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Still Waiting on MinnesotaPosted on Jun 26, 2009
It’s been nearly eight months since Minnesotans went to the polls and they still don’t know who one of their senators is. Norm Coleman trails Al Franken by 312 votes and the case is now in the hands of Minnesota’s Supreme Court, if only it could be bothered to rule.
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By rodney, June 27 at 9:27 pm #
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Norm Coleman must have asked himself a million times Where was Jeb Bush when I needed him?
Report thisBy BigIslandDave, June 27 at 2:41 pm #
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Republicans will always lie, cheat and steal to get their way. Or pout and hold their breath. They’re simply incapable of honest, upright, moral behavior. Power and money are all they care about.
Report thisBy mill, June 27 at 12:25 am #
Roger Lemonde
Nah ... Iran has some nice aspects to it.
He should be our lead negotiator with dear little leader in north korea. on station at the DMZ ... waiting for instructions ...
no worse than some 30,000 US military personnel who are already there
Report thisBy mill, June 27 at 12:17 am #
Minnesotans are clearly not of one mind about who should serve as our second US Senator. We’re pretty evenly split re taste for the 2 major parties, not just in Senate races. The parties tend to be more hard core up here because of the caucus system, which drives who ends up running political affairs.
There’s been 50 million dollars spent by the two major party candidates so far in the Minnesota US Senator election, and it’s aftermath. It didn’t all come from Minnesota, but it’s effect was to drive up the negatives on both Mr. Coleman and Mr. Franken. Neither is the low-life slug that core partisans regularly assert, but that is the anchor for public perception.
50 million dollars, and we’re wondering what the Mn Supreme Court will conclude, though the bets are on Mr. Franken being declared.
50 million dollars ...and are people better informed about anything other than the gross failings of the other guy?
50 million dollars .... and lots of people still believe utterly false things about candidates, policy effects, what will result if the “other” wins.
It’s as though we spend more money to lower the collective understanding of what’s going on. It’s as though the deep pocket people are willing to fund any lie, any manipulation that results in their candidate’s success.
Sad.
Report thisBy boggs, June 26 at 7:26 pm #
The Senate has allowed this fiasco to play out for seven months, because it has given them seven months of having an excuse of not quite having the majority we need, especially when there are a handful of pre-screened democrats who will vote with the republican side. Their job comes with crying towels.
Report thisBy samosamo, June 26 at 6:05 pm #
Can anyone tell me who will try harder to fuckup a wet dream than a republican?
Or would it be easy to fuckup a steel ball?
Maybe a blue dog democrat?
Report thisOr a ‘know better than you’ christian?
By purplewolf, June 26 at 3:52 pm #
Norm Coleman, you old queen, your reign is over and was over last November. All expenses wasted in your illogical fight to keep the new representative from serving the public who voted him in, should come from your own personal money and not the tax payers. Because of your arrogance and ignorance you have denied the public their choice. Therefore, Al Franken’s stay in office should legally be extended the number of months/years you have denied to accept THAT YOU LOST! and have kept him from doing the job you were fired from.
Talk about Republican bullheadedness.
Report thisBy Eric L. Prentis, June 26 at 12:37 pm #
Republican Norm Coleman screwed things up again and is now just a dead weight on the political system. Norm, stick a fork in yourself, your done.
Report thisBy Rodger Lemonde, June 26 at 9:06 am #
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Let’s appoint Norm Coleman ambassador to Iran.
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