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Thursday, February 5th, 2009Wcco’s Esme Murphy has a post up today seeking to find out where Al Franken has been: “Tomorrow it will be a month since I have seen Al Franken. Make that since anyone in Minnesota has seen Franken. That was the day he proclaimed victory after the Canvassing Board certified his 225-vote win. He took [...]
PIONEER PRESS: “JUDGE VOWS TO ENSURE ‘EVERY LEGALLY CAST AND WRONGFULLY REJECTED BALLOT’ IS COUNTED”
Thursday, February 5th, 2009“Settle in. There’s more ballot counting coming, and it could take weeks. For the first time in court Wednesday, the judges hearing Republican Norm Coleman’s lawsuit to overturn Democrat Al Franken’s 225-vote lead in the U.S. Senate race made clear they plan to include more ballots in the race. ‘The panel is going to take [...]
TOWNHALL’S AMANDA CARPENTER TALKS ABOUT AL FRANKEN’S TAXES ON “THE O’REILLY FACTOR”
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “SEN. JOHN ENSIGN WEIGHS IN ON MN SENATE RACE”
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009“The voters of Minnesota were the real winners yesterday when the court rightly decided to review thousands of rejected absentee ballots. I am confident that at the end of this process Norm Coleman will be the Senator for the people of Minnesota — he won the vote on Election Night, and he will ultimately be [...]
POLITICO: “COLEMAN WINS IN COURT”
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009“Norm Coleman may be down in the count, but his attempt to hold onto his Senate seat isn’t over yet. A three-judge panel ruled that as many as 4,790 rejected absentee ballots can be considered for inclusion in the Minnesota Senate recount, adding a new wrinkle to the long-lasting Minnesota Senate recount between Coleman and [...]
COLEMAN RECOUNT UPDATE: “COURT’S RULING A VICTORY FOR MINNESOTA VOTERS!”
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009ST. PAUL – Ben Ginsberg, legal spokesman for the Coleman for Senate campaign, today released the following statement regarding today’s ruling by the three judge election contest panel: “This is a victory for thousands of Minnesotans whose rejected absentee ballots will now be properly reviewed in this election. We’ve continually called for every valid vote [...]
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE STAR TRIBUNE: “RECOUNT TRIAL: JUDGES RULE THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS CAN BE CONSIDERED”
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009“Nearly 4,800 rejected absentee ballots may be considered in the Senate recount trial, according to a ruling from the three-judge panel hearing the dispute between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. The court order indicates that all absentee ballots that complied with state law should be counted, along with those where errors occurred through [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: THEY SAID IT
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009FYI – The MN GOP sent this out earlier today. ### Former Senate Democrat Aide “Reid has too much egg on his face from Burris. With [Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)] dug in until the courts rule, I suspect Reid will just sit back and wait until the court has certified…” (David M. Drucker, [...]
RED STATE: “DASCHLE, GEITHNER, AND FRANKEN: TAX CHEATS”
Monday, February 2nd, 2009From Red State: “A tremendous amount of attention has been focused recently on Tom Daschle’s $140k tax blunder. It turns out that he didn’t even disclose any of his to Barack Obama after Obama nominated him. Note that this even included not paying the Medicare for his driver. And people paid attention to now Treasury [...]
MUST READ FROM THE STAR TRIBUNE: “SENATE RECOUNT TRIAL: VALID BALLOTS WERE REJECTED, EXPERT SAYS”
Monday, February 2nd, 2009“Confusion over election rules and the crush of Election Day business caused local officials to mistakenly disqualify numerous ballots that remain uncounted to this day, an elections expert testified Friday in the trial over Minnesota’s U.S. Senate recount. The argument that valid but excluded ballots still exist, and should be counted, is the centerpiece of [...]
COLEMAN DISCUSSES ELECTION CONTEST ON “WCCO SUNDAY MORNINGâ€
Sunday, February 1st, 2009Below is a key excerpt from today’s show: Esme Murphy: “Let me ask you: what is it that you’re seeking? Are you seeking- do you want this three judge panel to go over each of these 11,000 votes to see if they should be included?†Sen. Coleman “We’re seeking to make sure that every validly [...]
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