Gary Severson

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Gary Severson is based in Le Center, Minnesota

Early Life

Severson worked at the North Dakota State Mill as a night watchman while going to college in the late 60s.^[1]

Communist Party reformer

In 1991 Gary Severson, Minnesota, was one of several hundred Communist Party USA members to sign the a paper "An initiative to Unite and Renew the Party" - most signatories left the Party after the December 1991 conference to found Committees of Correspondence.^[2]

CPUSA Farm Commission meeting

In December 1999, a Communist Party USA meeting was held at the May Day Bookstore in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the purpose of re-establishing the Communist Party USA Farm Commission.

Party members present were Erwin Marquit, Helvi Savola, Jack Brown, Peter Molenaar, Morgan Soderburg, Bill Gudex, Mark Froemke, Scott Marshall, Gary Severson, Mike Madden, Becky Pera, Charlie Smith and Tim Wheeler.^[3]

Mark Ritchie (now Secretary of State for Minnesota) also attended and addressed the meeting. In a written report on the meeting by Tim Wheeler, Ritchie is referred to as a "non-party friend" of the Communist Party. The report was marked "not for publication". Click here for the entire report.^[4]

Communist Party MLK tribute

On January 19, 2002, the Communist Party USA newspaper, Peoples Weekly World published a signed tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr..

We salute Dr. King’s courage and vision. He saw and struggled for an America and world that can be. We pledge in his memory to work to reorder our nation’s priorities “so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.”

Signatories included Gary Severson . Almost all signatories were confirmed members of the Communist Party USA^[5].

Voted for Mark Dayton

On Oct. 12, 2010, Severson voted in an online poll which asked, "Who do you support for the Governor race?" Severson voted for Mark Dayton, and commented,^[6]

"to raise and make rich pay there 30 persent and no write off"

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