Norm Coleman
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One Year Ago in Minnesota:
Posted by Greg Laden on June 30, 2010 Coleman Steps Aside: Franken is Senator Let us not forget, Coleman was an absolute jerk during the whole process. And,he was a sucky senator. Subsequent to Franken’s establishment in office, he has proven himself equal to the best. Indeed, his lack of experience in elected office in general and the senate in particular is rather…
Al Franken actually won by a landslide
Posted by Greg Laden on July 21, 2009 In any event, more people seem to like Al Franken than who voted for him … if we compare the 42% of the vote he got with the 49% approval rating he now has. (details) This is partly a function of increased favorablity following the nasty recount process, but is also reminds us of something…
Pawlenty Vague on Signing Franken Into Senate
Posted by Greg Laden on June 29, 2009 Time Pawlenty has become famous for his ability to be extraordinarily vague. Now we are seeing this in relation to the expected Minnesota State Supreme Court decision on the Franken-Coleman Senate election contest. For the most part, Pawlenty has signaled that he will only sign the election certificate if he is instructed to do so…
Franken-Coleman Recount Decision: Maybe not today.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 18, 2009 The Minnesota Supreme Court spokesperson Lissa “No-that-is-not-a-typo” Finne has told Greg Sargent’s Blog that the other blogs suggesting that the court would issue a decision today are incorrect. Finne indicates that sometimes the court tells the involved parties on Monday about a decision on Thursday, other times they come out with notification only minutes before…
Franken-Coleman Senatorial Race Decision Expected …. Any Time Now
Posted by Greg Laden on June 18, 2009 According to various sources which can not be named but that are being reported by the Capitol Report, the Minnesota Supreme Court is likely to make a decision today, Thursday, June 18th. If the decision is anything other than to support (uphold) the decision of the three judge panel which previously ruled in Franken’s favor,…
Franken, Coleman Near Miss Tweeted
Posted by Greg Laden on June 17, 2009 Minnesota Post reports from the Minnesota Independent a Twitter Report from Matt HIll indicating that Al Franken and Norm Coleman were on the same flight to Washington DC yesterday. The outgoing Senator, Coleman was in First Class. Franken was in Coach. Just thought you’d like to know….
Coleman will NOT run for governor of Minnesota
Posted by Greg Laden on June 8, 2009 … Entire state breaths collective sigh of relief … Speculation was mounting in St. Paul and elsewhere that Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s decision not to seek a third term in 2010 — perhaps to seek the 2012 Republican U.S. presidential nomination — means Coleman is planning to end his legal battle with Democrat Al Franken to…
Coleman has little chance of pulling nuts out of the fire
Posted by Greg Laden on June 4, 2009 Legal experts are largely undivided in the opinion that Norm Coleman’s Minnesota Supreme Court bid to overturn a lower judicial panel’s decisions regarding the vote count in the Minnesota Senate race is senseless and has no chance whatsoever of winning. This opinion was widely held prior to the presentation of arguments by Coleman, but now,…
Coleman, under investigation, wants to use campaign funds for criminal case
Posted by Greg Laden on May 12, 2009 Attorneys for Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) have asked the Federal Election Commission for permission to use campaign funds to pay his legal bills stemming from allegations that a Coleman confidante funneled improper payments to the lawmaker via his wife. Coleman and his wife have denied any wrongdoing, but the former CEO of Deep Marine Technology,…
Jesse Ventura to Coleman: “You are a hypocrite!”
Posted by Greg Laden on May 12, 2009 I always liked Jesse. I didn’t agree with about half of his policies, but I did not have the automated lefty knee jerk reaction against him that almost everyone I know had. Hey, he did after all, beat Norm Coleman in that governor’s race!
