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COLEMAN FOR U.S. SENATE PRESS RELEASE: “U.S. SENATOR NORM COLEMAN JOINS CALL FOR APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES TO INVESTIGATE LAWSUITS”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | November 12, 2008
ST. PAUL – Statement by U.S. Senator Norm Coleman:
“As another Democratic group that spent millions of dollars attempting to defeat me calls for a politically motivated investigation, I want to be clear that I not only welcome such an investigation, but I am eager to have it move forward immediately. The fact that a United States Senator is being used as a tool of extortion by private parties should be of concern to all Minnesotans. I reiterate that none of the allegations which attempt to besmirch my family’s good name and reputation are true. This investigation should move forward, and it is my hope that those who were behind this matter, their motives and what their connections may be to my political opponents be reviewed aggressively by the appropriate authorities and the media. This matter, which has emerged again as a result of the tactics of my political opponents, during a recount, ought to raise even further suspicions in the minds of Minnesotans as to its motives and purposes.â€Â Â
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November 12th, 2008 at 2:17 PM
The guy who has been complaining louder than anyone for the last eight years about George W. Bush ‘stealing’ the election in 2000 is Al Franken.
But Angry Al isn’t too opposed to stealing elections, because that is exactly what he is doing right now — stealing an election.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:28 PM
This is most interesting because it raises more questions by far than it gives answers.
Who was extorting what from whom, or attempting it, and how, exactly?
How was Senator Coleman being “used as a tool”?
Used as a means, that could include a passive dimension.
“Used as a tool,” is the Senator’s chosen wording, and you do not use a tool passively, there is some active use – where the tool is by the nature of active use, privy to the process.
How was this Senator privy to being used as a tool? When did it happen? What was his earliest disclosure of being “used as a tool”?
I think that language alone, never mind the clarion call Senator Norm Coleman used to invite an investigation, is by itself cause to want to inquire. I believe the best possible starting point is for the mainstream media to press the Senator to explain himself publicly, not to glide and slide, but name names, state dates, describe actions and activities. Less than that would just look very, very bad.