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To: PROLIFE who wrote (29501)	10/29/2002 11:44:01 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 59480

Politicizing the memorial service is reprehensible and could rebound against the Democrats. Wellstone attended Barry Goldwater's funeral. I doubt that anyone even considered excluding him. Cheney will not attend Wellstone memorial, White House says 33 minutes ago story.news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON - The family of Sen. Paul Wellstone asked Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) to stay away, so Health and Human Services (news - web sites) Secretary Tommy Thompson and the White House's chief congressional liaison were leading an administration delegation to Tuesday night's memorial service. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) said Cheney offered to attend the service for Wellstone, his wife, two daughters and three campaign aides — all killed in a plane crash Friday. "The family was appreciative of the offer by the vice president to attend." But he added that it would be inappropriate to characterize the private conversations that ultimately led to the decision that Cheney would not go. Another White House official said privately that with the memorial service expected to draw thousands, the Wellstone family told the White House they did not want mourners subjected to the kind of security screenings that Cheney's attendance would have required. This official also said White House advisers worried that the memorial service, with unions bringing supporters by the busload, would double as a Democrat get-out-the-vote rally and be awkward for Cheney. There was never any thought of President Bush (news - web sites) attending Wellstone's memorial, said the official, who discussed the matter only on grounds of anonymity. Bush, who campaigned in Minnesota for Wellstone's Republican opponent, Norm Coleman, just one week before the plane crash, will go ahead with plans to appear in Minnesota once more for Coleman on Sunday. Former Vice President Walter Mondale, a Democrat, is expected to take Wellstone's place on the ballot in this final week before Election Day. With control of the Senate hinging on the swing of just one seat, senior Republicans said an early internal poll showed a Coleman-Mondale race would be very tight.