Oberstar remembered for 'fighting for the people of northern Minnesota'
U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar begins to tear up while speaking to the media after being defeated by Republican challenger Chip Cravaack at the Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building in Duluth, Minn. on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010.
MPR Photo/Derek Montgomery
Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board Commissioner Tony Sertich remembers the late Congressman Jim Oberstar as "someone out in Washington D.C. from [his] hometown who is fighting for the people of northern Minnesota."
Oberstar died Saturday at the age of 79. Funeral services are scheduled in Potomac, Maryland Thursday.
Sertich joins The Daily Circuit to look back on Oberstar's career in public service.
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