tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/26/2009
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The Minnesota election trial just had a truly brutal moment, one that could undermine the credibility of Norm Coleman's whole case.
The Coleman campaign summoned political director Kristen Fuzer up to the stand to testify to the provenance of the photocopies of rejected absentee ballots that ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/27/2009
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We have seen the best thing that Norm
Coleman's legal team has done so far in this...
election trial -- and it ain't pretty. This afternoon the Coleman team was bringing in rejected absentee voters to show that their ballots were improperly tossed. ...
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Coleman's Supposedly Friendly Witnesses Backfire
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/23/2009
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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
mnpublius.com - 1/28/2009
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mnpublius.com —
Today, Team Coleman’s blogger at MDE, Ryan Flynn,
posted a tidbit today: “THOUSANDS OF HITS CRASH COLEMAN WEBSITE” ST...
PAUL – Information recently added to the Coleman for Senate website, whereby people can find out which Minnesota ...
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Team Coleman Fakes Website Crash
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'Doctored Evidence' Tossed on First Day of Coleman/Franken Election Contest
The BRAD BLOG —
... In what TPM's Eric Kleefeld describes as "a truly brutal moment, one that could undermine the credibility of Norm Coleman's whole case," the Republican fomer Senator's political director was called to testify about doctored evidence, as ...
Franken Lawyer Gets Coleman Witness to Concede Having Bad Evidence
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... some apparent alterations in the photocopied envelopes. Coleman lawyer Joe Friedberg briefly interviewed Fuzer. Then it was Franken lawyer Marc Elias' turn. Elias showed Fuzer a side-by-side comparison of an unaltered copy of one envelope and the version in the Coleman camp's filing, with the latter missing the section where the local official described why it was rejected. Fuzer said it looked like a photocopying problem -- as Coleman lawyer James Langdon said last week Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/franken-lawy...
Franken-Coleman Update: Let Me Win While You’re Ahead
Firedoglake —
... As Eric Kleefeld, who has been covering this case for both Talking Points Memo and The UpTake, says, the Coleman people are very lucky the three-judge panel didn't toss the whole case once the Franken team pointed out how messed up their evidence was. ...
Franken-Coleman Update: Happy Belated Birthday, Al!
Firedoglake —
... , was the chief legal counsel for the 2004 Kerry-Edwards campaign.) The irony was that the out-of-townies working for Al seemed to have a much better grasp of state law than the local folks working for Norm. They also had a much better handle on things such as the rules of (photocopied) evidence and on not committing witness-tampering ...
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The Good News for Coleman...
fivethirtyeight.com 1/7/2009 — ...is that the Minnesota Supreme Court's order (.pdf) today didn't make any judgment whatsoever about the merits of Coleman's case on absentee ballots. It merely said that the time to resolve these things is during an election contest, not during the ...
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Franken-Coleman Update: Oh. My. Goodness.
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com 2/27/2009 — This was supposed to be the last day of testimony by Coleman's witnesses -- and it may well end in sanctions for Joe Friedberg, Tony Trimble, and a few other members of the Coleman legal team. Why? Because it turns out that, contrary to her ...
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briefingroom.thehill.com 2/3/2009 — Sen. Norm Coleman (R) received a qualified victory from the three-judge panel hearing his challenge to Democrat Al Franken's 225-vote lead in the Minnesota Senate race, granting him access to thousands of absentee ballots to help press his case that ...
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campaignsilo.firedoglake.com 11/26/2008 — The Coleman campaign continued its addition-by-subtraction campaign, challenging considerably more ballots than Franken's people did today in order to create an artificial "lead" of 231 (per the StarTribune ). Franken's campaign claims ...
Downballot: The recount continues —
First Read 1/26/2009
MINNESOTA: The trial in Minnesota’s undecided Senate race begins today. “Three district judges appointed for the job will be hearing the case brought by Republican Norm Coleman to overturn the current 225-vote lead held by Democrat Al Franken,” ...
The 'Flat Earth Club' —
First Read 1/26/2009
From NBC’s Abby Livingston The trial to determine the occupant of the Minnesota U.S. Senate seat began this afternoon in St. Paul.
Meanwhile, the campaigns sparred with dueling conference calls. The Franken campaign held the first one, ...
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