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...floor of the Capitol staring at two wide-screen TV's blaring election returns from ten different stations around the country, he was secretly plotting a counter-coup against Daschle. That was why the phone call that had just come in Tuesday afternoon was important. It was from Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican senator the late Paul Wellstone had unseated 12 years ago. Lott pushed the mute button on the TV remote so he could hear what Boschwitz had to say. Angry that a Wellstone memorial service last week turned into a partisan political rally, Minnesota's unpredictable Gov. Jesse Ventura...
...Boschwitz and Lott traded intelligence on the campaign to win over the Minnesota independent. Boschwitz was already lobbying Barkley and getting others in the state to phone him. Lott was organizing a Senate blitz from Washington. "I've got Arlen on the trail talking to Barkely," Lott told Boschwitz. The moderate Specter would likely be an ideological soulmate. Lott also managed to get the jump on Daschle, getting a phone call himself through to Barkley before the Democratic leader had managed to reach...
...moderator of a recent debate between Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone and Rudy Boschwitz, the Republican he upset six years ago, said she needed "a whip and a chair" to keep the pair apart as they argued over federal farm policy. Indeed, the two staged a ferocious fight for the Minnesota Senate seat. In the end, former political science professor Wellstone proved that his '90 election was no fluke, and also that there is a place in the Senate for an old-fashioned liberal. He was the only incumbent Senator up for re-election who voted against the welfare-reform bill...
...RUDY BOSCHWITZ (R) SENATE CHALLENGER...
...Boschwitz, the German-born founder of Plywood Minnesota, faces a rematch with the unknown who unseated him in 1990 by 1% of the vote. He says Wellstone is a liberal with an itchy wallet, while he supports a conservative fiscal policy. On social issues, however, Boschwitz, in more moderate Minnesota, has distanced himself from the radical right wing of his party...