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Wellstone was pulling ahead in the polls, and the victory of a man who voted against the war resolution would have been a great embarrassment to the Bush administration. This was a convenient death.By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / January 5, 2009 It is likely that Al Franken could be named this week as the winner of the disputed Senatorial election in Minnesota. He would be taking the seat...
Franken's idol, mentor and the number one reason for running is the late Sen. PaulWellstone. You may not agree with his policy, he strongly supports the middle class, poor and those without a voice. He is a liberal to be sure. But what I believe will characterize his career as Senator from Minnesota, will be his integrity and honesty in office. Anything but such an approach would be...
One of my hopes for Al Franken, besides getting the execrable Coleman out of the nation's hair and off of its payroll, is that he will really use his status as an outsider and image as an oddball to shake things up -- that he'll be something like PaulWellstone, but shrewder, hiding behind saying, "Hey, the people of Minnesota new what they were getting, and that's what I'm going to be,"...
The Rude Pundit weighs in on Senator Franken's singlehanded un-pussification of 2000 and 2004. When Al Franken decided to run for the Senate in Minnesota, it was as one type of crusade, to redeem the seat of PaulWellstone, ripped away by Wellstone's death in a plane crash and then by Republican subterranean ratfuckers, who manipulated Wellstone's memorial into some kind...
9. Coleman became the mayor of St. Paul in 1994 as a member of the DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) Party. Many praised him for his efforts to revitalize the city and to bring the Minnesota Wild hockey team to the city. However, he frequently found himself in conflict with more liberal members of the party. In 1996, he was sometimes booed at party events or excluded from them, even though he was...
If the Al Franken victory holds up, as it looks likely to do , it will be excellent news for Minnesota and a sweet moment for those of us who wept to see Norm take the Senate seat that should have been PaulWellstone's. I met Franken [...]
Norm Coleman's term has expired, along with nearly all his reasonable options to hold his seat. A Republican, Coleman was always an odd pick to replace the more liberal PaulWellstone (D), a plane crash victim.
Amazing. Let us recall that Norm Coleman should never have been elected to fill PaulWellstone’s seat. So this news is so very sweet to hear. But know that Norm Coleman will fight to undo the vote tallies. Norm Coleman will seek a court to undo the vote total, as undermining the will of the people is [...]
Remember how, back in 2002, the nutters attacked Al Franken because some nutters got booed during PaulWellstone's funeral? To this day, there are still a lot of people, including Democrats, who've bought the right wing line on the Wellstone Memorial. Specifically, that it was a cynical, premeditated political event that included endless booing of Republican politicians who came...
... by defeating Walter Mondale, the former Democratic presidential candidate who stood in for Sen. PaulWellstone. Wellstone died in a plane crash during his 2002 reelection campaign. But after the announcement, there will be a seven-day waiting period before an election certificate is completed. If any lawsuits are filed during that waiting period, certification is conditional...
... W. Bush to discuss the oil-for-children’s-food scandal over lunch at the presidential library. PaulWellstone must be having a laughing fit in heaven. TGY says at - Haha, ‘finianciopaths’. Once you label one, you’ll discover they’re *all* that way; that the market encourages to be that way; that those who aren’t ‘financiopaths’ are the rare exceptions. mylesfromnowhere says at - So...
... come to rue the decision six years later. Of the Senators seeking re-election in 2002, only one — PaulWellstone, bless his soul — voted against it. Wellstone gave that speech knowing it could cost him the election; it wouldn’t have, but it could have. No other Democrat was as brave. 20 other Democrats, one Republican, and one independent did join with Wellstone, but...
... come to rue the decision six years later. Of the Senators seeking re-election in 2002, only one — PaulWellstone, bless his soul — voted against it. Wellstone gave that speech knowing it could cost him the election; it wouldn’t have, but it could have. No other Democrat was as brave. 20 other Democrats, one Republican, and one independent did join with Wellstone, but...
... Al Franken. Do you have to have legislative experience to be a good senator? Not always. PaulWellstone went from being a poli-sci prof to the Senate and was an effective spokesman for his liberal causes. Sam Hayakawa went from being an English prof to senator on the GOP side; he gave us the great quote from the Panama Canal treaty debate-"Why should we give it back? We stole it fair...
