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Some governors who have been elected to the Senate have found it a disappointing experience. One day you're a chief executive; next you're a powerless freshman. But Mel Carnahan was hopeful. A few weeks before his death last week in a private plane crash, Carnahan told Time that he enjoyed serving in Missouri's statehouse and that he "revered" his late father, who served in Congress from 1945 to 1960. "I would like to go there and do my own version of what he did," Carnahan said...
...widow, Jean. But since she also lost a son, Roger, in the crash - an aide to the Governor, Chris Sifford, also died - friends say it will be hard to muster the strength. William Clay Jr., a leading state Democrat, advises his party to "tailor a message in memory of Mel: 'Come out; he would have wanted you to vote.'" For Missourians and Americans, the Carnahan death was tragedy. For Democrats, though, it was tragedy times...
Most random bit of music "news" last week: apparently Mel C a.k.a. Sporty Spice (left) has a problem-she can't stop farting. To quote her, "I have a problem with farting, full stop. I'm always farting. Everybody's gotta know I'm a right farty-pants." Guess that's a side effect of those Spices...
...could outprepare Al Gore. He walked up to the edge of the audience, Clinton-style, if without Clinton's emotionally hungry ease. He called attention to his departures from his Round 2 pussycat posture. And he came prepared with opening eulogies not just for late Missouri governor Mel Carnahan but the sailors killed on the USS Cole, which took over half his first response. By the time he cited Carnahan's record in a later question on affirmative action, we were witness to a classic instance of Gore-esque coffin-riding, ? la his 1992 and 1996 convention speeches. (Whereas...
Friends of Mel Carnahan, the story today goes, say the governor would have wanted the debate to go on, and so it will. George W. Bush canceled a 9:30 a.m. appearance at nearby Webster University, but after discussions between the campaigns and the Commission on Presidential Debates, the word was that everything else would proceed as scheduled...