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COLEMAN FOR U.S. SENATE PRESS RELEASE: “COLEMAN CAMPAIGN: FRANKEN SHOULD DISAVOW ATTORNEY’S STATEMENTS ON CHALLENGING ELECTION IN UNITED STATES SENATE”
By Michael Brodkorb | November 26, 2008
ST. PAUL – Hours after the Franken campaign failed to convince the Minnesota State Canvassing Board to intervene on its behalf, Senate President Harry Reid (D-Nev) supported Franken’s attorney’s statement that they are prepared to take the Minnesota election to the U.S. Senate for a decision.
According to comments published by Talking Points Memo, Franken’s lead recount attorney, Marc Elias, said:
“There are a number of ways this can happen, whether it is at the county level, before the state canvassing board, before the courts of Minnesota, or before the United States Senate, we do not know,” said Elias — but they will see to it that every vote is counted.â€
Later Wednesday afternoon, Reid opened the door for Senate intervention into the Minnesota election processing, saying: “Today’s decision by the Minnesota Canvassing Board not to count certain absentee ballots is cause for great concern.†Reid made the statement in a release from his official U.S. Senate office.
Coleman Campaign Manager, Cullen Sheehan, responded:
“This is a stunning admission by the Franken campaign that they are willing to take this process away from Minnesotans if they fail to win the recount. It is even more stunning that the Democratic Senate leader would inject himself into the Minnesota election process. This says that Franken is fully prepared and armed to take this matter to the United States Senate and that the Senate will be receptive – even if Franken fails to succeed in winning the recount. This is a troubling new development. We call upon Al Franken to personally disavow his attorney’s comments, and to commit to Minnesotans that he will not allow this election to be overturned by the leadership of the Democratic Senate. Al Franken owes it to the people of this state to reject any and all efforts to stop a Minnesota Senator from being sworn in on January 6th if Norm Coleman continues to be shown to have won this election after the recount.â€
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November 26th, 2008 at 7:27 PM
There is nothing in Franken’s past to indicate he would deport himself with anything less than classless distinction.
November 26th, 2008 at 7:38 PM
yea..I wouldnt hold your breath waiting for assclown to do something classy….. His dream is going pooofff
November 26th, 2008 at 7:42 PM
“This is a stunning admission by the Franken campaign that they are willing to take this process away from Minnesotans if they fail to win the recount.”
I remember a certain Supreme Court decision — Bush versus Gore — where many Republicans had no problem with “tak[ing] the process away from” a state (Florida).
November 26th, 2008 at 8:08 PM
OK, maybe I’m short an IQ point or two, but how does Dingy Harry believe he can move this decision to the US Senate.
Could someone please post on this as a strategy?
Is this anything other than a campaign of misinformation to confuse the process, imply chaotic conditions, foster disbelief that the process is fair and lawful and undermine the the legitimacy of the result?
November 26th, 2008 at 8:10 PM
“Republicans had no problem with taking the process away from a state.” Not really. The Florida Supreme Court was changing the rules as they went along. U.S. Supreme Court said any re-count had to include the whole state, not just the counties that Gore wanted. Not anywhere near the same thing that`s going on here. And anyway, those few counties were re-counted after the election, and Bush still won.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:20 PM
Bush vs. Gore… The Supreme court brought and end to the shame recount in Florida. By a 7 to 2 vote (yes, Breyer and Souter voted with Bush) they declared the State of Florida has violated the Equal Protection clause by allowing only five counties to recount, and amongst the five no two had the same standards for recounting.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:29 PM
For the libtards that seem to forget.
U.S. Supreme Court said any re-count had to include the whole state, not just the counties that Gore wanted
U.S. Supreme Court said any re-count had to include the whole state, not just the counties that Gore wanted
U.S. Supreme Court said any re-count had to include the whole state, not just the counties that Gore wanted
November 26th, 2008 at 8:30 PM
Bush won recount after recount in Florida.. The SC did the whole country a favor by ending the madness… Gore did not want every vote counted…Imagine if he had actually won…. we dodged a huge bullet..
November 26th, 2008 at 8:51 PM
U.S. Supreme Court said any re-count had to include the whole state, not just the counties that Gore wanted
Don’t confuse liberals with the facts. Remember, these are the same people who can’t follow simple ballot rules by filling in a little circle.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Folks, it doesn’t matter. If overturning the election is all that stands between Harry Reid and 60 senate members, does anyone believe he would even think twice about it?
Accept it. The Democrats will win, regardless of what the voters have said.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:56 PM
How is Reid “President of the Senate”?
Is that the same as majority leader, or has Harry become US VP?
