thedailybeast.com - 1/7/2009
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He may take a Senate seat from the Republicans in Minnesota, but Al Franken is just the kind of Democratic pariah the GOP has been waiting for. Though legal wrangling may prevent him from being immediately seated, comedian Al Franken was certified the winner in Minnesota's Senate race today with ...
politico.com - 1/6/2009
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politico.com —
January 05, 2009 Categories: Minnesota Reid: Coleman will
"never ever serve" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered...
the toughest language he has ever used in arguing that Norm Coleman s career in the Senate is finished. Norm Coleman will never ever ...
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Reid: Coleman will "never ever serve"
powerlineblog.com - 1/7/2009
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powerlineblog.com —
The media coverage of the events related to
Minnesota's Senate election and subsequent recount has been so...
poor that it is difficult to determine what happened. The erosion of Senator Coleman's approximately 700 vote lead over Al Franken on November ...
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Overtime in the Minnesota Senate election
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/8/2009
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I've been reading through the lawsuit that Norm
Coleman has filed against the result of the Minnesota...
Senate race, and it's a marvelous thing. The complaint ignores the existence of counter-evidence, employs one maneuver when it is self-benefiting ...
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Coleman's Lawsuit: This Whole Election Stinks -- And I Won
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Matthew Yglesias —
... Apparently the right-wing is secretly really psyched that Al Franken won, because now they can criticize him! Or something. As Dave Weigel observes, there’s a ...
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 8, 2009
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... will note that those are only the beginning of the Bush administration scandals. Does the name Jeff Gannon ring a bell? Boxgate? What about the anti-prostitution AIDS tsar who purchased the services of -- wait for it -- the D.C. Madam? The Daily Beast has put together 20 of Bush's greatest forgotten scandals." Read it and weep for our country, read it and realize what the Supreme Court did to America when they aided and abetted the "theft of a presidency" in 2000! * * * Of course the right-wing rats are going to go after Franken -- Al Franken is an intelligent man, he can ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 12/4/2008 — Yesterday the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza updated the Minnesota Senate recount under heading "Counting Chaos!" Yet the text of his update mostly belied the heading (and the exclamation mark).
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Franken: Senate "Going To Try" To Seat Him
huffingtonpost.com 1/22/2009 — WASHINGTON — It's no joke: Senate Democrats are moving toward letting comedian Al Franken join the chamber while Republican Norm Coleman's election lawsuit is pending.
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Did Ritchie meet with the Franken campaign?
powerlineblog.com 1/13/2009 — The Coleman-Franken Senate recount proceeded under the auspices of the State Canvassing Board constituted under Minnesota law . By virtue of holding the office of Minnesota Secretaty of State, Mark Ritchie served as the chairman of the State ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
powerlineblog.com 12/16/2008 — Tomorrow the Canvassing Board presiding over the recount convenes to consider challenged ballots that were excluded because of their disputed status from the recount. At the urging of the Canvassing Board, both the Coleman and Franken campaigns are ...
Minnesota's recount goes south
powerlineblog.com 12/14/2008 — This past Monday the city of Minneapolis announced that it was giving up the search for the 133 ballots that are allegedly missing from a heavily Democratic precinct. The 133 ballots netted Al Franken 46 votes. Up to that point the Franken campaign ...
Franken Lobbies the Canvassing Board
powerlineblog.com 12/11/2008 — In what may be one of the low points of modern political history, the Al Franken campaign has assembled a tear-jerker of a video, featuring Franken voters whose absentee ballots were allegedly rejected by mistake:
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GOP sees Franken as top public enemy - Yahoo! News
news.yahoo.com 1/11/2009 — With only a longshot court appeal standing in the way of Democrat Al Franken s election to the Senate, Republicans are gritting their teeth and bracing for the arrival of a new senator whose every utterance will sound like nails on a chalkboard to ...
Senator Franken, At Last?
truthdig.com 1/5/2009 — After recounting 2.4 million ballots, Minnesota officials are expected to name Al Franken the state’s next senator, winning by a mere 225 votes. Franken’s rival, Sen. Norm Coleman, will likely fight the decision in the state supreme ...
Projection: Franken to Win Recount by 27 Votes
fivethirtyeight.com 11/23/2008 — As we wrote yesterday evening, the ever-increasing number of challenged ballots in Minnesota is making it more and more difficult to determine the extent to which Al Franken is in fact gaining ground in the state's recount process. An analysis of ...
Al Franken Admits $50,000 Tax Debt
newsmax.com 2/8/2009 — Overlooked in coverage of Tim Geithner's and Tom Daschle's unpaid taxes is the $70,000 that Minnesota Democratic senatorial candidate Al Franken has admitted to owing in back taxes, interest, and penalties. Last April, the California Tax Franchise ...
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