MORE ON HARRY REID’s COMMENTS TODAY >> At about the same time Wednesday that Coleman was striking an optimistic tone about winning the election, Harry Reid was chiding the Republican senator for not conceding the race to Franken. “There is no way that Coleman can win this,” Reid said. “The numbers just aren’t there. He should concede. There (are) a lot of people who did the same thing and it’s better for them. Polls in Minnesota show that about half the people are upset at Franken, I’m sorry, I mean upset at Coleman asking for this additional work.” A Reid spokesman said that at some point he may attempt to seat Franken, but cautioned that no decision has been made yet. Coleman predicted that Reid would not dare to seat Franken until legal proceedings are resolved, because he has not been presented with a signed election certificate by state officials. For weeks, Reid would not acknowledge Roland Burris as the junior senator from Illinois because his certificate lacked the secretary of state’s signature. “I am quite confident that the United States Senate will not seat someone without a signed election certificate,” he said. “And I believe that will be handled in a bipartisan way.”
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Senate Democrats move toward seating Franken
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
(01-21) 16:33 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) —It’s no joke: Senate Democrats are moving toward letting comedian Al Franken join the chamber while Republican Norm Coleman’s election lawsuit is pending.
“We’re going to try to seat Al Franken,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters on Wednesday, a few hours before he posed with Franken for photos just off the Senate floor...
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