Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, who’s reportedly been pondering a challenge to Michael Steele as chair of the Republican National Committee, has canceled plans to attend this week’s four-day RNC confab in Kansas City. Coleman was scheduled to be at the event, but changed plans without much explanation.
The American Action Network, a “center-right” Washington, D.C.-based 501(c)(4) “social welfare organization,” is running a television ad in Tampa and the Florida panhandle targeting Gov. Charlie Crist (R, running for Senate as an independent) for changing positions on various policies. The ad features a man getting Crist’s positions tattooed on More…
In a sign that he may be giving up hope in his bid to hold onto his U.S. Senate seat, Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) has taken a consulting job with the Republican Jewish Coalition, The Hill reports.
A Coleman spokesman insists that the move is purely financial and reflects no More…
In the latest news from the never-ending saga that is the Minnesota Senate race, DFLer Al Franken is asking the Minnesota Supreme Court to force state leaders to certify his electoral victory and send him to the U.S. Senate.
Yesterday, Franken sought Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) and More…
DFLer Al Franken, concerned that no one will be sitting in Minnesota’s Senate seat as long as Republican Norm Coleman’s fingernails are hanging off of it, asks for a certificate of election. The request is denied. Embattled Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan sends me an e-mail:
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DFL Senator-apparent Al Franken today asked Minnesota’s governor and secretary of state to certify his election victory so that he can provisionally join the U.S. Senate while his opponent, former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman’s legal challenge is resolved.
At the end of the statewide recount, Franken led by 225 More…
This Benjamin Sarlin piece on right-wing delight at Al Franken’s Senate win in Minnesota is … strange.
“Al Franken is a very tempting target because he is so outrageous,” said Republican strategist Brad Blakeman. “It’s similar to Joe Biden—we hope that Al Franken is the gift that keeps on
Wow, the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial on the Minnesota recount was the screed heard ’round the world. Here’s Bill O’Reilly, the Sinestro to Al Franken’s Hal Jordan, citing the WSJ to argue that Franken “cheated” to win the recount. Here’s Joe Scarborough doing the same (and you More…
Al Franken, calling himself “the next senator from Minnesota,” said Monday afternoon he is ready to go to Washington to get to work just as soon as possible.
But Franken didn’t respond to reporters’ shouted questions about exactly when he would go to Washington and retreated up the front steps More…
The Minnesota Supreme Court issued an order late Monday morning (pdf) denying an emergency motion from the Norm Coleman campaign to stop the State Canvassing Board from certifying the vote in the statewide Senate recount. That clears the way for the canvassing board to certify this afternoon that Al More…
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