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Anti-War
senator
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Eveleth,
Minnesota, October 25 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Democratic
Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife and a daughter died Friday October 25 in
a small plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, Democratic sources said.
"The
senator logs hundreds of thousands of miles in small planes. He was
with his trusted pilots. The unthinkable happened," Agence
France-Presse (AFP) quoted his campaign manager Jeffrey Blodget as
saying.
CNN
quoted the Democratic sources as saying that three staff members and
two crew members also died in the crash.
Wellstone
was one of the few Democrats to vote against the recent resolution
authorizing the President George W. Bush to use force against Iraq.
His
death throws into question the Democratic Party's one seat majority in
the U.S. Senate.
The
U.S. Senate is currently controlled by the Democrats by one vote.
Normally,
Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, an independent, will have to appoint
a replacement.
Wellstone
was one of the most liberal and unconventional members of the Senate.
Wellstone,
58, won his Senate seat in 1990, the only challenger that year to
unseat an incumbent.
Wellstone
was a champion of health care coverage expansion and environmental
concerns, and was considered by many to be one of the Senate's most
liberal members
At
the time of his death, he was immersed in a tight race for reelection
against Republican Norm Coleman.
He
was known as a lively lawmaker who voted in line with his liberal
ideology.
The
plane went down in a wooded area about seven miles east of
Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport.
Officials
said bad weather was reported in the area, and the last contact with
the plane was at 10:20 a.m. when the plane was about two miles from
the Eveleth airport.
The
plane, a twin-engine turboprop King Air manufactured by Raytheon
Aircraft, took off from Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, a
southwestern suburb of Minneapolis.
He
was scheduled to attend a funeral in the northeast, followed by a
campaign stop in Duluth.
The
son of Russian immigrants, Wellstone was raised in Arlington,
Virginia, and was a champion wrestler at the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he earned both a bachelor's degree and
a doctorate.
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