WRITTEN JUST BEFORE
SENATOR WAS MURDERED, WITH HIS WHOLE FAMILY!
Before the 2002 Presidential Election. Minnesota's senior senator was not just
another Democrat on White House political czar Karl Rove's target
list, in an election year when the Senate balance of power could be
decided by the voters of a single state.” Getting rid of
Wellstone is a passion for Rove, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and
the
special-interest lobbies that fund the most sophisticated
political
operation ever assembled by a presidential administration.
"There are
people in the White House who wake up in the morning thinking
about how
they will defeat Paul Wellstone," a senior Republican aide
confides.
"This one is political and personal for them."
decided to abandon a self-imposed two-term limit on his Senate
service
at least in part because of his determination to block Bush's
conservative agenda wears the target with pride. At a moment when
most
Democrats are still trying to figure out how to challenge a popular
President, the former college wrestler is leaping into the ring.
Wellstone is not running for cover; he is running to deliver a
message
about politics in a state and a nation that he believes to be far
more
progressive than the readers of political tea leaves in Washington
could
begin to imagine.
liberal, progressive positions and win in this country in
2002," says
Wellstone as he campaigns among Laotian immigrants on a sunny
spring
morning in St. Paul. "We're not running a race that asks
people to
vote for me because, as a Democrat, I will be a little more
compassionate, a little better for working families and children
and
immigrants, than a Republican. We want to draw the lines of
distinction.
I'm saying that there is a big difference between the America the
conservatives want and the America I want." He adds, "I
don't want this
to be just about me. This race has to be about basic questions of
whether liberals and progressives can flourish in national
politics.
That means there is a lot more on the line than whether Paul
Wellstone
wins or loses."
Wellstone is right. His race is being read as a measure of the potency
of progressive politics in America. If he wins, a blow will be
struck
not just against the Bush machine but against those in the
Democratic
Party who argue for tepid moderation. With Senate majority leader
Tom
Daschle and House minority leader Dick Gephardt still struggling to
identify the themes on which Democrats will stake their claim for
control of Congress later this year, Wellstone is refreshingly
different--he knows where he stands and he stands there proudly.
For
years, progressives have argued that Democrats will win big only
when
they distinguish themselves from Republicans on fundamental
economic and
social justice issues. Here is Wellstone--arguably the most
prominent
elected progressive in the country--doing just that.
Yet even as he follows the progressive playbook, Wellstone is no
sure
bet. In a state that gave America liberal Democratic icons like
Hubert
Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Walter Mondale, and that has not
backed
a Republican for President since 1972, current polls show Wellstone
running roughly even with Republican challenger Norm Coleman,a
former
mayor of St. Paul. To be sure, Coleman has benefited from being
"Bush's best boy" and from steady infusions of campaign
cash that are
available to the Administration's chosen ones. But the full
explanation
for Wellstone's tight spot is found in a more complex calculation
that
involves Wellstone himself, the changing character of the upper
Midwest, the flux in which the Democratic Party finds itself and
the
Machinations of the people who manipulated Bush into the highest
Office in the land.” Sure, the Bush Administration is targeting
Paul
This year, but Paul is never a shoo-in," says Myron Orfield, a
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) state senator widely
Regarded as one of the nation's top experts in the study of voting
Patterns. "Paul's a controversial guy. He's the little guy
who takes
On the big guys. That’s not something the political process is
designed to reward these days. If you take strong stands you put
yourself at risk--and Paul takes more strong stands on more issues
than just about anyone else."
just as a member of Congress but as a member of a movement. He
identifies with progressives, organizes family-farm rallies in
Washington, marches with striking hotel workers and dares to title
a
book The Conscience of a Liberal. That does not mean that
Wellstone is
the unbending leftist that his critics allege and that many of his
supporters would prefer. The man who began burning bridges with
the Bush
family when he challenged then-President Bush's Persian Gulf War
preparations on their first meeting ("Who is this
chickenshit?" Bush Sr.
asked) may be the Senate's boldest foe of the Star Wars national
missile defense program and of increased military aid to Colombia.
But
he disappointed peace activists when he joined a unanimous Senate
vote
to authorize an ill-defined military response to the September 11
attacks and dismayed civil libertarians when he refused to join
Senator Russell Feingold's solo opposition to constitutionally
dubious
Antiterrorism legislation.
Still, Wellstone has few rivals on the left side of the Senate aisle.
Congressional Quarterly says no senator had a more consistent
record
of voting against Bush Administration proposals during the new
President's first year. Wellstone racks up 100 percent ratings from
the AFL-CIO, Americans for Democratic Action and the League of
Conservation Voters. He is the veteran grassroots organizer hailed
by
consumer activists for waging a three-year battle to temper the
draconian "bankruptcy reform" bill pushed by the credit
card industry.
