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Dem Sen. Wellstone, Family
Members Killed In MN Plane Crash

10-25-2

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.
 
The sources said three staff members and two crew members also died in the crash.
 
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.
 
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."
 
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."
 
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 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.
 
Wellstone, 58, won his Senate seat in 1990, the only challenger that year to unseat an incumbent.
 
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.
 
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.
 
The crash leaves a void in the state's election for the Senate.
 
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.
 
The Republican National Committee had shown a strong interest in defeating Wellstone, known as one of the most liberal members of the Senate.
 
When the senator broke his promise to serve only two terms, Republicans took it as a challenge to ensure his defeat.
 
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/plane.crash.minn/index.html
 
 
 
Comment
 
From Sallie8001
10-25-2
 
 
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?
 
Bush is afraid of a Democratic Senate for fear it will impeach him. The balance for the Senate is at stake.
 
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.
 
From http://www.moveonpac.org/moveonpac/viewcandidates.phtml
 
"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."
 
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."
 
This is reminiscent of the 80's when many Congressmen and Senators went down in plane crashes.
 
The NWO gang will do anything to stay in power.
 
 
Comment
 
From NOBLE EAGLE NEWS
10-25-2
 
Jeff,
 
Are you noticing that once it was reported that Senator Wellstone was Dead the Stock Market Began to TAKE OFF ??
 
Shouldn't the opposite be happening? I mean, come on..... a Senator Just Died.
 
But no...The Big Corporate Interests are EXCITED and HAPPY that the Republicans will now control the Senate and Congress.
 
And the PResident, and will now appoint the most conservative judges, etc...
 
Wellstone's Death is GOOD for the Republican Agenda. That is why the Stock Market is RISING FAST.
 
The Evil Doers Have Struck Again. They are Celebrating the Death of this Liberal Democrat.
 
The Republicans will Control the World. And we are DOOMED.
 
 
Comment
 
From Anita Sands Hernandez
astrology@earthlink.net
10-25-2
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
They nailed him as he was entering the final phase of his trip. Laudatory stories on his proposed legislation:
 
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
 
 
Comment From Lost On Earth 10-25-2
 
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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