This week marks the 15th anniversary of the sudden death of Minnesota’s progressive Sen. Paul Wellstone in a plane crash. To many across the country, Wellstone remains iconic as the “conscience of the Senate” – a crusader and “noisy, unimpressive nuisance” who fought against big business and for workers, farmers, women, children, health care, Native Americans and the environment, and whose spirit lives on.
Via Common Dreams. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News with permission or license.