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Paul Wellstone quote (Original Post) bbmykel Jan 2016 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author 1000words Jan 2016 #1
Great article bbmykel Jan 2016 #3
I do not believe "gone" SoLeftIAmRight Jan 2016 #2
It seems quite likely. hifiguy Jan 2016 #4
Most definitely. He's why "wellstoned" is a verb. nt valerief Jan 2016 #7
In the time between RFK's death and the emergence of Bernie hifiguy Jan 2016 #5
He was the very best of men. His voice is sorely missed. AtomicKitten Jan 2016 #6
I still have a Wellstone yard sign from that campaign. 99Forever Jan 2016 #8
Genuine speaktruthtopower Jan 2016 #9
Standing next to Mr. Wellstone on a pickett line was a Wellstone ruled Jan 2016 #10
Amy Martin wrote a lovely song dedicated to him. Link below. LiberalLoner Jan 2016 #11

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hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
4. It seems quite likely.
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 04:48 PM
Jan 2016

A friend of mine was co-piloting the plane carrying Norm Coleman to the Duluth debate that day. Her plane was within ten air miles of Wellstone's plane.

A few weeks after the crash she made this bone-chilling comment to me: "It's like that plane was swatted out of the sky. There was absolutely no reason for it to crash. None." Her opinion was that there were only two possible explanations, as the weather was nothing special - just drizzly, with no snow, ice or unusual winds: the pilot flew the plane straight into the ground or it was deliberately knocked out of the sky. And she's neither very political nor given to conspiracy theories. She was badly freaked out by that crash and had no plausible explanation for it.

It has always stunk of Cheney to me.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
5. In the time between RFK's death and the emergence of Bernie
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 04:51 PM
Jan 2016

there was no politician I admired than my wonderful Senator Wellstone.

I was devastated by his death.

"Some men see things as they are and ask "why?' I dream of things that never were and ask 'why not?'"

- Robert F. Kennedy

speaktruthtopower

(800 posts)
9. Genuine
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 05:23 PM
Jan 2016

I met Paul Wellstone on a plane shortly after he won his first election. Very friendly, regular guy, not an ounce of pretension. Could have used his voice in the Senate during the post 9/11 hysteria and the Iraq War vote.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. Standing next to Mr. Wellstone on a pickett line was a
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 05:25 PM
Jan 2016

pleasure until Cheney showed up. That statement,better watch your back son,will always haunt many of us who were in ear shot. Ask my neighbor who was with me,did he really say that,you got to be kidding,yes he did.

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