Archive for January, 2009
« Previous EntriesMN SRC PRESS RELEASE: “STATEMENT FROM ASSISTANT SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER REGARDING ADMISSION BY SENATE DFL CAUCUS THAT THEY WILL NOT PRODUCE BUDGET PROPOSAL”
Friday, January 30th, 2009(St. Paul) – In response to the statement today from Senate Assistant Majority Leader Tarryl Clark that the Senate DFL Caucus would not be producing an alternative budget proposal to solve the growing budget deficit, Assistant Senate Republican Leader David Hann (R-Eden Prairie) released the following statement: “The DFL majority has completely ducked their responsibility [...]
RNC PRESS RELEASE: “RNC EXPRESSES SUPPORT FOR SENATOR COLEMAN”
Friday, January 30th, 2009WASHINGTON – The Republican National Committee (RNC) expressed support during its winter meeting in the nation’s capital for Senator Norm Coleman’s efforts to ensure every valid vote counts in the Minnesota Senate contest. In General Counsel Blake Hall’s report to the committee he placed into the record that the RNC and its members support and [...]
POLITICO: “SENATE GOP: DON’T SEAT FRANKEN”
Thursday, January 29th, 2009The entire Senate Republican conference today signed a letter, sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, reiterating their opposition to any Democratic attempt to seat Al Franken before the Minnesota Senate trial is complete. (Politico: January 29, 2009) To read the entire letter click here.
FRANKEN CAUGHT WITH FOOT IN MOUTH! COMEDIAN’S CAMPAIGN WEBSITE STILL FEATURES VIDEO CLAIMING THEY WANT EVERY VOTE TO COUNT – WHILE LAWYERS ARGUE EVERY DAY AGAINST COUNTING THOUSANDS OF THESE VOTES!
Thursday, January 29th, 2009Um, Al – you may want to think about taking this one down…… So remember that much vaunted Franken campaign webvideo that featured a paraplegic man, a blind woman and other Minnesota voters that the Franken campaign used to try and elicit support for their “count every vote” mantra back in November? Remember all that [...]
MUST READ FROM THE PIONEER PRESS: “SOME VALID VOTES IN SENATE RACE STILL UNCOUNTED, OFFICIAL SAYSâ€
Thursday, January 29th, 2009“Minnesota’s uncounted absentee ballots were sorted, inspected, copied and examined during the state’s two-month U.S. Senate recount. But it is possible that some valid votes are still uncounted, a state official said at the race’s election trial Wednesday. Republican Norm Coleman’s attorney, Joe Friedberg, asked Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann this: ‘Based on the [...]
FORMER GORE ADVISOR DAVID BOIES ON MN SENATE RECOUNT: COLEMAN’S “GOT A CHANCE TO WIN THIS”
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009FORMER SENATOR RICK SANTORUM DISCUSSES SENATE RECOUNT ON THE MICHAEL MEDVED SHOW
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Click on the video above to listen to the interview.
COLEMAN WEBSITE BACK UP!
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009I just received a press release from Senator Coleman’s campaign saying that their website is back up and running. The website crashed this afternoon after the campaign launched a new website that allows Minnesotans to see if Al Franken is trying to keep their vote from counting. Please check out www.colemanforsenate.com to see if your [...]
COLEMAN FOR U.S. SENATE PRESS RELEASE: “THOUSANDS OF HITS CRASH COLEMAN WEBSITE”
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009ST PAUL – Information recently added to the Coleman for Senate website, whereby people can find out which Minnesota voters the Franken campaign is trying to disenfranchise, has resulted in the website being inundated by tens of thousands of hits today – temporarily crashing the website. “Minnesotans and folks across the country are fed up [...]
COLEMAN CAMPAIGN UNVEILS NEW WEBSITE: “IS THE FRANKEN CAMPAIGN PREVENTING YOUR VOTE FROM BEING COUNTED?”
