Minnesota said goodbye to 'a consummate legislator' when Martin Olav Sabo (D) died.

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MINNESOTA SAID GOODBYE TO "A CONSUMMATE LEGISLATOR" WHEN MARTIN OLAV SABO (D) DIED in March, said William T. Pound, NCSL's executive director. Sabo, a 14-term congressman and a ground-breaking legislative leader before that, was 78. He was a founder of NCSL and its third president. "He was one of the small group of state legislators and staff who came together to create the National Conference of State Legislatures in 1974 and set the direction of NCSL to strengthen and improve state legislatures," Pound said. "Sabo might be called the father the modern Minnesota Legislature," as the Minneapolis...