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Campaigns mourn the death of Sen. Wellstone
By John Mercurio
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The sudden, tragic death of Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minnesota, on Friday threw campaign schedules upside down, in Minnesota and across the country. Several Senators, most notably his best friend in the Senate, Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, tearfully remembered Wellstone as a "down-to-earth" public servant and a tireless fighter for the disadvantaged. Wellstone was 58. Shortly after he learned Wellstone had died Friday morning in a plane crash in northeastern Minnesota, former Vice President Al Gore placed all campaign-related events "on hold," although the Maine Democratic Party later announced Gore would travel to Bangor on Saturday to headline a dinner honoring the Minnesotan. However, the following events were still scheduled to take place through Monday.
October 26
•Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, will attend a Palm Beach County barbecue at noon today, followed by a precinct walk and yet another barbecue in Pinellas County this afternoon. •Meanwhile, the Florida governor's son, George P. Bush, continues his statewide college tour stumping for his dad's re-election bid. Fresh off of Friday's "Downtown Get Down" reception at Florida State University in Tallahassee, George P. kicks off Saturday at the University of Central Florida's Homecoming Parade in Orlando. Then he'll headline a lunch with students at the University of Florida in Tampa, then heads to an event at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and finally ends the day at College Republicans rally at the Florida International University in Miami.
•Ex-Rep. Mark Sanford, the GOP gubernatorial nominee in South Carolina, walks with his family in the "Race for the Cure" this morning on Daniel Island. Sanford spends the rest of the day attending a football game and campaigning with ex-Rep. Bob Inglis, who left the House after he lost a challenge to Sen. Fritz Hollings, a Democrat, in 1998. •California Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, will attend a get-out-the-vote rally in Monterrey Park with prominent Asian Pacific American community and political leaders at Barnes Park. This evening, he attends another GOTV event in Pasadena. •Dick Gephardt goes to New Hampshire. In Concord, he attends an event with Concord volunteers and New Hampshire Democratic Party elected officials and House nominee Katrina Swett. From there, he goes to Waterville, then on to North Conway where he'll do a retail walk on main street. At 6:30 p.m., Gephardt will attend the Truman Dinner for the Coos County Democratic Party, at the Town & Country Motor Inn . •Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, turns 55. •Still in New Hampshire, Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a Democrat, will travel to Waterville Valley to speak to a Service and Contract Employees International Union convention. Later, Dean will speak at the Merrimack County fall harvest supper in Concord. He then leaves for Boston, where he'll address the Human Rights Campaign annual dinner.
•Rep. John Thune, the GOP Senate nominee in South Dakota, will be taking on old-fashioned whistle stop train tour from Huron to Pierre, making stops in Miller and Highmore. Thune will be joined by his wife, Kimberley, and two daughters, Brittany and Larissa on the train. •In Maryland, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Kathleen Kennedy Townsend holds a rally this evening at the Baltimore Museum of Industry with the AFL-CIO and Rep. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland. •Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, will travel to Lincoln Parish in northern Louisiana where she will address groups at Grambling State University and Louisiana Tech University about education issues. •House Minority Whip Nancy Pelosi, D-California, travels to Augusta and Athens, Georgia, to headline events for Champ Walker, a Democratic House candidate. •California Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, has an Asian-Pacific American rally in Monterrey Park. •Actors Robert Redford and Bradley Whitford (The West Wing's "Josh Lyman") each headline events for Colorado Democratic Senate nominee Tom Strickland. Redford, who attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship, played an idealistic U.S. Senate hopeful from California in the 1972 flick "The Candidate." He'll whip up the crowd at an afternoon rally in Boulder. In the evening, Whitford is the main draw at another "Strickland Unplugged" event in Denver. •President's Bush political point man Karl Rove heads to Iowa to headline the Republican's Ronald Reagan Dinner. Tonight is the second annual fund raising dinner. Rove was the only one invited to the dinner and accepted immediately. Obviously, Rove will talk 2002 politics as he heads into the last week of the election. Rove is also scheduled to headline a $1,000-a-PAC fund raiser Tuesday for ex-Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, R-Maryland, on Capitol Hill. •The Italian American Foundation holds its annual gala tonight in Washington, D.C. Actors Robert DeNiro and Sophia Loren will be inducted into National Italian American Foundation's Italian American Hall of Fame. For our purposes however, notable political guests include White House Legislative Liaison Nick Calio, Rep. John LaFalce, D-New York; Rep. Connie Morella, D-Maryland, Former RNC Party Chair Jim Nicholson, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Other guests include Tony Bennett, Connie Francis, Joe Gibbs, Ruth Buzzi and Archbishop McCarrick.
October 27 •In Wisconsin, acting Gov. Scott McCallum, a Republican, and his Democratic challenger, state Attorney General Jim Doyle, hold the third of three televised debates. •Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu and her three GOP rivals, state elections commissioner Suzanne Haik Terrell, state Rep. Tony Perkins and Rep. John Cooksey, will participate in their second debate at the WDSU-TV studios in New Orleans.
•Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, goes to Michigan to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jennifer Granholm and House candidate Kevin Kelley. •House Minority Whip Nancy Pelosi, D-California, will travel to Nashville, Tennessee to raise money for Rep. Bob Clement, the Democratic Senate nominee. Recent poll numbers show Clement closing in on his GOP rival, ex-Gov. Lamar Alexander. •Pennsylvania's gubernatorial nominees, Democrat Ed Rendell and Republican Mike Fisher, will face off in another debate at a Jewish Community Center in Pittsburgh. •Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Connecticut, will be in New York holding a fund raiser for his political action committee, ROCPAC. •Who in the world is voting? Brazil holds its second round of presidential elections. Togo holds its national parliamentary elections.
October 28 •New York Rep. Charles Rangel, a Democrat, will campaign for Jack Conway, the Democratic challenger to GOP Rep. Anne Northup in Louisville, Kentucky. Conway draws a visit from House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt on Tuesday and will attend a GOTV rally in at a UAW hall in Louisville.
•President Bush will campaign in Denver, for state Sen. Marilyn Musgrave and attorney Bob Beauprez, both Republicans who are running in open House seats in Colorado. •Lynne Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, spends the day speaking to seniors at campaign events in Minnesota and South Dakota. •Jack Kemp, a former New York congressman, 1996 vice presidential candidate and housing secretary under former President Bush, will campaign this evening in McLean, Virginia against a voter referendum to increase the state's sales tax. The event is sponsored by the Virginia Club for Growth. •Sen. John Edwards, D-North Carolina, is going to be on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." At Edwards's request, they're filming in Washington. •Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, and her three GOP opponents, state elections commissioner Suzanne Haik Terrell, state Rep. Tony Perkins and Rep. John Cooksey, hold a League of Womens Voters debate in Baton Rouge. •California Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, and former President Bill Clinton will attend a get out the vote rally at Animo Leadership Charter High School. •Rep. Connie Morella, R-Maryland, will be joined by key supporters to make an important announcement regarding endorsements she is receiving in her re-election campaign. Morella is locked in the fight of her political life with state Sen. Christopher Van Hollen, a Democrat. •Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, a Democratic presidential wannabe, will speak to the Rhode Island Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Cranston. Later, Dean will leave Rhode Island to campaign in Maine for Rep. John Baldacci, the state's Democratic gubernatorial nominee. •New Jersey GOP Senate candidate Doug Forrester holds an afternoon press conference on national security in Camden. •In South Carolina, Republicans Mark Sanford, the gubernatorial nominee and Lindsey Graham, the Senate nominee, embark on a three-day bus tour across the Palmetto State.
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