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MDE EXCLUSIVE: DFL DNA/FINGERPRINTS ON LEGAL COMPLAINT?
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 31, 2008
I’ve been reviewing what U.S. Senator Norm Coleman’s campaign has called a “defamatory” lawsuit – lawsuit which contained baseless allegations that have made news in the 11th hour of this campaign. I couldn’t help but notice a striking similarity between exhibit “A†and a ridiculous DFL chart which both used the same concept of a multitude of steps to reach a false allegation.
Please click the image above for a larger version. Note the use of the diagram, lines and numbers. The similarities between the document begs the question: were DFL operatives and/or representatives of Team Franken involved in the raising bogus, last minute claims in an attempt to steal this election? Are political motivations behind what Coleman’s campaign called a “defamatory” lawsuit”?
In a press statement released moments ago, U.S. Senator Norm Coleman dropped a bombshell: reporters for the Star Tribune had a copy of the lawsuit before it was filed:
“Let me tell you how this arose. This is not about public documents researched by an investigative reporter. No. Sometime last week, even before this Texas lawsuit was originally filed, a copy of these false allegations was delivered in Minnesota in an unmarked envelope to two Minneapolis Star Tribune reporters.” Source: Coleman for U.S. Senate Press release, October 31, 2008
I’ll repeat my question: were DFL operatives and/or representatives of Team Franken involved in the raising bogus, last minute, claims in an attempt to steal this election? Are political motivations behind what Coleman’s campaign called a “defamatory” lawsuit”?
Please check back to Minnesota Democrats Exposed for more information on this developing story.
UPDATE: This will remain the top post on Minnesota Democrats Exposed for the balance of today, New posts will appear below.
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October 31st, 2008 at 11:47 AM
What a joke. Those two charts have really nothing in common… but thanks for illustrating to your readers other ways that Norm Coleman is corrupt.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:48 AM
spin…spin…spin..
Don’t you ever get dizzy Mikie….
Grasping at similar looking charts now…
Wow you are really struggling…
October 31st, 2008 at 11:56 AM
It’s bad news for Team Coleman if this is the “exclusive.”
October 31st, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Aaron: You’re a liar.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Those two charts have really nothing in common…
Aaron must read his screen using braille. Any thinking person can see the obvious similarities.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Aaron, fascist coward is bleating again? Aaron, don’t you have some swastikas to go paint? You fascist idiot.
Lying, fradulent DEMOCRATS have the AUDACITY to preach bullshit change. First, the “change” they advocate is the same old socialist bullshit that’s failed everywhere it’s been implemented. Their “change” is more of the same.
Second, lying fradulent DEMOCRATS deliver nothing but more of the same old fascist dirty tricks that they are famous for.
DFL: Dumb fucking liberals.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Beyond all the bullshit, these charts illustrate why DFL thinking is so completely and thoroughly fucked up. Wild imaginations plus delusions of grandeur equals the typical DFL asshole.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:31 PM
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October 31st, 2008 at 12:51 PM
50 easy steps? Who are they trying to convince? A bunch of truthers? If they wanted to bring down Coleman with a “scandal” at the last minute they should have found one that doesn’t require an engineering diagram to explain it. Franken loses some large fraction of undecided voters with every line in that diagram.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:05 PM
More like “DFL Guide to Character Assassination in 50 Easy Steps.”
What a bunch of goddam lying liars.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:06 PM
I have some flow charts at home.
One shows how Al Franken knowingly and willingly pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars that were bilked from a charity that serves underpriviledged kids.
I’ve got another chart that shows how Al lied about his shameful involvement in a scam that bilked $800k from a charity that serves underpriviledged kids.
Finally, I have one that proves this lawsuit has the fetid stink of Al Franken and his craven, DFL butt boys all over it.
Trust a leftist scumbag from New York to drag his scumbag tactics to Minnesota with him.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:13 PM
Well we’re faced with on of two possibilities here:
1. The lawsuit is a coordinated attempt by the DFL to use 11th hour sleeze tactics and lies to defeat Norm Coleman, including their intentional leaking of the lawsuit to the press BEFORE IT WAS A PUBLIC DOCUMENT. There are two ways the DFL could have gotten it BEFORE it was made public – by being involved or by stealing it.
2. The plaintiffs are lying and this IS a politically timed and motivated lawsuit, as evidenced by their leaking it to the press BEFORE IT WAS MADE PUBLIC. There would be no reason to leak this prior to its filing other than to score points against Norm Coleman.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:25 PM
I have a flow chart at home too. It shows the direct line between Al Franken and the 18 states WHERE HE DID NOT PAY HIS TAXES FOR OVER 5 YEARS.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:26 PM
Or 3….
