What about the CHICKENHAWK BANNER?

The first of the links is to what some moonbats at the Strib’s discussion forum denied ever existed. The Strib server has been down for hours, so I couldn’t rub their noses in this info.

Smart people like you are really great to have around so we can ask you to answer important meaningful questions that stump us common folk. And to prove your brain is bigger and better (even after smoking pot since the 7th grade) it you are going to include a link to your highly rated ranked self published blog that will blow away MDE. Right??

For Norm to state that he was paying fair market value, he would have to either be colossally stupid, or believe that the voters are. To wit, I will provide you with the link to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, who tracks fair market values for rent. To save you the time, for 2007, they said that an efficiency apartment, which this does not seem to be, would be $995. That means that Norm is paying roughly 40 percent LESS than fair market value for the cheapest type of housing identified.

http://www.huduser.org/datasets/fmr/fmrs/2007summary.odb?INPUTNAME=METRO47900M47900*District+of+Columbia&county_select=yes&state_name=District+of+Columbia&data=2007&statefp=11.0&fmrtype=%24fmrtype%24

You are correct on the second point. He is no longer a registered lobbyist. And in a sign of good taste for the people of Minnesota, he has also apparently divested from the firm that supports rouge nations. I guess you could say he is like the Pat Shortridge of this fiasco. Shortridge, if you recall, was the former Enron lobbyist who came to town to help get Mark Kennedy into the Senate.

And, if making delinquent payments is a defense, then what was all the dust up about Al Franken I heard from your side earlier this year?

Why? the bootlickers were tossin’ misinformation around ’bout Franken, but I don’t you remember complainin’ ’bout that.

you need to go back and research your facts. at least 2 of the 3 are blatantly wrong.

coleman contends the rents are fmv. there may be others that say it is not, but not coleman.

he is not renting from a lobbyist. he is renting from a gop supporter. you need to be registered to be a lobbyist.

and the final point, i understood based on news reports he had made payment of the delinquent rents, not “skipped” them.

1) He pays way under market price for an apartment.
2) He is renting from a lobbyist
3) He has skipped rent on occasion without consequence.

Seems to me, this is more than an allegation of impropriety, it is a total conviction. And rather than simply admit the lapse in judgment while moving to a less ethically challenged address, Norm is simply denying that there is anything wrong with accepting such gifts from lobbyists.

This is why he is wrong for Minnesota.

According to the liberal playbook, chapter 1 one page 2.

“The person who you accuse is presummed guilty.”

MPR’s Mark Zdechlik reports that Al Franken’s website says the DFL candidate for U.S. Senate no longer supports a federal gas tax increase. You can read the report here.

NO SURPRISE!!!!! Why can’t we have a candidate who doesn’t flop all over when opinion polls show him down.

still waiting for evidence Team Franken was behind the “Laurie Coleman” commercial scandal.

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/07/01/franken_gastax/

Sound the alarm–Norm’s pants are on fire!

Who cares about Schumer? He’s not running for anything in Minnesota is he? And Mikey, we’ll be waiting for your evidence that CREW is a “Team Franken front group.” You have really made a leap here. Scared?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/garden/18roomies.html?ref=style

Michael, Norm has access to the basement’s media center and oak bar listed in the 2007 real estate ad, right?

Leroy Jenkins, Coleman paid rent, even if it was late a couple of months.

For $750 per month, Senator Schumer has access to the entire home, which includes access to a full kitchen and living room. Senator Coleman rents a small bedroom with a bathroom in the basement for $600 per month.

Norm Coleman did NOT live in the Republic of South Vietnam in that he was an anti-war protester and did not pass his NEW YORK draft physical.

Who do I have to give access to to get a deal like Coleman’s?

Schumer: Pays his rent.
Coleman: Sometimes pays his rent

Schumer: Has three congressional roommates
Coleman: Shares his apartment with a lobbying firm

I could go on…

CREW… gimme a break.

I actually don’t see this as having “legs”

Can we please get back to attacking rather than defending

Who is Norm sharing his place with?

I might be able to clear my calendar, next week. Have your peeps get back to mine, will ya, Michael?