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was an American academicauthor, and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash in Eveleth, Minnesota, in 2002. A member of the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Wellstone was a leader of the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party.

On October 25, 2002, Wellstone, along with seven others, died in an airplane crash in northern Minnesota, at 10:22 a.m. He was 58 years old. The other victims were his wife, Sheila; one of his three children, Marcia; the two pilots, and campaign staffers Mary McEfoy, Tom Lapic and Will McLaughlin. The airplane was en route to Eveleth, where Wellstone was to attend the funeral of Martin Rukavina, a steelworker whose son Tom Rukavina served in the Minnesota House of Representatives. Wellstone decided to go to the funeral instead of a rally and fundraiser in Minneapolis attended by Mondale and fellow Senator Ted Kennedy. He was to debate Norm Coleman in Duluth, Minnesota, that same night.
(Credit: Wikipedia)

Beloved by many, his absence is still sorely missed in the political arena.

More Wellstone quotes:A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

We all do better, when we all do better.


7 comments:

  1. Mr Wellstone would be much appreciated in these days of turmoil Kate, they were all too young to go this way ✨
    P.s. believe me I absolutely agree about auto correct, such a nuisance!

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  2. We could use him in this day and age.

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  3. I remember Senator Wellstone. He would be greatly appreciated in today's world.

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  4. He was a great loss, and I agree with Grace's comment.

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  5. Gosh! Familiar name. I'd forgotten the details, though.

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  6. I like the last quote.

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  7. I recognized the name but forgot the story. There were a good many like him that we could use today. It seems that bullying and self interest have become a national sport.

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