On the afternoon of December 31, 1990 a grimy green bus roars up Constitutional Avenue and makes a stop at Capital Hill. Could this be a busload of hippies protesting the views of the government, a group of school children on a fieldtrip to see Capital Hill? No, it is Senator Paul Wellstone! On that December afternoon, Wellstone made his way to a platform mounted on the back of the bus and spoke:
I wanted to come to Washington, D.C., in this bus I guess for a lot of different reasons. The bus was a symbol of everything that's not slick, of everything that isn't big money. The bus was o…
