Archive for January, 2009
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Monday, January 19th, 2009ST. PAUL – Fritz Knaak, lead recount attorney for the Coleman for Senate campaign today made the following statement: “Next week begins an important step in getting to an accurate and valid number, and to determine who really won the 2008 United States Senate election. As we indicated at the end of the canvassing board [...]
MUST READ FROM THE WSJ: “THE MINNESOTA RECOUNT WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL”
Monday, January 19th, 2009“You would think people would learn. The recount in the contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken for a seat in the U.S. Senate isn’t just embarrassing. It is unconstitutional. This is Florida 2000 all over again, but with colder weather. Like that fiasco, Minnesota’s muck of a process violates the Equal Protection Clause of [...]
MY FINAL NARN “THE FINAL WORD” TODAY FROM 3-5 P.M.
Saturday, January 17th, 2009For one last time as a full-time member of the NARN, I’ll be on the radio today for a two-hour program from 3-5 p.m. with King Banaian of SCSU Scholars on AM 1280 The Patriot. Before you listen to King and me, make sure you listen to the first four hours of the Northern Alliance [...]
SWEET: DAYTON THE COWARD FILES PAPERWORK TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR
Friday, January 16th, 2009“Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton filed papers with the state on Friday to launch his campaign for governor in 2010, joining a growing list of DFLers seeking the office. Dayton, 61, a Minneapolis DFLer who served one term in the U.S. Senate and did not seek reelection, said that as governor he would focus on [...]
MARC AMBINDER: “PROVOCATION OF THE DAY: COLEMAN COULD STILL WIN”
Friday, January 16th, 2009In some ways, Al Franken’s 225 vote lead the Minnesota Senate race is an illusory number. That’s his margin after the state canvassing board completed its recount. Why isn’t he in the Senate? Thank Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in trying to delay Blagojevich’s appointment from taking the seat, stated for the [...]
MNGOP: “THEY SAID IT! SEN. TIM JOHNSON ON MINNESOTA’S U.S. SENATE RECOUNT”
Friday, January 16th, 2009“(Sen. Tim) Johnson, who won re-election with 63 percent of the vote in November, said Congress should not jump into the fray. ‘I will leave that up to the people and the courts of Minnesota, just as the nation left it up to the people of South Dakota to decide my election,’ Johnson said.†(Faith [...]
SOUND FAMILIAR
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Al Franken and Timothy Geithner must have the same accountant. Al Franken refused to acknowledge letters informing him he had to pay worker’s compensation insurance. Timothy Geithner apparently refused to acknowledge letters from the International Monetary Fund that he needed to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. The parallels are downright comical. The Wall Street [...]
WHAT IS THE RUSH?
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Much has been made this week about Al Franken seeking to be seated in the US Senate. A seat that he has not won yet and does not hold an election certificate for. Other than what has already been written on this topic, what is the rush from team Franken to get him seated in [...]
DESPERATION
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Minnesotans deserve to know that their votes were counted properly and accurately. After all this time spent on the recount and battles fought throughout, we can most certainly take a bit of time to see this through to the end. This is apparently not how Al Franken feels. Franken is seeking all avenues that he [...]
RON CAREY IN ALBERT LEA TRIBUNE: “MINNESOTANS PICK SENATORS, NOT REID”
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada thinks he knows what’s best for Minnesota. During a recent interview with The Politico, Sen. Reid flatly declared, “Norm Coleman will never ever serve [again] in the Senate. He lost the election. He can stall things, but he’ll never serve in the Senate.†… Getting it right will take time. To be [...]
COLEMAN RECOUNT UPDATE: “FRANKEN’S DESPERATE POWER PLAY HITS ROAD BLOCK”
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009ST. PAUL – Fritz Knaak, lead recount attorney for the Coleman for Senate campaign, today released the following statement: “The Supreme Court’s scheduling order has thrown cold water on the Franken campaign’s latest power grab. Al Franken’s desperate attempt to get seated has been blunted, and is bad news for him and his campaign because [...]
STAR TRIBUNE: “GOP ACTIVISTS TO SUE OVER ALLEGED DOUBLE-COUNTING IN SENATE RACE”
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009A group of Republican activists announced today that they will file a lawsuit to eliminate alleged double-counting of votes in the U.S. Senate recount, and they invited Democrats and independents to join them in the interest of fairness. … “My vote was disenfranchised” because of the double-counting, said Scott Walker, a Republican activist from St. [...]
DFL LEGISLATOR PROPOSES NEW INCOME TAX SURCHARGE; SENATE GOP: “WORST TIME IN HISTORY TO RAISE TAXES”
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Representative Tom Rukavina is proposing an income tax surcharge to help solve the budget deficit. As noted by Senator Dave Senjem, this is “…perhaps the worst time in history to raise taxes.” ### This is a reminder that I work for the Minnesota Senate Republican Caucus. Minnesota Democrats Exposed is my personal blog and it [...]
RON CAREY: “COUNTERPOINT: PAPER’S ARTICLE ON COLEMAN WAS SHAMEFUL”
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009“At a time when people across the country are tightening their belts, scrimping to get by and saving every dollar they can, the Star Tribune owes its readers something with more insight than the salacious article on its front page Saturday. The article, titled ‘Norm Coleman: 1 house, 14 years, 12 debt terms,’ is a [...]
COLEMAN RECOUNT UPDATE: “A STATEMENT FROM FRITZ KNAAK”
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009FYI – This statement was released yesterday evening. ### ST. PAUL – Fritz Knaak, lead recount attorney for the Coleman for Senate campaign today released the following statement: “We thought we’d see the epitome of arrogance yesterday, but today Al Franken and his team have topped even themselves. In the wake of the immediate denial [...]
WHAT’S THAT OLD SAYING?
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. If somehow Franken manages to win this race maybe he won’t need the dog. He could have a friend in Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner. They could find something to talk about most likely. “President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the [...]
POLITICO: “KYL WARNS DEMS ON FRANKEN”
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl has warned Democrats not to try to seat Al Franken any time soon, and he predicts the legal process will take at least a month to unfold, meaning the Senate may be stuck with 99 members well into February. In an unusual move, Kyl went to the Senate floor this [...]
COLEMAN RECOUNT UPDATE: “A STATEMENT FROM CULLEN SHEEHAN”
Monday, January 12th, 2009ST. PAUL – Coleman for Senate Campaign Manager Cullen Sheehan today issued the following statement: “Al Franken knows he can’t win this election contest based on the major inconsistencies and discrepancies that were part of the recount, and his attempted power play today is evidence of that. He can’t and won’t be seated in a [...]
SEN. JOHN CORNYN: “MINNESOTA, NOT D.C., SHOULD CHOOSE SENATOR”
Monday, January 12th, 2009From Roll Call: Last week we saw the official swearing-in of Members of the 111th Congress, and in just over a week, the entire nation will watch history be made as Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. Obama, and just about every Member who will represent the citizens [...]
MINNEAPOLIS ELECTIONS DIRECTOR ON ELECTION JUDGES: “THEY DID MAKE MISTAKES”
Monday, January 12th, 2009“Still, Minneapolis elections director Cindy Reichert said in an interview a few weeks ago that election judges made mistakes that prevented assurances that votes weren’t counted twice. ‘They did make mistakes,’ she said of election judges. Reichert declined to talk further about the issue last week.” Source: Star Tribune, January 12, 2008 Click here for [...]
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