We’re getting ready to post a tribute by Joe Conason. Here’s a response from Minnesotan Dr. Jane Dusek:
We are not doing well in Minnesota this afternoon. After hearing of the death of Sen. Paul Wellstone — one of the few lights of political honesty wewill ever see in this country — I got in my car and drove over to the Wellstone campaign headquarters in the Midway business district area of Saint Paul. I could not get near the place. The crush of media and police units was too great. There was nowhere to park. People milled around the entrance of the headquarters. The doors were locked … people kept trying the doors, to no avail. Folks from businesses across the street milled around on the sidewalks, there. Everyone was in shock. Everyone was stunned. As I pulled past the building, I saw a sight that nearly stopped me cold. A lone staff person, standing next to The Green Bus, Paul and Sheila’s well-known campaign icon. He was leaning in the railing, his head bowed in grief. That sight broke my heart. We don’t know what will happen, now, here in this state. We don’t know what will happen in the US Senate race, now, either. All I know, right now, is that none of us are doing well. And that we have all lost today. Lost big. |