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MUST READ FROM CHECKS & BALANCES: “THE FRANKEN FIASCO”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | April 29, 2008
“As we watch the series of stories regarding questions over presumptive DFL nominee U.S. Senate Candidate Al Franken’s (D) tax woes in California we wonder if our earlier assessments may have been dead on. As discussions of Franken’s candidacy grew more plausible we stated our opinion of Franken being the consummate foil again U.S. Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) but eventually leaving the field in favor of another candidate. We felt this would best play out throughout the summer.
Now the questions we field regarding the Senate race with DFLers are: How much do you think Franken is damaged; can Franken pull it off or who do you think can step in? With the departure of Mike Ciresi (D) and point we are at in the endorsement it seems clear Franken is still poised to secure the DFL endorsement. We doubt Ciresi can reenter the race and no matter how badly Franken is damaged the door will remain closed to Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer (D).
As DFLers seek a way out of the current situation they are beginning look for a well heeled candidate who can self-finance and meet Coleman head on.” Source: Checks & Balances [subscription required], April 29, 2008
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
No one with any credibility has ever used the words “must read” and “Checks and Balances” in the same sentence.
But, then again, Shawn Towle and Michael Brodkorb do share a similar desire for inaccuracy.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Frank Alan,
You need to be a student of history, my friend.
Checks and Balances was the website that widely reported information from the Wellstone Campaign and DFL Party in 2002.
In addition, there is NOBODY who talks to more Democrats on Capitol Hill, or who has better connections with Democratic leaders, opinion leaders, delegates, alternates, etc, than Shawn Towle.
Regardless of what you may think of Shawn, you dismiss him and nearly 20 years of knowing what Democrats talk about better than anyone else in the blogosphere.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
One would think these guys would want to keep shoddy paperwork (”right”, republiCon Ron?) and California out of the news, but hey! If that’s the game they wanna play, count me in!!!
This one, is from the Washington Post, just a coupla months ago….
“In 2004, Coleman was pictured in this newspaper wearing a corset and garter — and posing poutily in front of a four-poster bed — all in the name of promoting her acting career. Coleman no longer is acting, she says, but “if something fun would come up, I’d pursue it.”
Against the backdrop of this kind of marketing savvy, it is hard to believe that the name Blo & Go was not chosen to, at the very least, amuse. This, after all, is a world in which the term “wide stance” churns up easy chuckles.
Coleman’s voice registers shock — and dismay– that anyone would make such a connection. “I didn’t think of that,” she says. And then she goes further to point out that the name wasn’t even her idea. It came out of a committee. It was all in the brainstorming, during which “Freedom Styler” was rejected. And so it went: You get your hair blown out. You need a blowout. You get blown . . . out. And then you go. Bingo: “Blo & Go!”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/15/AR2008011503942_pf.html
How much hasn’t Laurie Coleman reported?
Even if Al is knocked out, this blo ‘n go’s “got legs”….
April 29th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Makethepostcount:
You didn’t.
Take a survey of legislators, lobbyists and other capitol regulars, and you will find that Shawn would easily outdistance any competitor in the contest for who is the most despised person at the capitol. His personal behavior and his frequent mistakes have made him more and more irrelevant as the years go by, I guess you could say he is an older, more despised version of what Michael Brodkorb is rapidly becoming.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Frank Alan,
I see you and Two-Putt are going to personally attack anyone… “His personal behavior…” ???
Frank Alan, YOU should hope that Shawn Towle’s lawyers don’t give you a phone call for that kind of insinuation.
Keep writing, Frank Alan, I am pretty sure that the attorneys representing the accountants that Franken threw under the bus will be happy to offer their services to Shawn Towle!
I may not be Shawn’s biggest fan, but, I have a great deal of respect for some guy who has been out there, in the public arena for as long as he has, being right — and being wrong — and still trying to make it work.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
“I see you and Two-Putt are going to personally attack anyone…”
Hey! I’m more than willin’ to jump into the sewer you republiCons play in!!!
But, explain to me why Laurie, who shills her senatorial hubby on her website, isn’t fair game?
http://www.bloandgo.com
The challenge of an at-home blowout is what inspired, former runway model and wife of U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, Laurie Coleman to invent the Blo & Go, a hair-dryer holster. For years, Coleman had been jury-rigging wire coat hangers into holders for her blow-dryer so she could use both hands to style her hair. “You go on a trip with senators and you have 45 minutes and you have to be ready to go,” says Coleman, who doesn’t have the luxury of traveling with a hairstylist. “Norm’s not going to blow-dry my hair.”
April 29th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
The web site says:
“The challenge of an at-home blowout is what inspired, former runway model and wife of U.S. Senator Norm Coleman”
Is that not a true statement? Is she not the wife of Norm Coleman?
It says nothing of Norm’s campaign, Norm endorsing the product, or anything else. It says she’s married to him.
Big fikken deal. Jeez, get a life, idiot.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Makethepostcount:
To prove defamation, Shawn would have to take the survey, and get a result other than what I suggested would happen. Then, he would have to prove that I knowingly said something I knew to be untrue. Only then would the suit be allowed to progress. Since I am quite certain he couldn’t get a result other than what I suggested would occur, I feel comfortable with my statement, and my legal position.
But thanks for caring for me,
April 29th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I wonder how many lobbyists bought the Blo ‘n go?
Was THAT income reported??!?
April 29th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Shawn Towles is your source, Mikey? You are getting desperate. That guy is lucky he can spell his own name. I’m not sure which is worse–his fact-checking or his breath.
What Frank Alan says. Times ten.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Wow!
Don’t you just love it when left wingers like Frank Alan and MDE Exposer go after another left winger like Shawn Towle.
Also, interesting legal commentary from noted libel law scholar Frank Alan. (This is the only time you will see the words “Frank Alan” and “scholar” in the same sentence.)
April 29th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
And the left wingers who are commenting on this blog are so hateful when they go after Shawn Towle.
It reminds me of what Bobby Kennedy used to say: “Nobody hates like a liberal.”