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WASHINGTON -- Step into the office of a former staffer to the late U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone and you're likely to notice a small shrine to the liberal icon.
In Marge Baker's office at People for the American Way, there's a framed green Wellstone campaign poster.
"I think somebody framed it for me as a present, and I take it everywhere I go," said Baker, the liberal group's executive vice president for policy.
"I need Paul with me."
Ten years after the Oct. 25, 2002, plane crash that killed Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, daughter Marcia and five others, many of Wellstone's former staffers still work in and around Congress and say they try to live up to his ideals.
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Baker, who worked for the Democratic senator for two years, had worked in other Senate offices before but s