[justshutupandtakeit]

Where did you hear that Page wanted to be named to replace Mondull?

[Galtoid]

I believe Robert Novak's column today deals with the Page issue.

[OldFriend]

The story is in today's column by Bob Novak and is up on Drudge. Alan Page was not selected because of his race.

[William McKinley]

Here:

There was one other possibility: Alan Page, the 57-year-old former Notre Dame and Minnesota Vikings football star who has been an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 1993. A law-and-order liberal, Page has led the state Democratic ticket in recent elections. According to Minnesota sources, he was eager to seek the Senate seat. But the DFL apparently did not want to risk running the African-American Page in an overwhelmingly Caucasian state, and Page was swiftly discouraged.

Here:

It could be ex-Vice President Mondale, age 74 (call it the "New Jersey option," akin to the return of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, age 78, after Sen. Robert Torricelli dropped out of the Senate race there); Alan Page, the former Minnesota Vikings football star, now an associate justice on the state Supreme Court; Mondale's son Ted, a Minnesota lawyer; Hubert "Skip" Humphrey, the son of the late vice president; one of Wellstone's two surviving sons, David and Mark; one of the Minnesota congressmen; or maybe the state attorney general.

Here:

Mr Mondale was the obvious successor: the favourite of Democrats in Minnesota and Washington, and most crucially of Wellstone's family. Only one other contender came close: Alan Page, an African-American former professional football player and a current member of the state supreme court.