Paul Wellstone

Paul Volcker: Okay We're Done Here, Toots.

DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

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Remembering Paul Wellstone, the Teacher

feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009

The short essay below is adapted from a chapter in my fascinating full-length mem-wah, The Radical Housewife. Today is the seventh anniversary of Paul Wellstone's death. I plan on celebrating in a way that does NOT include wallowing over the fact tha...

Candidates get Wellstone training

Bay Buzz (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009

BayBuzz popped in on the Camp Wellstone training weekend in Tampa on Sunday, the seven-year anniversary of the death of Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone. The three-day weekend drew more than 120 candidates, campaign workers and activists, mostly from Florida, but...

Dean Barkley Supports Lou Dobbs for President

Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

... October 2002 by Minnesota’s Governor at the time, Jesse Ventura, to fill the vacancy when Senator Paul Wellstone was killed. So although Barkley only served for a few months, he is the only minor party U.S. Senator since 1946, when Robert La Follette Jr. left the Wisconsin Progressive Party and became a Republican. In Connecticut in 2006, Joe Lieberman was elected to the Senate as...

In Ted Kennedy’s Honor, Let’s Pass ‘Kopechne Care’

Start Thinking Right (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

... are clearly doing. The Democratic politicization of Kennedy’s death hearkens to the so-called “Wellstone effect,” as Democrats showed their true colors “honoring” the death of Democrat Senator Paul Wellstone . And that has some influential conservative voices sounding the alarm and calling foul. While most prominent Republicans stuck Wednesday and Thursday to sober condolences...

Taking Right-Wing Economic Populism Seriously

Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

It's easy to write-off batshit crazy narcissists like Dick Armey and Sarah Palin as what they are: Batshit crazy narcissists. But as Wellstone Action's Jeff Blodgett reminds us in this blog post , Armey/Palin-ism does represent something real and potentially powerful, even if it is insane. Blodgett is a former aide and campaign manager for Paul Wellstone, so he knows a little bit...

Winning the 2010 elections

Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

In January of 1998, the news about Monica Lewinsky exploded in the Washington media world. It was 24-7, and red hot intense. Within 72 hours, Republicans were calling for Clinton's resignation or impeachment, and some Democrats- even some liberal ones like Paul Wellstone- were on the verge of doing the same. Clinton survived the first barrage of calls for him to step down, but as that...

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Blows Out Ten Candles

PEU Report (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009

... of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930’s is true in 2010.” Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN), who says: “Glass-Steagall was intended to protect our financial system by insulating commercial banking from other forms of risk. It was one of several stabilizers designed to keep a similar tragedy from recurring. Now Congress is about to repeal that economic...

Mike Lux: Winning the 2010 elections

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

In January of 1998, the news about Monica Lewinsky exploded in the Washington media world. It was 24-7, and red hot intense. Within 72 hours, Republicans were calling for Clinton's resignation or impeachment, and some Democrats- even some liberal ones like Paul Wellstone- were on the verge of doing the same. Clinton survived the first barrage of calls for him to step down, but as that...

• Winning the 2010 elections - Open Left

Will Galloway Support Correa?

The Liberal OC (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

... candidate who is a friend to labor and other progressive causes. True, Correa may not exactly be Paul Wellstone, but he has been there with us when push comes to shove and that’s what counts. Sue Perez works for TBN, and is a conservative religious fundamentalist. At a recent Young Democrats meeting, Lorri Galloway so passionately addressed her anger at the recent BOS decision to...

Howard and Ned, Together Again

The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009

... actually is--a moderate-to-liberal Greenwich millionaire businessman, more John Corzine than, say, Paul Wellstone.

"...then be angry and fight."

LyfLines (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009

... Ever since the week after 9/11/2001, anger has eluded memorial services (with the exception of Paul Wellstone’s memorial—that, somehow, was a moment of anger for the left). It is an American thing to pray, to be sorrowful, and then to be angry and fight. I hope we still have the stuff for the last two parts. Read it all.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

Shrink Rap (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

... American Psychological Association (sorry, it was a pdf file so there is not a direct link) on the Wellstone-Domenici Parity Act of 2008 : The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (The “Wellstone-Domenici Parity Act”) will end health insurance benefits inequity between mental health/substance use disorders and medical/surgical...

Primary, Anyone?

Madville Times (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009

... wing of the Democratic Party"? Let's put that question to our primary voters. Let's find a Paul Wellstone, a George McGovern (or an Al Franken'). Let's have a primary. Let's ask ourselves, our fellow Dems, and any and all fellow South Dakotans who care to register Independent what they think. We can all muster the maturity and good sense to have a very public and very vigorous...

Guest Commentary: Ending Employment Discrimination in America

Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009

... made in behalf of the worst kind of discrimination against Jewish people.” United States Senator Paul Wellstone, July 29, 1994 Responding to an extreme right spokesperson’s anti-gay testimony The late Senator Wellstone delivered that biting argument fifteen years ago, during an historic Senate hearing weighing the passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). ENDA...