bradblog.com - 1/31/2009
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This afternoon, Day 5 of the U.S. Senate election contest between former Sen. Norm Coleman (R) and apparent-winner of the '08 election, Al Franken (D), Coleman offered another reason, just in case you needed one, to oppose his return to the Senate:
In a press conference outside the courtroom ...
Insults Fly Ahead Of Minnesota Election Trial
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/26/2009 — One thing is clear going into today's election trial in Minnesota: The Franken and Coleman camps really don't like each other.
Yesterday, the Coleman team posted a YouTube promoting their new push to have the rejected absentee ballots reviewed yet ...
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 ...
Franken Legal Team To Coleman: You Dug Your Own Grave, Buddy
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/29/2009 — 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 ...
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 ...
Coleman Lawyer To Team Franken: I Got Your Estoppel Right Here
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/30/2009 — The Coleman campaign just had some fun with the Franken campaign, who have accused them of reversing all their positions on counting votes. The Coleman reply: So have you!
The Franken camp spent yesterday and this morning reading over the vast ...
Election contest day one
powerlineblog.com 1/27/2009 — From the start, Senator Coleman's election contest challenging the 225-vote lead Al Franken secured during the recount figured to be an uphill battle. In "Overtime in the Minnesota Senate election" I tried to suggest the nature of the mistakes made ...
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 ...
Made Me Laugh —
Talking Points Memo
A comment in the discussion threads from one of our updates on the Coleman/Franken recount 'trial' ...
Can't somebody in the U.S. Attorney's office in D.C. or St. Paul just indict Norm Coleman for all those apparently undisclosed gifts and sweetheart deals he received from political sugar ...
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 ...
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 ...
Franken-Coleman Update: Hey! I Said “Better Tools, Please!” —
Firedoglake
And I thought Monday's events were crazy. The Coleman contest is so bizarre it'd be rejected as a Ben Stiller script.
As an UpTake commenter, Josh, said on the liveblog Tuesday: " [Comment From Josh] So recap: Day 1 is thrown out, pull out a couple of sympathetic witnesses, pull in a ...
The Franken-Coleman Trial —
The Corner on National Review Online
Today is the first day of the election contest trial for Minnesota's Senate seat. Proceedings begin at 2 pm EST. Franken's counsel, Marc Elias, held a conference call moments ago with reporters in which he accused the Coleman campaign of doing an "about face" in its effort to "count every vote" ...
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 —
News
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 ...
Downballot: The recount continues —
First Read
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,” ...
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