Wendy Introwitz Pareene
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:58:55 -0800
Saturday afternoon as I was driving to work I dialed around and heard a local talk show host on KSTP fielding calls from people who were discussing why they disliked Paul Wellstone. One caller scoffed that Senator Wellstone was being canonized by liberals while he was the furthest thing from a saint, another caller said that Senator Wellstone was a murderer for supporting abortion-choice and she essentially said he got what he deserved.
I was so sickened. This was the very day after the Senator's untimely death. That show host and radio station demonstrated to me why the "right" needs to be feared by the average U.S. citizen. These callers, the show host and the radio station demonstrated a lack of decency, a lack of respect for others, and a sheer cold-heartedness that would have made Stalin, Hitler, and the Taliban proud. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mpls] Re: Inconsiderate conservatives? Tim Neuenschwander, understandably grief-stricken by the death of Senator Wellstone, is filled with rage by someone holding a Coleman sign and "smirking". I wish he had more fully described what this fellow was doing to inspire such rage. It seems from what Tim wrote that he was simply holding a sign for Coleman and smiling, and I think it's a pretty huge leap for Tim to make to assume that he was smiling at the news of Wellstone's death. For all we know the fellow might have been simply enjoying what he was doing, having a good day promoting his candidate, and not have heard the news at all. Let's not leap to conclusions, shall we? I seldom agreed with the Senator's policies, and worked on both of Senator Boschwitz' campaigns against him, but you had to admire his sincerity and obvious devotion to the causes he supported. You don't have to like someonme to respect them, but I think it says volumes about the Senator's character that arch-conservative icons such as Jesse Helms could honestly call him friend. I suspect Tim is jumping to conclusions. We conservatives may not have liked Paul Wellstone. and may have done our damnedest to defeat him, but to imply that we celebrate his death is vile and beneath contempt. On the contrary, we were contacted by the state party on Friday night and asked to refrain from campaigning this weekend as a sign of respect - which I have done. God bless him and his sons. Having lost my own father two years ago this December, I know what they're going through. Kevin Trainor RPM Candidate HD 61A East Phillips www.taxpayersfortrainor.org _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@;mnforum.org Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls