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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Paul Wellstone
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Paul Wellstone
Age: 58 †
Born: 1944
Born: July 21
Died: 2002
Died: October 25
Former United States Senator
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Washington
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Paul David Wellstone
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