Introducing Rep. Carly Melin from Hibbing

By: Jacob Wheeler | February 16, 2011

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Following her victory last night in the 5B special election race up in Hibbing, Minnesota, DFLer Carly Melin visited the State Capitol in St. Paul today to attend a labor rally and then let House Minority Leader Paul Thissen introduce her to the media.

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Jacob Wheeler

In addition to shooting videos for The UpTake, Jacob Wheeler is a contributing editor at the progressive political magazine In These Times, publishes the Glen Arbor Sun in his native Michigan, and authored "Between Light and Shadow," a recent book about the Guatemalan adoption industry. Wheeler's stories have appeared in such magazines as the Utne Reader, Earth Island Journal, Rotarian and Teaching Tolerance magazine, and newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle and Christian Science Monitor. He speaks fluent Spanish, German and Danish.

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