Minnesotans Want Coleman To Give Up in Senate Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on April 26, 2009 Only 28 percent of Minnesotans think Coleman’s current appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court is appropriate. Sixty four percent think he should give up now. Seventy three percent feel that he should not go beyond the State Supreme Court if he loses there. The will of the people has been heard in both the voting…
Norm Coleman: Against Democracy
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2009 Norm Coleman has requested a more “leisurely” (as the Star Tribune calls it) schedule for his recount appeal. What is more leisurely? The Coleman team would like oral arguments to begin no sooner than mid-May, and easily later than that. source Clearly, the hypothesis that Norm Coleman is simply playing a delaying game stands, still,…
Coleman Appeals Election Ruling to MNSC
Posted by Greg Laden on April 21, 2009 The Star Tribune reports that Norm Coleman has filed an appeal with the Minnesota Supreme Court. He did so late Monday. I believe this is nine days after the lower judicial panel’s decision, which places this appeal just under the deadline. Clearly, Coleman has a strategy in mind that has little to do with the…
What would you pay to make Norm Coleman go away?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 20, 2009 A joint project by Democrats has flipped traditional fund-raising on its head, by starting a campaign aimed at collecting $1 a day from supporters “to make Norm Coleman go away.” The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a new group working to get like-minded candidates elected, has teamed up with Howard Dean’s Democracy for America to tap…
An important deduction regarding the Minnesota Senate recount
Posted by Greg Laden on April 18, 2009 Eric Black of MinnPost Dot Com has made an interesting observation. Last week the three judge panel charged with hearing Norm Coleman’s “Election Contest” (that’s a thing … an election contest is a kind of suit claiming that an election did not go properly) finished their job. They ruled against some of Coleman’s claims, but…
Franken Declared Winner in Minnesota Senate Race
Posted by Greg Laden on April 13, 2009 The judicial panel hearing Coleman’s challenge against Franken in the Minnesota Senate Race has made its decision: Franken is the the winner of the election and should be certified. The procedure is this: A ten day period occurs after which the Governor certifies the election. Unless there is a challenge in the State Supreme Court.…
Franken Lead Increases in Minnesota Senate Race
Posted by Greg Laden on April 7, 2009 According to news reports, the Minnesota Election Contest Judicial Panel finished their review of votes, counting just under 400 absentee ballots that were previous excluded. These votes were included as the result of Former Senator Norm Coleman’s legal challenge to the election. With Senator Al Franken’s lead over Former Senator Norm Coleman rising from 225…
Minnesota Recount Update
Posted by Greg Laden on April 6, 2009 The three judge panel convened for the purpose of addressing the Coleman challenge of the Minnesota Senate Election won by Al Franken (after a detailed recount) will meet today to examine ballots they had asked brought to the court. The panel had asked for four hundred ballots, but a small number of these (just over…
Sudden movement in the Franken-Coleman Senate Race Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on March 31, 2009 The judicial panel that has been off somewhere deciding what to do about the Coleman election challenge has ordered 400 additional ballots opened and counted on April 7th. If (and we do not know this for a fact) these are THE remaining ballots to count, them Coleman would have to get a statistically unlikely majority…
Rachel Maddow on the Franken-Coleman Senate Race Recount
Posted by Greg Laden on March 31, 2009 Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Note the continued threats of violence by the Right Wing. We continue to await word from the court.
Minnesota Senate Recount: Refining the prediction on how it ends
Posted by Greg Laden on March 24, 2009 In conversation with reporters earlier today Coleman noted that he does not anticipate this case going to the US Supreme Court, though he did apparently say this in his usual smarmy way so he can change his mind later. He did indicate that he DOES anticipate bringing the case to the Minnesota Supreme Court if…
Minnesota Recount End Is In Sight
Posted by Greg Laden on March 23, 2009 So, my friend Phil was in the Air Force up near Grand forks (where the flooding is happening now). He told me today they use to use a super tall radio tower to spot weather, and this tower was something like 70 miles away. So it was in sight, but almost unbelievably so. Similarly, there…
How to Make a Republican Firing Squad
Posted by Greg Laden on March 18, 2009 First, draw a circle. Then, assemble your most incompetent boobs and make sure anyone who is competent you undermine. Such as the case of RNC Chairman Tom Steele … keep him in power only long enough to demonstrate (because you’ve totally undermined him) that his sort should be avoided in the future, once and for…
I had no idea Ben Frankelin was Jewish….
Posted by Greg Laden on March 17, 2009 Oh, but wait, he wasn’t. But Al Franken IS. That’s Franken, zero els. A group promoting United States-Israel ties is raising funds for Norm Coleman with an e-mail that opens by referring to Al Franken by the not-particularly-Jewish-sounding name “Franklin”: We are making an appeal for one of our friends and steadfast supporters of US-Israel…
Norm Coleman Pwned (howto)
Posted by Greg Laden on March 15, 2009 The story of Norm Coleman’s database hack inadvertent access from the hacker security consultant (whom I consider to be a hero) herself. Wow. She’d going on my blogroll. Check it out. See comments below for commentary on the meaning of the word “hacker” and it’s change over time.
Hackers! Help!
Posted by Greg Laden on March 13, 2009 Somebody’s site on the internet is borked and it needs your help! Hat tip to MN Progressive for identifying this problem. Go help out Dusty Trice.
Computer Security, A Bug in Google Docs(?), and Norm Coleman Is a Ghoulish Skeletal Idiot
Posted by Greg Laden on March 13, 2009 …. Not to pick on Norm’s physical appearance or anything, but those of use who find his continued existence in Minnesota politics both enigmatic and unconscionable (for us, for allowing it) are starting to see him like that. Anyway, somebody who is too busy to blog sent me this interesting item: Wikileaks comes back at…
Give Some Money to Al Franken!!!!!!
Posted by Greg Laden on March 3, 2009 Seriously! The Franken team is now entering the ‘defense’ phase of the absurd Election Challenge launched by Norman Coleman, who lost the election for Senate to Al Franken but who refuses to give up his seat. If everybody who reads this blog sends five dollars to Al, they’ll have enough to … well, to make…
Coleman rests, pays fine, asks Judges to overturn election.
Posted by Greg Laden on March 3, 2009 Norm Coleman had to pay a $7,500 fine yesterday for failure to disclose important evidence in the 26 day long Franken-Coleman Senatorial Election Challenge Trial. The plaintiff, Coleman, also claimed in a written statement to the court that since the number of illegal votes cast in this election exceeds the narrow margin of difference between…
Franken Coleman MN Senate Recount Update
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2009 Ana has contributed a detailed comment.
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