Norm’s Guilty as his buddy Ted..
October 31st, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Say des? Are you trying to compete with Cheeto boy for the most dim-witted comment ever posted to MDE?
Well, you’re going to have to get in line, boy; Leroy has been putting in the hours himself.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Wow, both figures have lines _and_ numbers!
Obviously, this is evidence of nefarious cooperation between McKim and the DFL.
Michael, you’ve apparently never had a class in operations research. Otherwise you would recognize that both figures follow a standard shortest-path diagram style.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Without comment:
MinnPost:
Final thought: It’s possible McKim could be a Republican, and yet blame politics for the timing? After all, McKim may well have greater leverage in (now-undone) settlement talks in a campaign’s final days.
However, according to Frommer, McKim’s lawyer says “the timing was dictated instead by Kazeminy, who asked McKim over the summer to leave the company for 90 days — a period that was to end Friday.”
PiPress:
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in March 2007, Kazeminy called Thomas and, “in that conversation, Kazeminy told Mr. Thomas that ‘U.S. Senators don’t make [expletive deleted.]‘ and that he was going to find a way to get money to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota and wanted DMT in the process.” According to the suit, Thomas asked McKim whether they should follow Kazeminy’s orders and McKim told him it was not appropriate and repeated that to Kazeminy.
“In this same conversation, Kazeminy told Mr. McKim that he [Kazeminy] would make sure there was paperwork to make it appear as though the payments were made in connection with legitimate transactions, explaining that Sen. Coleman’s wife, Laurie, worked for the Hays Companies (“Hays”) an insurance broker in Minneapolis, and that the payments could be made to Hays for insurance,” according to the suit. “When Mr. McKim made further objections, Kazeminy repeatedly threatened to fire Mr. McKim, telling him ‘this is my company’ and that he and Mr. Thomas had better follow his orders in paying Hays.”
==
October 31st, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Well Mike’s desperate, that would be strange since even the plaintiffs say they are allegeing Coleman and his wife did NOTHING wrong.
Nice try though.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:53 PM
…what Coleman’s campaign called a “defamatory†lawsuitâ€?”
“Defamation”??!?
Then Norm should sue The Texan for defamation, and demand that The Texan amend his lawsuit to remove any and all references to Norm Coleman and Norm Coleman’s wife.
This should be no problemo for ol’ Smokescreen; we’ve seen ol’ Smokescreen has no problemo with filing lawsuits during campaign seasons.
The fact Coleman is NOT filing suit against The Texan leads reasonable people to believe there’s reasonable basis for The Texan including Norm Coleman and Norm Coleman’s wife.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Chestnut Says:
DFL: Dumb fucking liberals.
Let’s how far MBB will let us go with the foul mouth lies.
Today’s Republican Party, the political arm and favorite party of Stormfront.
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Why the $75,000 number?
Why this business guy?
Those questions has to be answered with more than just a dismissal.
I like the idea but, don’t think Norm is that stupid. The rent, suits and vacations are not direct cash payments and lie in that gray area that Norm likes to operate in. This is so in the wrong, its tough.
I think his Iranian friend is a douche and pissed off one of his business partners. His business partner probably noticed 75,000 to the insurance company Laurie works for, no doubt a sweetheart contract by the Iranian. The Texan saw this, and decided to smoke out his Iranian business partner as a shady in public with this. Laurie may be an innocent victim.
Norm is scratching from the fleas he’s got from laying with dogs.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:25 PM
“Let’s how far MBB will let us go with the foul mouth lies.”
Well, your appearance here proves his tolerence for foul smelling liars is pretty high, Zeigler.
“I think his Iranian friend is a douche..”
Well, I guess we’ll have to defer to your expertise where douche is concerned…*LMAO*
October 31st, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Didn’t Sen. Barkley work on Kinky Friedman’s campaign for Texas Governor?
October 31st, 2008 at 2:38 PM
“Those questions has to be answered with more than just a dismissal.”
Fuck you fascist David J. Ziegler. The “questions” are bullshit lies contrived by bullshit fascist Democrats playing bullshit dirty tricks.
You want to raise stupid lies as questions, answer them yourself you stupid, fascist pile of dog shit.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:54 PM
“leads reasonable people to believe there’s reasonable basis for The Texan” – Tommy Johnson, Oct. 31, 2008
You tell him, Tommy! You’re clearly a reasonable person and you don’t wear a tinfoil hat. You and your astute analysis know no bounds. Keep us on your big shoulders, Tommy! America needs you and your non tinfoil hat wearing reasoning abilities. Now reasonably tell those bootlickers to go (cheney) themselves. Yeah!
