wkbt.com - 1/6/2009
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(AP) -- Former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson says Republican Norm Coleman should concede to Democrat Al Franken in the U.S. Senate race. Carlson says Coleman shouldn't sue over the results of the recount. Carlson was a Republican governor who now considers himself an independent. He endorsed ...
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
abcnews.go.com - 1/5/2009
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abcnews.go.com —
Two months after Minnesota voters went to the
polls, Democrat Al Franken has been declared the winner...
of the U.S. Senate race, but his opponent, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, is ready to challenge the results in court. Franken, the comedian and ...
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Franken Declared Winner in Minnesota Senate Race
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Coleman Goes To Court
Hotline On Call Part Deux —
... According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune Coleman was "cheered on" at the presser by "a room full of supporters, including Republican notables" from MN. But at least one prominent MN Republican, former Gov. Arne Carlson, isn't cheering Coleman's vow to fight to the bitter end. Carlson, a supporter of Coleman's 1998 gubenatorial run, said today that he thinks it's time for Coleman to concede. ...
Franken-Coleman Recount Update: The Knaak-Trimble Retirement Fund
Firedoglake —
It's going to a three-judge panel, folks!
Looked at objectively, Norm Coleman doesn't have a case to contest the results of the recount that dislodged him from his Senate seat. Any suit he could file is going to cost him a few million just for his own lawyers -- and should he lose, which is extremely likely verging on ...
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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 ...
Coleman Goes To Court
hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com 1/7/2009 — The epic race for the MN senate seat will have yet another chapter before its finale. Republican Sen. Norm Coleman announced today that he'll take the fight for the seat to the state Supreme Court , less than a day after the state canvassing board ...
Coleman speaks!
politico.com 12/23/2008 — Blog: For the first time since the Minnesota Senate recount began, Sen. Norm Coleman briefly talked to a Minneapolis TV station about the recount
Coleman v. Minnesota Canvassing Board
fivethirtyeight.com 12/18/2008 — This afternoon, Minnesota's Supreme Court will take up Norm Coleman's request (PDF) to stop the counting of so-called "fifth-pile" absentee ballots in Minnesota. These are ballots that initially were rejected by the counties, but that upon further ...
Reid calls on Coleman to concede
thehill.com 1/6/2009 — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that while Democrats will not seek to seat Democrat Al Franken today, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) should concede the election. In his inaugural address to the 111th Congress, Reid referred to the ...
Coleman: I'm Going To Court
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 ...
Is Norm Coleman under federal investigation?
thinkprogress.org 12/7/2008 — Last month, Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) came under fire in a lawsuit alleging that a donor, Nasser Kazeminy , used an insurance company that employs Coleman’s wife to pass money to Coleman illegally. After a watchdog group requested a federal ...
Coleman Says 'God Wants Me to Serve'
blog.lib.umn.edu 2/9/2009 — While Al Franken remains fairly elusive, Norm Coleman is keeping a high profile these days as his court challenge of the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount plods along. Coleman is adept, somewhat too adept, his critics might say, at skillfully tailoring...
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