November 26th, 2008 at 9:49 PM
president pro tem maybe
November 26th, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Actually, before hanging chads and Gore’s hysteria, there was JFK. Possibly the most successful outright theft of a presidential election in contemporary history. Even many lib historians agree with that premise.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Pro tem is R. Byrd. Only Cheney is the President of the Senate. I would hope Coleman’s campaign knows that.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Maxus:
With all due respect, are you sure we dodged a huge bullet by electing George W. Bush to 8 years of failed leadership? You must be kidding, right?
Your ignorance is very astonishing!
November 26th, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Average Joe:
Every valid ballot must be counted, even those where the voters intent is evaluated. You are so full of it!
Your arrogance is astonishing!
November 26th, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Wade Seeker = Town Stooge
You heard it here first!
November 26th, 2008 at 11:09 PM
“I remember a certain Supreme Court decision — Bush versus Gore — where many Republicans had no problem with “tak[ing] the process away from†a state (Florida).”
That’s because the Supreme Court of the State of Florida had violated the U.S. Constitution. It had violated Floridians right to due process and equal protection under the law. It had also mis-interpreted Florida and Federal election law.
Harry Reid is an asshole; a complete fucking asshole, who had no basis whatsoever upon which to base his ridiculous comments today.
… not that that should surprise anyway. That stupid fucker can’t order from a menu without fucking it up.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:14 PM
“With all due respect, are you sure we dodged a huge bullet by electing George W. Bush to 8 years of failed leadership? You must be kidding, right?”
Hell yes. If you think GWB was bad, Al Gore would have been a goddam disaster.
Al Gore, who wrote a wonderful report about airport security lapses… essentially a handbook for the 9/11 Terrorists… and then did nothing… NOTHING… to stop it.
On the other hand, if Al Gore had won, and we had not dodged that bullet, at least it would have been abundantly clear who was fully responsible for letting the 9/11 attacks happen.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:14 PM
danbrome = no-tallent, ignorant, scrotum-sucking turd.
You heard it hear first.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:03 AM
“Every valid ballot must be counted, even those where the voters intent is evaluated. You are so full of it!”
You are correct-every valid ballot must be counted. However, rejected absentee ballots ARE NOT VALAD BALLOTS-by law. And BY LAW, the time to challenge them is after the election in the courts.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:17 AM
danbrome’s dream is to be a bottom boy for Madia.
You hear it hear first.
danbrome once got fisted my his mom. You heard it hear first.
November 27th, 2008 at 3:28 AM
yes broomballess..we did dodge a huge bullet.. Gore is a moonbat Extrordinaire……. an absolute Moron. you heard it here.
November 27th, 2008 at 8:09 AM
[...] COLEMAN FOR US SENATE PRESS RELEASE: “COLEMAN CAMPAIGN: FRANKEN … PAUL – Hours after the Franken campaign failed to convince the Minnesota State Canvassing Board to intervene on its behalf, Senate President Harry Reid (D-Nev) supported Franken’s attorney’s statement that they are prepared to take the … [...]
November 27th, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Lets remember one other thing about Florida:
It was because of the interference of the Florida State Supreme Court that Miami Dade County which is controlled by Democrats called off the recount that Al Gore wanted because they thought they couldn’t do a professional and fair recount plus meet the deadline given by the Florida State Supreme Court(lets remember that Palm Beach county a county similar in size to Miami Dade county failed to meet that deadline!)
Here the record is clear that once again the people who are rewriting the election laws are Al Franken and the Democrats. After all they already got a list that was nobody’s business.
They were trying to get the canvassing board to rewrite election law!
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
November 27th, 2008 at 9:09 AM
Danbrome= self absorbed ass.
heard anywhere that danbrome has opened his mouth.
November 27th, 2008 at 6:10 PM
[...] COLEMAN FOR US SENATE PRESS RELEASE: “COLEMAN CAMPAIGN: FRANKEN … PAUL – Hours after the Franken campaign failed to convince the Minnesota State Canvassing Board to intervene on its behalf, Senate President Harry Reid (D-Nev) supported Franken’s attorney’s statement that they are prepared to take the … [...]
November 27th, 2008 at 9:28 PM
As a Democrat, for the love of god do not let this go down in the Senate. I do not want to listen to this for the next 6 months. It’s not like Franken has any chance against any competent Republican in 2014 anyway.
December 1st, 2008 at 7:46 AM
What this article didn’t mention is that the Minnesota Canvassing board rejected Frankin’s request for intervention because it did not have the authority. In the press release, the Minnesota state board said that their decision ‘was not based on the merit of Frankin’s case’. In other word, the board only stated that it didn’t have the power to decide whether the absentee ballots should be counted not whether they should be counted. The implication was that each ballot could be decided on a case by case basis in court. This would be a lengthy process to say the least.
By intervening, the U.S. Senate would merely be expediting this matter by setting up an efficient arbitration process to insure that all legitimate absentee ballots are included in the finally tally. In a democracy, it’s important that all legitimate votes are counted.
Ha! I thought Republicans loved it when elections are decided by the courts:))