Articles in the Al Franken Category
Al Franken, Election 2010, Election 2012 »
It’s no doubt he stole it, but neverthelessthe news, expected as it was.
“Republican Norm Coleman has conceded to Democrat Al Franken in the Minnesota Senate race, ending one of the longest Senate races in American history and clearing the way for Democrats to hold a 60-seat supermajority in the Senate.
Coleman’s concession, given from the front of his St. Paul home, came just a few hours after the Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled Franken the winner of last November’s Senate race. In a 5-0 decision, the court upheld a …
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Enough is enough. Having examined (by invite) some of the Coleman campaign challenges to Al Franken’s win it is clear that much is in disorder.
1. The Minnesota Supreme Court acted inappropriately in not allowing the 654 potentially valid absentee votes from being counted. That alone is an outrage and the court’s explanation – that it was beyond the purview of an administrative recount – is not acceptable, and in fact a near case of jurist malfeasance.
2. Those 150 ballots from Democatic-leaning areas that the Coleman campaign claims …
Al Franken, News »
You can now retire the “Bush stole the 2000 election” nonsense. As the WSJ outlines precisely, Al Franken and his gang of partisan thugs has stolen the senatorial election in Minnesota, in ways hitherto unimagined.
“Strange things keep happening in Minnesota, where the disputed recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken may be nearing a dubious outcome. Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.
[Review & Outlook] AP
Mr. Franken …
