Comments on: Of wives and men: Comparing Coleman and Blagojevich charges

By: Chris Steller

Chris Steller — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:05:44 +0000

lazercat, thanks for the pipress excerpt that reminded me that not both DMT lawsuits were filed in Texas. Correction made in post.

By: Lazercat

Lazercat — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:14:35 +0000

Here is where it gets good. From the Pioneer Press

Federal investigators are looking into allegations that a longtime friend and benefactor tried to steer money to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, the Pioneer Press has learned.

Agents with the FBI have talked to or made efforts to talk to people in Texas familiar with the allegations, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Houston is where the first of two lawsuits was filed alleging Nasser Kazeminy, a Bloomington financier, tried to steer $100,000 to Coleman via his wife’s Minneapolis employer. The second suit, filed in Delaware, alleges Kazeminy initially tried to get money directly to the senator.

Both Coleman and Kazeminy have denied any wrongdoing, and Coleman last month said he welcomes an investigation.

By: Linda G

Linda G — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:48:48 +0000

JUST COUNT OUR ABSENTEE BALLOTS. The voters spoke. Many ballots were rejected wrongly- it’s not only the “papers” showing favoritism! What about the 5 counties that are blowing off the SOS?? How DARE they decide whose vote counts, and whose doesn’t.

Pro-Coleman decisions are endorsement for disenfranchising the voters.
JUST COUNT ALL OF THE BALLOTS- each vote matters.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:20:48 +0000

That right wing rag known as the Strib is definately in the corner of Coleman. Alwas has been, and always will be. Why can’t we get an impartial paper in this town? (Apologies to MN Independant, but you are not a paper in the way the right wing rag is – I mean dead tree type paper.)

By: Mark M

Mark M — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:19:01 +0000

I’ve been telling everyone I know to boycott the Strib. since they went off the right-wing deep end.

By: Strib Watcher

Strib Watcher — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:46:25 +0000

Interesting that the Pi Press broke the story of the FBI investigation, it’s in Citi Pages, it’s been picked up by the national media and still not a peep from the Avista owned Strib. Is it because they don’t have any reporters left or just more evidence of their pro-Coleman bias?

By: icecycle

icecycle — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:11:24 +0000

“they are on a wholly different order.”

“The dissimilarity, however, ends there.”

Which came first, the tortured logic, or the tortured writing?

By: keith Kuckler

keith Kuckler — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:41:46 +0000

if it walks like a duck,and talks like a duck………….