The Wellstone quote made me laugh. If Paul Wellstone had been a hypocrite, he'd be alive now. But he wanted his flight crew to look like the Democratic Party's ideal of identity politics.
So he picked one pilot who was an ex-con and phonied up his logbook a la John Kerry's war record; and one who was a black guy who didn't have the native ability to fly, but between dogged persistence and the lowered bar of affirmative action had won his ratings despite flunking every checkride at least once.
Wellstone wound up where identity politics always lead.
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Criminal Number 18F
Now, that is a great story!
I'd love to read the full story on those two guys!