- EVELETH, Minnesota (CNN)
-- Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia
died Friday in a small plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, Democratic
sources said.
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- The sources said three staff members and two crew members
also died in the crash.
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- The plane went down in a wooded area about seven miles
east of Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport. Officials said bad weather
was reported in the area, and the last contact with the plane was at 10:20
a.m. when the plane was about two miles from the Eveleth airport.
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- Choking back tears, a Senate colleague expressed his
sympathy. "He was such a good man, and his wife too," said Sen.
Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont. "All of these people had families and they
had friends and this is a horrible, horrible thing."
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- Such sentiments were echoed by Republicans. "He
always just had a love for every person because you knew everything that
he was talking about he deeply believed in and deeply cared about,"
said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas. "And then he cared deeply about
the people around him. He was a very engaging person."
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- 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.
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- The plane, a twin-engine turboprop King Air manufactured
by Raytheon Aircraft, took off from Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie,
a southwestern suburb of Minneapolis. He was scheduled to attend a funeral
in the northeast, followed by a campaign stop in Duluth.
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- Wellstone, 58, won his Senate seat in 1990, the only
challenger that year to unseat an incumbent.
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- 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.
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- Wellstone was a champion of health care coverage expansion
and environmental concerns, and was considered by many to be one of the
Senate's most liberal members.
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- The crash leaves a void in the state's election for the
Senate.
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- Under Minnesota law, if a nominee in a Senate race dies
during a campaign, his or her political party can select a replacement
candidate no later than four days before the general election. Election
Day this year is November 5.
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- The Republican National Committee had shown a strong
interest in defeating Wellstone, known as one of the most liberal members
of the Senate.
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- When the senator broke his promise to serve only two
terms, Republicans took it as a challenge to ensure his defeat.
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- http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/plane.crash.minn/index.html
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- Comment
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- From Sallie8001
10-25-2
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- Wellstone was also adamantly against the invasion
of Iraq, wanted private investigations into WTC disaster, and pointed
out prior knowledge of 9-11. He was also against Homeland Security, and
the Patriot Act. Is this a warning to other senators, not to go against
Bush and to vote for anything that is put in front of them i.e. the Patriot
Act?
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- Bush is afraid of a Democratic Senate for fear it will
impeach him. The balance for the Senate is at stake.
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- Since the Sniper is moving out of the news, now we will
have another story(s) of containment and diversion i.e. Sen Wellstone's
bio,funeral, photo ops by everybody, and media glitz to take your mind
off of all the current events of the economy, Iraq, and N. Korea.
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- From http://www.moveonpac.org/moveonpac/viewcandidates.phtml
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- "Senator Paul Wellstone's predicament is typical.
Wellstone is in the political fight of his life -- slightly behind in
the polls to a far-right candidate flush with cash and hand-picked by Karl
Rove to remove him from office. Wellstone knew that if he voted against
the resolution, his opponent would seize on the issue, unleashing a barrage
of attack ads and accusations. But despite the enormous pressure to capitulate,
Wellstone spoke his conscience and voted against the war: "A pre-emptive
go-it-alone strategy towards Iraq is wrong. I oppose it."
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- For taking a stand under the most difficult of circumstances,
Senator Wellstone is nothing less than a hero. In the House, three heroic
Representatives in tight races also did the right thing. They deserve
our strong support."
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- This is reminiscent of the 80's when many Congressmen
and Senators went down in plane crashes.
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- The NWO gang will do anything to stay in power.
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- Comment
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- From NOBLE EAGLE NEWS
10-25-2
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- Jeff,
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- Are you noticing that once it was reported that Senator
Wellstone was Dead the Stock Market Began to TAKE OFF ??
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- Shouldn't the opposite be happening? I mean, come on.....
a Senator Just Died.
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- But no...The Big Corporate Interests are EXCITED and
HAPPY that the Republicans will now control the Senate and Congress.
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- And the PResident, and will now appoint the most conservative
judges, etc...
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- Wellstone's Death is GOOD for the Republican Agenda.
That is why the Stock Market is RISING FAST.
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- The Evil Doers Have Struck Again. They are Celebrating
the Death of this Liberal Democrat.
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- The Republicans will Control the World. And we are DOOMED.
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- Comment
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- From Anita Sands Hernandez
astrology@earthlink.net
10-25-2
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- Sen. Wellstone was murdered just like Sen. Carnahan.
They did it to Carnahan so Ashcroft could benefit. Blew his plane up in
the sky. http://www.steamshovelpress.com/fromeditor6.html
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- A great loss to America. But this may make his works
resurface in media, all of them together. Watch for news on this one and
contribute to it, by going to URLS given below, and doing a google search
on his proposed legilsation.
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- Wellstone was the premiere liberal ... always voted
his conscience! Was a gadfly in the hair of corporate America, the Archer
Daniels crowd, and in the wigs of the oil guys who wanted IRAQ war. Wellstone
fought them on all of that. He would be the ONE man the wealth cartel or
Texas 10 as I call them, would want to get rid of .... a simple disconnect
of the plane's de-icing device would be the cause.
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- They nailed him as he was entering the final phase of
his trip. Laudatory stories on his proposed legislation:
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- http://www.defenders.org/fb/articles/article802.html
http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/051702.htm http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/may99/051899h.htm
http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=2522
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- Comment From Lost On Earth 10-25-2
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- He has just died in an airplane accident, just like Carnahan
in 2000. And the airplane accident in Alaska years ago which killed Congressman
Hale Boggs who was critical of the government has never been solved. There
are more. Think it is possible that at critical junctures certain "opponents"
of those in power are killed? Naaaaaaaah...that could never happen.
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