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Coleman: Too Much At Stake for Recount
Talking Points Memo —
Coleman: I'm Too Important For A Recount
TalkLeft —
Did you know that Norm Coleman is too important for a recount? Where's Justice Scalia when you need him? Via TPM: For the record the "magnitude" of Coleman's lead is 305 votes out of 2,859,891 cast. Or 0.001%. Coleman says that if he was in Al Franken's shoes, he would concede. I submit that he is in Al Franken's shoes - it was a virtual tie. So he can concede if he feels so strongly about it. By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only
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The Minnesota Senate Recount
TalkLeft —
With the main work of the Minnesota Canvassing Board on the Minnesota recount complete, it has been reported that Al Franken holds a 48 vote lead. What's left to do? One thing is to deal with certain rejected absentee ballots. The Minnesota Supreme Court issued a ruling that required the parties to try and work it out and identify which ballots should be counted (MN NPR reports the camps have come up with a system for dealing with these ballots but as I read it, it is an agreement to agree to a system, not an actual agreement). It can safely be assumed that the parties will not agree on all or even most of the ballots. But one assumes a consistent standard will be ...
Norm Coleman's stimulus plan for Republican lawyers
Daily Kos —
A short time ago, Norm Coleman announced his intention to file a legal challenge to Al Franken's victory in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race. Yes, this is the same Norm Coleman who two months ago -- when he was leading the vote count process -- said that if he were in Al Franken's shoes, he'd step aside. Now, two months, several lawsuits, and painstakingly comprehensive recount later, Norm Coleman has changed his mind and has decided all he wants to do is sue. The thing is, Coleman doesn't stand a chance of winning the election, whatever the outcome of his legal battle. The only reason ...
Coleman Exposes Credit Cards of His Website Donors: 'Hannity' Reacts to Latest MN Scandal...
The BRAD BLOG —
Imagine, if you will, that the situation had been reversed, and that it had been Norm Coleman who was found to have received more votes than Al Franken for the U.S. Senate seat in MN.
Imagine if Al Franken's campaign, as opposed to Norm Coleman's, had now been found to have disclosed the names and credit card numbers of their donors on their own website, where they also inappropriately stored the unencrypted three-digit security codes of contributor credit cards, violated state law by failing to notify anybody about it, and then lied about it.
Imagine if everything --- actually, if any one of the dozens of improprieties ...
