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LEARNPolitics the Wellstone Way:
How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues
Wellstone Action
Edited by Bill Lofy
In 2002, Wellstone sought a third term to the Senate and was sighted by the White House’s political operation as a top target for defeat. Despite his politically unpopular vote against the impending war in Iraq, polls showed him with a solid lead going into the final two weeks of the campaign. Then on October 25, 2002, Paul and Sheila, their daughter Marcia, and three campaign staffers, Tom Lapic, Will McLaughlin, and Mary McEvoy, were traveling to campaign events in northern Minnesota when their plane crashed near the Eveleth airport. There were no survivors.
Paul and Sheila Wellstone are survived by their two sons, Mark and David.
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