Twenty years after death, Wellstone’s
beloved Iron Range has shifted to the right
Posted By: NorthernDog, 10/25/2022 4:28:01 PM
Aaron J. Brown still remembers his last conversation with Paul Wellstone, the fiery liberal senator from Minnesota who stopped in to visit Brown’s newspaper office during the final push of his 2002 reelection campaign. “He didn’t know if he was gonna win, but he liked where he was,” Brown recalled of Wellstone’s thinking. Figuratively, Wellstone was in one of the toughest Senate races in the nation. Literally he also liked where he was, the Iron Range, almost 200 miles north of the populous Twin Cities, a region whose identity — political, financial and cultural — was forged in the iron
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Nancy Pelosi scoffs at idea 'anybody'
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Times interview 22 replies
would vote for a Republican, in New York
Times interview 22 replies
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by 10 points 9 replies
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I remember when his funeral was turned into a Partisan political rally. Dems always overreach.