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Political operatives at the Democratic National Committee in Washington developed the plan to turn the memorial service for Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone into a political rally, top party sources tell Capitol Hill Blue. The party also urged the Wellstone family to ask Vice President Dick Cheney to not attend the service and concocted the excuse that security for the VP would disrupt the event even though Secret Service security was required for former president Bill Clinton, who was invited and who did attend. Rick Kahn, the Wellstone campaign worker and friend, worked the highly partisan crowd into a frenzy with...

<p>Rick Kahn doesn't regret what he said during his famous speech at the memorial service for his friend Sen. Paul Wellstone, and he considers the electorate's reaction to it "extremely unfair," he told a television reporter during an interview broadcast Thursday night.</p>

Rick Kahn, the Democrat lawyer whose foaming-at-the-mouth speech at that partisan "memorial service" for Sen. Paul Wellstone helped defeat Senate wannabe Walter Mondale, is making himself mighty scarce these days. Kahn "has largely disappeared," the pro-Democrat Minneapolis Star Tribune marveled today. "Before the election and again Wednesday, Kahn did not return reporters' phone calls and said through friends and family members that he did not want to talk. Nobody responded Wednesday to knocks on the door of his Minnetonka house, where Kahn works from a home office." Newsweek was able to track him down Tuesday night. He admitted to the...

Click HERE to see Rick Kahn call upon Republicans to remove themselves from existence in order to honor the memory of Paul Wellstone. You can see him speaking 2 hrs 13 minutes into this video.

In a bizarre plea to the GOP to forfeit the race for Paul Wellstone's Senate seat, a Wellstone family friend told the memorial service for the late liberal Tuesday night that both local and national Republicans owed it to Wellstone to abandon their support for his GOP opponent, Norm Coleman, as a tribute to the dead senator's memory. "Can we not set aside for just one week all of the partisan bickering, all of the political strategy and all of the nastiness," Rick Kahn told the crowd gathered at the University of Minnesota's Williams Arena. "So that we may come...