What party was Paul Wellstone, the Minnesota United States Senator, and the person The Wellstone Action group, the 501(c)(4) advocacy organization named for, from?
Paul Wellstone Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was an American academic and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash in Eveleth, Minnesota, in 2002. A member of the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Wellstone was a leader of the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party.
Sandy Pappas Sandra L. "Sandy" Pappas (born June 15, 1949) is a Minnesota politician and former President of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), she represents District 65, which includes portions of Saint Paul in Ramsey County in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.