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Article: Activist learns to embrace his growing political role; A Minnesota (great-great-grand)son promotes a single house.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 15, 1999
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Following in the path of his famous great-great-grandfather, Stan Donnelly has taken a small step into the raging whirlpool that is Minnesota politics.
It's something that he believes would please his famous ancestor, Ignatius Donnelly, the state's first lieutenant governor and a longtime Populist congressman. Ignatius, who died in 1901, was known as a reformer; Stan also is interested in bringing change to the political system.
He spends lots of time at the Capitol these days, having joined - embraced is a better word - the bipartisan effort to bring about a statewide vote on whether Minnesota should have just one legislative house. Gov. Jesse Ventura ...