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009ST. PAUL – With Al Franken continuing on his campaign to block Minnesotans’ valid votes from being counted, the Coleman for Senate campaign today launched a new website that lets Minnesotans see if their valid votes may be among the thousands that the Franken campaign doesn’t want counted. Earlier in the recount process, the Franken campaign [...]
MN SRC PRESS RELEASE: “SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER CALLS ON SENATE DFL CAUCUS TO PRODUCE BUDGET PROPOSAL TO SOLVE DEFICIT – WITHOUT RAISING TAXES”
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009(St. Paul) – In response to the release of Governor Tim Pawlenty’s proposed budget recommendations, Senate Republican Leader David Senjem (R-Rochester) today called on the Senate DFL Caucus to produce a budget proposal that solves Minnesota growing budget deficit without raising taxes. “Governor Pawlenty’s budget proposal is a starting point in the process of solving [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “STATEMENT ON GOVERNOR PAWLENTY’S BUDGET PROPOSAL”
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Republican Party of Minnesota Chair Ron Carey released the following statement regarding Governor Pawlenty’s budget proposal: “Governor Pawlenty’s proposed budget aggressively takes on the challenge of a huge deficit with investments in key priorities like education, structural reforms that look to the future, and placing a premium on job growth through tax cuts and incentives. [...]
COLEMAN FOR U.S. SENATE PRESS RELEASE: “SENATOR COLEMAN AFTER SECOND DAY OF TRIAL”
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009HYPOCRITES: CITIZENS FOR ELECTION INTEGRITY AND LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009When the recount began, the League of Women Voters and the Citizens for Election Integrity stood before members of the media and promised to protect the “integrity of the process.†Why have these groups dedicated to protecting the “integrity of the process†been so silent recently and why did they not sign on to the [...]
WORTHINGTON DAILY GLOBE: “LET THE TRIAL RUN ITS COURSE”
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009“The Coleman-Franken trial got under way Monday, and the earliest developments didn’t appear to shape up well for the Coleman camp. Nevertheless, the collective public will need to wait out the latest chapter of this ongoing recount saga — and hope that Democrats in the U.S. Senate don’t play a political game that doesn’t belong [...]
U.S. SENATOR JOHN THUNE COMMENTS ON MINNESOTA SENATE CONTEST
Monday, January 26th, 2009“Norm Coleman was ahead until a recount, which was filled with numerous inconsistencies, double-counting of votes and precincts that had more votes than voters, changed the result of the people. Every valid vote must count, and Minnesotans should applaud the efforts of Senator Coleman who is insisting that every valid vote should count, and count [...]
COLEMAN ATTORNEY BEN GINSBERG DISCUSSES RECOUNT ON FOX NEWS CHANNEL
Monday, January 26th, 2009“REPORTER: The Minnesota Senate race. No, it is not over yet. Today a three-judge panel begins taking a look at the recount which left Democrat Al Franken ahead of Republican Norm Coleman by 225 votes out of nearly 3 million cast. The judges’ decision could be months away. It finally will determine the winner whenever [...]
ELECTION CONTEST OPENS
Monday, January 26th, 2009Today the curtain came up on the election contest. Team Franken tried to stall the process and prevent some votes from being counted by protesting the review of original absentee ballots, as opposed to photocopies of the originals. Thankfully team Franken received a smack down from the court. It now looks as though the court [...]
COLEMAN FOR U.S. SENATE PRESS RELEASE: “SENATOR NORM COLEMAN ATTENDS ELECTION CONTEST TRIAL”
Monday, January 26th, 2009ST. PAUL – Senator Norm Coleman is attending the election contest trial proceedings today. The following is a statement from Senator Coleman:
COLEMAN RECOUNT UPDATE: “FRANKEN CAMPAIGN TRIES TO PREVENT VALID VOTES FROM BEING COUNTED”
Monday, January 26th, 2009ST. PAUL – In a brazen attempt to stop validly cast ballots from being counted, the Al Franken for Senate campaign today filed a brief asking that the three judge panel to not allow for previously rejected absentee ballots to be reviewed, opened and counted. The Franken campaign had previously sought the review of these [...]
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