Tommyerica!
F*ck Yeah!
October 31st, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Methinks the Repbulicans protest too much. Why all the panic and naughty words if Coleman is squeaky clean? And why isn’t Coleman’s last minute bogus lawsuit considered a sleazy dirty political stunt? Did Norm and Laurie pay taxes on that $75000??? Wouldn’t THAT be poetic justice if this was also a tax evasion issue?
October 31st, 2008 at 3:03 PM
We’re outraged that the kind of flthy scumbags that support a man that steals from children come over here and leave slime tracks all over the comment thread, sarah.
Any other questions?
October 31st, 2008 at 3:09 PM
Hey Sarah, the dead yeast in the bottom of my home-brew fermenter have more brains than fascist piles of shit like you.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:12 PM
And for the record, we’re just following Barak Obama’s advice to “get in your face.”
October 31st, 2008 at 3:12 PM
Chestnut must be another good Christian Republican. I can just feel all that good Christian love flowing from his post.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:17 PM
Hey Sarah, ol’ Chester is the perfect example of the mindset of the Right. Swiftee articulates their priorities. Brodkorb sits back like some impotent Nevada Boxing Commissioner and let it fly.
Anyway, I think Chester’s sweet on you.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:20 PM
What do you care Sarah, you don’t believe in God anyway.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Fuck you Ziggy, you fascist, anti-American pile of dog crap.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Ziggy has the gall to hate the U.S.A. and the Constitution, to want to destroy our republican democracy and then bitch about my mindset.
Move to Cuba, dip shit. I’m sure they can find a nice job for you killing political dissenters… You can follow in the footsteps of the despot Che Guevera… that’s what you fascists like to do, isn’t it?
October 31st, 2008 at 3:26 PM
Christian Republicans have a lot of work to do before they ever get to the level of Jewish Democraps that steal from kids, sarah…to say nothing of the lowlives that support him.
Can you spell scumbag, sarah? Sure you can, let’s do it together, shall we?…A L F R A N K E N.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:38 PM
I bet Kinky, Jessie and Barkley are grinning from ear to ear as Franken gets the blame for this little move..
October 31st, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Franken’s not Jewish. He was raise that way, but he’s agnostic/atheist in practice.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:05 PM
There are DOCUMENTS:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1008/Ledger_details_payment_to_firm_employing_Laurie_Coleman.html
October 31st, 2008 at 4:06 PM
I bet Kinky, Jessie, and Barkley all have big ‘ol smiles on their faces while Franken gets the blame.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:09 PM
My goodness, Chester and Swift are switch-hitting back to back pretty damn good today. You must practice a lot, who pitches to whom, you know, while you’re practicing.
Oh, we know Swift wasn’t talking about Franken, he using a generality of his true beliefs. The Party of Stormfront steps up.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Wow, PlyDim!
Thanks for hauling that over to us!
Now, you should print those documents out, underline all of the especially damning parts, make notes in the margins, carefully fold them into an unmarked envelope, take them over to Team Franken Headquarters and have the man himself poke them up you a** with Cheeto boy’s head.
K?
October 31st, 2008 at 4:16 PM
“My goodness, Chester and Swift are switch-hitting back to back pretty damn good today.”
You haven’t seen nothing, Zeigler…ask your wife!
*LMAO*
October 31st, 2008 at 4:19 PM
At first I questioned the timing of this, but then, seeing Michael go into panic mode, I am starting to think that Norm is beginning to look more and more guilty. With every move, he is slipping deeper and deeper into the career ending tar pit.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Swiftee Says:
*LMAO*
That’s not what happened to it.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:21 PM
“I am starting to think that Norm is beginning to look more and more guilty.”
Oh, crap! NOW we’re doomed as doomed can be!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!
October 31st, 2008 at 4:22 PM
“That’s not what happened to it.”
Well ya got me there. We were FOAO…but I was trying to be polite.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
October 31st, 2008 at 5:29 PM
I just have to say I don’t understand Chesnut or Swiftee. They’ve been saying for six months how Angry Al says this or that. In the same posts they lash out so angerly. F-this, scumbag that. Dip$hit blah, blah, blah. Makes you wonder how they treat their families when they get mad. Worse yet, how do they function in society. Hell, Obama has a 19-point lead. Do they hate a majority of Minnesotans too? Their neighbors, co-workers? Are they Anti-Minnesotans?
I can read the mud thrown around on this site, but when half of the comments are those two beating on the keyboard it makes me ill.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Just one more DFL dirty trick—absolutely shameful!
