Sabo was considered to be the most liberal member of the Minnesota delegation in the 109th Congress, scoring 4% conservative by a conservative group[4] and 90% progressive by a liberal group.[5]
Later career
On March 18, 2006, he announced that he would not seek reelection for the 110th Congress, ending 46 years as an elected official, including 28 years in Congress – the third-longest tenure in either house of Congress in the state's history, behind only fellow Democrats Jim Oberstar[3][6] and Colin Peterson. He endorsed his longtime chief of staff, Mike Erlandson, in the DFL primary—the real contest in this district. Erlandson lost to State Representative Keith Ellison, also a progressive DFLer, who won the general election and succeeded Sabo on January 4, 2007.
Sabo served as a co-chair of the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center.[7] For his work on acquiring funding for transportation projects and specifically pedestrian and bicycling funding, the Midtown Greenway bridge in Minneapolis was named the Martin Olav Sabo Bridge.
Personal life
Sabo died March 13, 2016, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the age of 78.[8] He had been hospitalized with breathing difficulties.[9]
U.S Senator Amy Klobuchar called Sabo a "friend and mentor," and Governor Mark Dayton praised him as "a great political leader and an outstanding public servant."[10] Sabo was a lifelong smoker until he quit in 2003.
Electoral history
2004 race for U.S. House of Representatives – 5th district
^"Congressional Voting Scorecard 2005"(PDF). SBE Council’s Congressional Voting Scorecard 2005. Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council. June 2006. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 29, 2006. Retrieved November 2, 2006.
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