Sen. Wellstone was a Liberal Democrat, but by all accounts, a decent human being who deserved far more dignity and decorum at his memorial.
Believe it or not, I knew Paul Wellstone. I agreed with him on exactly nothing in a political sense but you are right to state that he was a good man (except in his first election campaign against Rudy Boschwitz).
He’d never get my vote but that didn’t stop him from being nice on a personal basis. You’re quite right — he and his wife, who was also memorialized that night, deserved some dignified treatment.