Posted on 06/02/2009 6:16:40 AM PDT by steve-b
Republican Norm Coleman's legal team on Monday faced a skeptical audience of five Minnesota Supreme Court justices, who could be his last lifeline to prevent Democrat Al Franken from being seated as the state's junior senator.
During the one-hour proceeding, the five justices peppered Coleman attorney Joe Friedberg with pointed questions on whether the campaign had provided enough evidence to prove that Coleman would have won the election if additional absentee ballots were included.
Justice Christopher Dietzen, an appointee of Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty who is considered to be the court's most conservative judge, said during the hearing that Coleman's argument was filled with "legal theory" but had "no concrete evidence to back it up."...
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Shame it even came to this. Thanks, idiot voters in MN.
The lesson here for all of us is to get proactive in preparing for future elections by ensuring that our precincts, voting officials and district attorneys enforce voter registration laws and prosecute those who attempt to derail lawful elections. We can’t afford to let Soros and ACORN steal any more elected positions.
Let's not overlook Coleman. At some point, we have to admit that this man couldn't beat an Al Franken.
Here's the real Coleman....only a 64 out of 100 rating by the ACU. Coleman tried to be a moderate, and not being a Minnesotan, I can't say that's how he campaigned, but I suspect he did considering that McCain was running around the country stinking up the place with his wussy "moderateness."
How large was the ACORN syndicate in Minnesota after all?
Coleman was a great Senator. He just happened to be a victim of the George Bush backlash in the Gopher State.
Franken(stein) didn't beat Norm Coleman, George Bush did...and it had nothing to do with McCain. Coleman suffered because of Bush's 25 percent favorability rating.
Our AG refused to investigate.
COLEMAN FOR U.S. SENATE PRESS RELEASE: SENATOR NORM COLEMAN: “ANY GROUP OR ORGANIZATION ACTING IN SUPPORT OF MY CAMPAIGN SHOULD PULL DOWN NEGATIVE ATTACK ADS”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | October 10, 2008
ST. PAUL - Today, Senator Norm Coleman announced that his campaign was pulling any negative ads that his campaign is responsible for approving, and directed that every effort be made to ensure that all such ads be removed from the airwaves.
“Any ad in which I am responsible for saying, ‘My name is Norm Coleman and I approved this message,’ I have directed my campaign to begin immediately pulling down,” said Senator Norm Coleman. “And, I call upon any group, or organization that is intending to support my candidacy to do just that – support my candidacy and not attack my opponents. If these organizations wish to influence the outcome of this campaign, they can best do so by providing the people of my state with a positive reflection of my record, and my vision for the future. It’s time to end the negativity in a day when people are looking and reaching for hope and confidence.
Most think that having a new election where NEITHER of these idiots get to run would be a great idea.
Like I’ve said before, if they did the election over but this time required ID to vote, Franken would have his a$$ handed to him.
(And of all the sources out there, why Politico?! Geez...)
You’re right.
I noticed George Bush’s name on all the yard signs in Minnesota, and sure enough, it was George showed up to debate.
Norm really should have had a more active presence, shouldn’t he?
/srcsm
Lets be frank here
Dole lost North Carolina! The GOP got throttled in the last election and that sank allot of good senators here is why Coleman lost
(1) Zero-Mania: The 0ne took Minnesota by 10 points and Coleman ‘lost’ by only a few hundred many of which where ahem ‘found votes’.
(2) The Timing of the collapse: a month before election this hurt anyone remotely attached to Bush who was wrongfully singled out by the media
Yes, I’ve read that Coleman was a “moderate” Republican, which basically means a person is more Democrat than Republican. I believe a lot of true Republicans just stayed home on election day. Several years ago when I first heard that Franken might run for Minnesota Senator, I laughed—I thought who in their right mind would vote for that fool. I still can’t believe people would vote for that fool.
I guess the justices have never heard of acorn.
if they seal the deal, they are as complicit as those who helped steal this election.
Modus Operandi:
Cast enough “illegal” ballots to make the election close and cast doubt on the efficacy of the process. Let the recount chip (chads?) fall where they may (Chambliss).
ACORN is not stealing elections, they are undermining the voting process, to delegitimize it and eliminate it as we know it.
The goal is to replace it with faux-voting on candidates hand-picked by the ruling elite class (Statists).
They are wrong the USSC is the last stop for Norm Colman and hopefully he will keep fighting as long as he can. If the Dems aren’t able to get all of the left wing stuff through by Dec 2009 then they go into 2010 saying they want to raise taxes etc to fund all of this stuff and that IMHO is not a good message for re election!
same thing when Ventura won....he split everything into thirds and he got the bigger third....
if we expect PERFECT candidates, then we will always lose.....
this is why we have the Rats controlling the whole country and many states....stupid, silly selfish little voters and all those glorious conservative voters who never seem to vote...all those good Christians you know.....
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