politico.com - 1/22/2009
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Last session's senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman, still battling Al Franken to be seated in the Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive director, Matt Brooks, said.
Coleman will join the ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/23/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
At a pre-trial hearing in the Minnesota election
lawsuit just now, Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton made a
striking accusation: That the Coleman campaign has been doctoring evidence. As an example, Hamilton showed two photocopies of a rejected ...
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Franken Legal Team: Coleman Is Doctoring Evidence
cqpolitics.com - 1/22/2009
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cqpolitics.com —
Democratic candidate Al Franken made a bid Wednesday
to short-circuit the court case that’s intended to give
Minnesota a winner in its closely contested Senate race. Attorneys for Franken argued that a state court should dismiss the lawsuit filed by ...
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Franken Makes Case To Let Senate Decide
startribune.com - 1/23/2009
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startribune.com —
The three-judge panel rejected Al Franken's motion to
dismiss the case to narrowly limit the review of
ballots. The three-judge panel that will hear the case also rejected Franken's bid to narrowly limit the review.
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Franken's request to dismiss Coleman suit is denied
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Norm Coleman Has A New Job!
Wonkette » top —
... that he is, in fact, a loser, he has taken a(nother) new, awesomer job.
Yes, America! There is still a single job left to be had in this country, and Norm Coleman took it.
He will be a consultant and strategic advisor to the Republican Jewish Coalition — a group so powerful that it managed to persuade a full 21 percent of Jewish voters to go for McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Norm Coleman will only add to their sterling lineup.
Coleman takes a job [Ben Smith]
A Job for Norm
Matthew Yglesias —
... Norm Coleman’s still fighting for the Minnesota Senate seat he already lost, but he’s also taken new employment as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Committee. The RJC is extremely good at getting the press to write stories every four years about Jewish voters turning against the Democrats. It’s not so good at actually getting Jewish voters to turn against the Democrats, who regularly get 75-80 percent of the Jewish vote. ...
MN-Sen: Coleman Gets A New Job
Daily Kos —
... Further evidence that despite his flurry of legal challenges and various last-ditch efforts to swing the result of the Senate election in Minnesota, former U.S. Senator Norm Coleman sees the writing on the wall as clearly as anyone: ...
Coleman’s New Gig
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... Smith in Politico:
Last session’s senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman, still battling Al Franken to be seated in the Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive director, Matt Brooks, said.
Coleman will join the group as a “consultant and strategic advisor,” and will also travel the country fundraising on the group’s behalf, Brooks said.
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MN-Sen: Building a villain
Daily Kos —
... So Norm Coleman has taken a day job, which would suggest he's no longer confident that he'll retain his Senate seat. So why drag the state through the process of a futile legal challenge while depriving it of representation in the Senate? Nate has ...
1/23: This Wasn't What We Had In Mind...
Blogometer —
... which found that 58% of Americans agree with Obama that torture should not be used under any circumstances: MN SEN: What's Coleman's Endgame? Now that Coleman has taken a job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, liberal bloggers are arguing that Coleman knows he has lost and that he's simply trying to damage Franken: ...
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thehill.com 1/22/2009 — Norm Coleman (R) has taken a job with the Republican Jewish Coalition while contesting Democrat Al Franken’s lead in the Minnesota Senate race, his campaign confirmed Thursday. In what could be seen as a sign that Coleman thinks his bid to return to ...
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/6/2009 — Norm Coleman has made it official: He is filing a lawsuit to challenge the election result in Minnesota, which he does not believe to be a valid count -- and he is making clear that for the sake democracy, Al Franken should not be seated in the ...
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First Read 1/22/2009
MINNESOTA: Roll Call checks in with Norm Coleman, who apparently was on the Hill yesterday as was competitor Al Franken. The paper called Coleman "noticeably relaxed" and "expressed confidence." “We believe that when the ballots that have been ...
Coleman takes a job
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