October 31st, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Sen. Norm Coleman, LIAR!
SEN. COLEMAN
“Sometime last week, even before this Texas lawsuit was originally filed, a copy of these false allegations was delivered in Minnesota in an unmarked envelope to two Minneapolis Star Tribune reporters.”
Star Tribune managing editor Rene Sanchez:
Says Sanchez, “We did not get a copy of this lawsuit until after it was filed Monday.”
= = =
If the truth is on his side, why is he making stuff up?
October 31st, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Say Dejected moonbat?
I advise two aspirin and never dragging your pathetic, whiney little self back here.
You’ll feel much better, I promise.
October 31st, 2008 at 7:35 PM
When I picture you right-wing screech monkeys, especially you chestnutz and swiftless, I see a parent’s basement or a run down trailer park or a screaming, seig-heiling mob at a nazi rally. What a sorry, sad, pathetic bunch you are. You will have a lot more to complain about after the election when your bush loving candidates are picked up like dead mice from Minnesota’s kitchen floor and tossed into the trash bin.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:16 PM
I came back to this post tonight because it cracks me up so much.
OMG LOOK TWO CHARTS
October 31st, 2008 at 8:19 PM
When i picture you left-wing moonbats,I see an aging hippie that still can`t believe the 60`s are over driving a Subaru with a rainbow sticker on the back window the says ‘God loves dykes’ or some such. What a pathetic bunch of anti-American, terrorist-lovin, tax -raising idiots you are.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:22 PM
“Star Tribune managing editor Rene Sanchez:
Says Sanchez, “We did not get a copy of this lawsuit until after it was filed Monday.—
The Star Tribune getting a copy of the lawsuit is not the same as two of thier reporters getting a copy in an unmarked envelope.
Both statements can be true simultaneously
October 31st, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Hey j.l., since it’s Halloween get well with yourself, break out the good beer and suck a couple down. Then go back in the double wide and kiss the dog, slap the wife and screw your sister (unless they’re the same in which case skip a step). You’ll feel better in the morning once you listen to Michael Savage and Sean Hannity.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:49 PM
slo “Gooooooooooo, Al! Yoooooouuuuuuur Pal!”
October 31st, 2008 at 8:53 PM
Wow-Pretty lame, radarski. Further evidence of the ‘tolerant left.’ I`m sure you were captain of your high school debate team with responses like that.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:50 PM
The stench coming off the Coleman campaign currently is really becoming pungent.
God I love the smell of a rotting republican campaign in the morning (or at noon, or at night).
How long until Hays throws Norm under the bus? They are in risk managment. They must see the risk in walking into court to face a guy with a lot of damning photocopies.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:56 PM
Seriously, is “Note the use of the diagram, lines and numbers. The similarities between the document begs the question….” the best you can do? That is some minor league logic right there… about as credible as saying “Note the use of the letters c, r, o, o, and k in the name Michael B. Brodkorb. The similarities begs the question of whether he is….” Back to the drawing board for whoever writes the stuff on this website. These aren’t the first two association charts… won’t be the last. But thanks for making the picture about Coleman’s nafarious connections a little more clear. Senator Norm Coleman… what a joke.
November 1st, 2008 at 12:05 AM
What we have here is two Republicans swearing in a legal document that Norm’s Republican friend Kazeminy bullied them into sending Norm’s wife’s company $75,000, in order to get it to Norm, because he didn’t make enough money as a senator.
With photocopies, canceled checks, and company documents. And related financial hijinx.
Republican mismanagement? Republicans ripping off shareholders for their own enrichment? Republicans lying? Republicans illegally slipping Norm some extra cash?
Totally unbelievable… right? Right?!?
Aaaaarrrggghhhh !!!!??!!!
What has happened to our wonderful victory? Our victory party is in shambles!!!
No! Vote for the chick! Vote for the CHICK! Ignore the lawsuit!
November 1st, 2008 at 7:56 AM
Ted Stevens never asked for the construction work on his house, it just happened. The bottom line is, if the company received money fraudulently as a result of Laurie Colemans employment there, lines have been crossed and laws have been broken.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:53 AM
The fact that Laurie Coleman’s employer received $75k is not in dispute. Why they received it and what happened after that is not clear.
If the Coleman campaign wanted to end this story, Hays could furnish evidence of what they did for DMT, and the Colemans could disclose how much $ Laurie earns from Hays and what she does to earn it.
My guess is they won’t. Allies will say they should not have to; opponents will say they can’t because no work was ever done.
And the band blogged on.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:55 AM
There was no violation of any laws or crossing of any lines.
That’s quite a statement. Care to back it up with anything other than your own opinion?