Connie Lewis
Connie Lewis...
Camp Wellstone
Jeremy Kalin August 11, 2024.
A great story about Tim Walz’s first formal step out from the classroom into politics, back in January 2005 when I found myself as the only prior candidate (the only previous “loser”!) in what became a remarkable class in “candidate school” at Camp Wellstone.
Governor Tim Walz, Elizabeth Glidden, Andy Luger, Mark Ritchie, Ralph Remington, Betsy Tate Anderson trainers Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan, Marcia Louise Avner, Melvin Carter and others…. I mean, come on!!!
It was fun to reminisce to Paul Demko from Politico about that wild time almost 20 years ago, and to see the throughline for so many of us thanks to the Wellstone Family, Jeff Blodgett, Danny Cramer, Rob Richman, Alana Petersen, Pam Costain, Connie Lewis… I could go on and on…
Tim Walz has grown immensely as a leader, orator, candidate and public servant - building on his natural talent and likability - and so much of that is connected to Camp Wellstone and the Wellstone family.
I am so grateful to be a beneficiary myself, and for our country to now benefit, too.
Wellstone Action
In 2009 Connie Lewis was listed as a member of the Board of Directors and Advisory Board[1] of Wellstone Action, a Minnesota based organization based on the political legacy[2] of that state’s late ‘progressive” Senator Paul Wellstone.
- Wellstone Action and Wellstone Action Fund combine to form a national center for training and leadership development for the progressive movement. Founded in January 2003, Wellstone Action's mission is to honor the legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellstone by continuing their work through training, educating, mobilizing and organizing a vast network of progressive individuals and organizations.