Beth Stockbridge’s political awakening came courtesy of the Chicago machine and Al Franken. “When I moved to Chicago I was pretty shocked by how corrupt the politics are,” says Stockbridge, who’s 26. Then this fall her husband saw Franken speak in Skokie, and she learned about a group devoted to furthering the progressive causes championed by the late senator Paul Wellstone. On Thursday, February 5, she and more than 650 other volunteers nationwide are holding informal discussions of Wellstone’s 2002 book The Conscience of a Liberal in cafes, libraries, and their living rooms. “My apartment can only hold, like, eight people,” says Stockbridge. “I don’t know if I even have eight chairs.”
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For more information on Wellstone Action! and to register for the Wellstone Civic Dialogue Project see www.wellstoneaction.org.