He is the former college professor who has been the chief Senate
voice
of those who maintain that education-reform initiatives must
involve
better measures of success than standardized tests. He is the
crusader
for disability rights and healthcare reform who--since he was diagnosed
in February as having a mild form of multiple sclerosis--is in
demand
not merely as an advocate but as a very human example of what the
struggles are about. The Minneapolis Star Tribune recently
described him
as "the go-to guy to advance the causes of educators,
consumer and labor groups, the elderly and THE POOR"
Now that you’re read that VIEW: A comprehensive look into the official story of the supposed "accident" ..interviews and analysis of witnesses, first responders and the official report of the fatal crash - October 25, 2002 - including much of the information that the FBI ignored or suppressed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-bmmpoDndw
WHY DID THEY KILL HIM? MAYBE he was
INVESTIGATING THE MISSING 59 BILLION over at H.U.D. which BUSH Et Cie coulda
pilfered> Catherine Austin Fitts, the ex HUD Secretary was sure whistleblowing about this
missing moola in the media, click on that URL, ^ only part in German,
rest English. A citizen sent the facts to WELLSTONE who was running against
BUSH, would have Beat W with this hot info. SEE ANOTHER REASON WHY poor Paul and his
family were MURDERED !
APPENDIX NUMBER ONE
LAST LETTERS TO AN ASSASINATED SENATOR
Dear Senator: 59 Billion are Missing at HUD
Dear Senator Wellstone: 7-22-02
Thank you for your 6-19-02 reply to my 6-04-02
letter concerning 59 BILLION dollars missing from HUD for fiscal 1999.
Incidentally, your letter was just received on 7-20-02. It took a month to
reach me. I am attaching a copy of my 6-04-02 letter for you and the good folks
at the St.Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune and KQRS Radio so they
will can follow along. In your response you say "I have forwarded your
correspondence to the appropriate officials for further review and have
requested that they contact you directly with their reponse." That is the
only part of your letter in which you addressed the questions in my letter. I
may be wrong but it sounds to me like you are saying that 59 BILLION taxpayer
dollars missing and unaccounted for by a federal
government agency is not your department...not your
concern. Is this correct? Why would you feel that 59 BILLION taxpayer dollars
missing from a federal agency is something that does not warrant your personal
involvement? If you personally are not concerned or involved with 59 BILLION
taxpayer dollars missing from just ONE federal agency in just ONE year, then
please tell me at what point you do get involved and concerned?
And who are the "appropriate officials"
that you passed your responsibility off to? I would dearly love to know who the
"appropriate officials" are for getting back our 59 BILLION dollars.
And I repeat my questions in that 6-04-02 letter: What HUD accounting firm got
paid well to lose(or loot) 59 BILLION taxpayer dollars? Are they still doing
the books? What are you doing to get our money back? I can tell you that
Senator Dayton is refusing to answer questions about huge amounts of missing
money within the DOD too. I have written him twice...once on 5-25-02 and on
6-23-02 asking about the GAO documented 3.3 TRILLION dollars missing from the
DOD from fiscal 1997 to date. This
is money that Secretary Rumfield admits is missing.
Senator Dayton simply refuses to even reply. I suspect you guys are avoiding
this because it will open a pandora's box and show the same corrupt book
cooking going on under your own noses within the federal agencies, that you are
now jumping on corporate America for. After all, the same accounting firms are
involved with the federal agencies that are invovled with the Enron's and
Worldcom's. And, as far as I know, those accounting firms are still very much
employed by our federal agencies. So, please be advised that I am now also
including the issue of the 3.3 TRILLION taxpayer dollars missing from the DOD
to call to your
attention. Is this amount large enough to warrant
your personal concern and attention? By separate letter I will give you
specific questions to address concerning the 59 BILLION missing from HUD and
the 3.3 TRILLION missing from the DOD. I hope these specific questions will
bring specific responses. Original letter enclosed below.
Sincerely,
Rick Ensminger
15789 Highview Dr.
Apple Valley, Mn. 55124
The earlier,ORIGINAL LETTER TO WELLSTONE:
Dear Senator Wellstone: 6-04-02
I just read an article by Kelly O'Meara of Insight
Magazine that says HUD is "missing" 59 BILLION taxpayer dollars for
fiscal 1999!! How can there be 59 BILLION taxpayer dollars unaccounted for in
one agency for just one year? HUD Inspector General Susan Gaffney says she
doesn't know
where the money went!! CFO Victoria Bateman doesn't
know where the money went!! Fifty Nine BILLION is a lot more than a
"computer glitch" problem. HUD's money moved thru a bank didn't it?
They should be able to take bank records and find where the money went, can't
they?
And then I read where Ollie North said, "HUD is
like a candy store for covert revenues." What is going on here with HUD
and our tax money? What accounting firm is getting paid well to lose(or loot)
59 BILLION taxpayer dollars? Is the same firm still doing their books? Is it
the often sued American Management Systems? Is it, God forbid, Arthur Anderson?
What are you doing to get our tax money back? I am outraged at this apparent
flood-stage fleecing of our tax money!! I want to know what you are doing about
it. Are you making any effort to find out where our hard earned money is going
and why there is no accountability for where it goes?
Sincerely,
Rick Ensminger
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