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2009-06-02 Home Front: Politix

Battle Over Unfilled U.S. Senate Seat Goes Before Minnesota Supreme Court

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Posted by Steve White 2009-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Al Franken? You elected Al Franken? You state is full of nothing but idiots.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-06-02 04:11|| 2009-06-02 04:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Knock Franken all you want, but Coleman did not lose by 225 as per the State Canvassing Board or 312 as per the Election Contest Court, but by .... 63,209.
That's right - more than 63,000 McCain supporters did not want Coleman to get a second term. It was evident by the silence during Coleman's acceptance speech at the MN-GOP convention that the Republicans weren't happy with him. Coleman would have had a better chance if he would have appeared at any of the McCain rallies ... all it would have taken was to "rally" a few hundred people and he would have won.

Posted by Minnesota Central">Minnesota Central 2009-06-02 09:00|| http://www.minnesotacentral.blogspot.com]">[http://www.minnesotacentral.blogspot.com] 2009-06-02 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 To the MN voters supporting Franken, I believe this posting from yesterday must certainly apply.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-06-02 09:28|| 2009-06-02 09:28|| Front Page Top

#4 There is something in the water in Minnesota. This is the same state that also elected Jesse Ventura as Governor.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-06-02 09:46|| 2009-06-02 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course there is no "evidence". The absentee ballots in question are SEALED. The whole point is that Coleman is asking to look them over so that he can present exactly the evidence that the court is asking for. The court is making a really dumb, circular and self-serving argument.

There are wide discrepancies between how absentee ballots were counted in the various counties. To no one's surprise, the Franklinstein leaning counties applied much looser rules. Coleman is asking that all counties count using the same standards. Franklinstein opposes this because he'd certainly lose such a count.

Also, I strongly suspect that a large percentage of the ballots Franklinstein doesn't want to count come from people serving in the military.

Posted by Iblis 2009-06-02 13:07|| 2009-06-02 13:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Two words: cage match.

Two men enter, one man leaves.

Posted by mojo 2009-06-02 14:29|| 2009-06-02 14:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Mojo - better that neither leave - Coleman lost because he's self-serving and corrupt. This is the guy who was SDS as a kid, ran for office as a democrat and then switched to GOP when he saw a chance to move up the political daisychain. The best thing for MN is if the case isn't settled until after the next election.

Posted by Snineting Bonaparte8748 2009-06-02 15:09|| 2009-06-02 15:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Snineting Bonaparte8748:

This is not Coleman in a vacuum. This is Coleman vs Al Frankin. Nuff said.

But I'll say more anyway: 60 seats.

Posted by Iblis 2009-06-02 15:36|| 2009-06-02 15:36|| Front Page Top

#9 As far as I can tell Coleman and Franken are typical of the modern American politician. A truly sad commentary on us all.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-06-02 18:52|| 2009-06-02 18:52|| Front Page Top

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