A Year Later, Senate is a Different Place without Wellstone

[Lydia Leftcoast]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1752/4161457.html


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On Capitol Hill, the letters keep coming for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone.

Jeffrey Levensaler, Wellstone's former office manager and deputy chief of staff, opens them at his condo after he leaves work. Unpaid bills. Correspondence from the Department of Defense. Cards for the senator's sons, David and Mark. Letters trying to influence votes, including a recent inquiry asking why Wellstone still wants to tax estates.

"Some of it stuns me, that people in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are still sending Paul letters," Levensaler said.

Nearly one year after the Minnesota Democrat died in a plane crash, Wellstone is hardly a forgotten man, but the U.S. Senate is a different place, for different reasons...
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This article also contains a link to an interview with Rick Kahn, who gave the eulogy that got the Republicans' undies in a twist.

[DemoTex]

1. Goodnight Lydia Leftcoast

Goodnight Democracy.

[RamboLiberal]

2. Thank you for posting that

What a wonderful article. I miss Paul Wellstone, and how much better this country would've been with "our warrior".