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  • Sue Rockne was longtime abortion-rights activist

    03/01/2005 7:09:47 PM PST · by Rakkasan1 · 111 replies · 1,433+ views
    Pioneer Press ^ | 3-01-05 | RACHEL E. STASSEN-BERGER
    Sue Rockne was a fighter. At the Minnesota state Capitol, she fought for women's rights, abortion access and safety for battered women. As a Democratic activist, she fought for and with the party and served as a 12-year Democratic National Committee member and five-time delegate to the Democratic National Convention. And for 13 years she fought leukemia, a cancer that kills many of its victims quickly. She challenged it with the aid of a little red scooter that zoomed her around the Capitol halls and helped her travel across all seven continents in the past decade. On Saturday, she succumbed...