tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/29/2009
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The Franken legal team has been busy this afternoon laying out their argument against Norm Coleman: You don't get to pull a 180.
Franken attorney David Lillehaug has been cross-examining Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann, who oversaw a great deal of the recount and was originally called ...
Franken Lawyer Gets Coleman Witness to Concede Having Bad Evidence
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/26/2009 — 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 ...
Coleman: I Need "Good Americans" To Contribute
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/28/2009 — Appearing last night on Fox News for an interview with Sean Hannity, Norm Coleman made an interesting appeal for money: That he can win this race if "good Americans" contribute to help him pay his legal bills, versus the lefties out there who support ...
The Minnesota Election Trial: A Legal Mess
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/29/2009 — The Minnesota election court is rolling along without delays today, and the fairly productive morning we've just had served to make even clearer something that we've known all along: Once you get to the most minute levels of an election, the whole ...
Franken Lawyer: Coleman Has Switched Positions On Rejecting Votes
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/30/2009 — The Minnesota election trial is continuing today, after the Franken campaign spent the morning laying out their claim that Norm Coleman's legal arguments at this point cannot be taken at face value.
Specifically, Franken attorney David Lillehaug ...
Former Pres. Bush Writes Coleman to Offer Support —
News
Former President George H.W. Bush got involved in Minnesota's still-contested Senate race, writing Sen. Norm Coleman (R) on Thursday to lend his support in his election challenge to Democrat Al Franken.
"I have been following the developments in Minnesota for some time and we are no strangers to ...
MN-Sen: Cherry Picking For Votes —
Daily Kos
Did Norm Coleman really think that this little detail wouldn't come up? The Coleman team is continuing to call as witnesses some aggrieved voters to complain that their ballot was wrongly rejected ... One of them was college student Peter DeMuth... Upon cross-examination by Franken attorney ...
Team Coleman Fakes Website Crash —
Daily Kos
So how desperate are Norm Coleman diehards? Pretty desperate, judging by the latest comedy from Coleman-land. It started out looking like a good media day for Coleman when a Coleman partisan posted the following blog item, quickly picked up by local media: "THOUSANDS OF HITS CRASH COLEMAN ...
MN-Sen: Coleman lawyers admits he doesn't care about law —
Daily Kos
At the trial today, the Coleman campaign is insistent that a fraudulently obtained absentee ballot be counted, admitting that they don't give a damn about the law . [Coleman Attorney Joe] Friedberg: In point of fact, even though I did something I wasn't supposed to do with the application, my ...
Editors: Remember Count Every Vote? —
Articles on National Review Online
D emocrats want to declare an end to the Minnesota Senate race, with Al Franken the winner and Norm Coleman the sore loser. In an appearance with Franken last week, Harry Reid averred: The race in Minnesota is over with. . . . There s no way the election results are going to change. This is ...
Norm Coleman's witness backfires on the stand —
Crooks and Liars
This is hysterical. How do you know that Norm Coleman's chances of retaining his Senate seat are in bad, bad shape? When one of his key witnesses takes the stand and undermines his own case. TPM has the scoop:
This afternoon the Coleman team was bringing in rejected absentee voters to ...
Norm Coleman Fakes Website Crash —
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
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 voters the Franken campaign is trying to ...
Norm Coleman Accused of Faking Website Crash —
Politics Daily
The campaign of Republican Quasi-Senator Norm Coleman has been called out over its claim that a surge of tens of thousands of voters crashed its website Wednesday. From Fox News : ST PAUL, Minn. (FOX9) -- The Norm Coleman campaign said a searchable database of disenfranchised voters crashed the ...
MN-Sen: Purposefully throwing the case —
Daily Kos
So my operating theory about the election contest in Minnesota is that the GOP and Norm Coleman know their case is hopeless. Coleman went and got a new job already, so he's already moved on. Yet Republicans persist because with Hillary Clinton out of the Senate, they need a new nationally-known ...
Franken Lawyer: Coleman Lost, And Has No Case —
TPM Election Central
Al Franken's lawyer Kevin Hamilton just finished his opening arguments against Norm Coleman's lawsuit to contest the results of the Minnesota Senate race. His case boils down to this: Norm Coleman is suing because he lost, and is searching for things to complain about.
Hamilton said that ...
Franken Lawyer: Coleman Living on a 'Flat Earth' —
News
Democrat Al Franken's campaign sought to undercut Sen. Norm Coleman's (R) challenge to Minnesota's Senate race, calling Coleman's campaign "charter members of the Flat Earth Society."
Franken attorney Marc Elias, particularly animated during a conference call Monday, slammed Coleman's campaign ...
Franken-Coleman Election Trial Begins Monday —
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Former Sen. Norm Coleman's (R-Minn.) court challenge of Democrat Al Franken's lead in their Senate race begins Monday.
Franken was certified the winner by a margin of 225 votes by the state canvassing board. But Coleman's camp is arguing that his deficit is due to improperly counted absentee ...
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