wellstone memorial
Heading off to the Paul Wellstone memorial. I hope to drive by the Wellstone campaign headquarters as I haven’t seen that display yet. I’m happy that this amazing outpouring of grief and support has been organized. Interesting that Dick Cheney has been uninvited, I’m not exactly sure what that’s supposed to mean. I think this will be a great event that will both give space for grief and serve to galvanize Wellstone supporters to charge forward in the last week before the election. Although I will rally around “Fritz” and it will be nice to have an elder statesmen in office, I can’t help but mourn the fact that I won’t ever have had the chance to cast my vote for Paul. I was too young to vote for Paul the first time he ran (seeing those old advertisements for that campaign are great aren’t they?) and I was living (and voting) in Portland Oregon when he ran for re-election. This was going to be my first time casting for the “unabashed liberal” and I was warming up my number 2 pencil and counting down the days.

James Lileks has a nice bleat on Wellstone as does Slate. The NYTimes Obituary for Wellstone is good too. His book is still available too. More on Wellstone.