Politico teases out whether former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) will abandon his legal campaign to aid Republican filibusters and run for governor in 2010.
“This race is wide open,” said Sarah Janacek, a Republican activist in the state and editor of a More…
In April, The Minnesota Independent reported that state Supreme Court Justice Christopher Dietzen, an appointee of Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) had made two donations to former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) 2008 campaign. Dietzen did not recuse himself from the case. Instead, Dietzen said this to Coleman’s lawyers during More…
The Minnesota Independent’s Paul Demko reports:
[Republican Minnesota Gov.] Tim Pawlenty will announce whether he plans to seek a third term as governor this afternoon. The early word: he’s not running for re-election. Both WCCO (Channel 4) political reporter Pat Kessler and Minnesota Public Radio’s Tom Scheck
Today was a big day in the seemingly never-ending saga that is the 2008 Minnesota Senate race. The Minnesota Supreme Court heard former GOP Sen. Norm Coleman’s challenge of a previous decision by a three-judge panel that awarded the election to Democratic challenger Al Franken. The Coleman camp is seeking More…
Al Franken used a statement on federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court to say he expects to be seated as Minnesota’s junior senator in time for confirmation hearings that President Obama has said should happen in July. “I look forward to joining my More…
Even though things don’t look so good for former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-Minn.) bid to keep Al Franken from being seated as Minnesota’s junior senator, Coleman’s still out there trying to raise money to pay his legal bills to keep Franken in the courts and out of Washington. In his More…
… you might see your dollars sucked into a defense fund for a lawsuit that has a bit less to do with control of the Senate than the former senator’s challenges of the results of the 2008 election.
Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) has requested permission to use his
Mark Halperin is really pushing Sen. Arlen Specter’s (D-Pa.) comment that he wants the Minnesota Supreme Court to “do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner,” but in the context of The New York Times Magazine interview it comes from, it sounds an awful lot like a … More…
Just reiterating the point from my article about the U.K. press, here’s a pull-out fact from a story in The Sunday Times about how “Democrat Joker Al Franken” will cement Harry Reid’s 60-seat majority when former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) loses his lawsuits.
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Former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) filed his appeal of the Senate election contest with the Minnesota Supreme Court today, arguing that “widespread disparities” in which absentee ballots were accepted distorted the final vote tally.
“The deliberate and disparate treatment of large numbers of similarly situated voters — who had their More…
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