Coleman camp: ‘We’ll take legal action to remedy Franken’s artificial lead’

John Emerson
Comment posted January 3, 2009 @ 7:01 pm

The big stink begins now. I’m very curious as to whether the media, beyond Hannity, Limbaugh, and the WSJ, run with this. Sadly, I bet that the consensus will be that Franken’s election was “controversial” and that the process was “flawed”.

jonerik
Comment posted January 3, 2009 @ 7:11 pm

Working the refs. It’s worked with the media, the Democratic leadership in the House and Senate so why would they not think it wouldn’t work here too? Losers.

John
Comment posted January 3, 2009 @ 10:07 pm

There is a special place in hell for people who hate the results of democracy like Fritz Knaak and Tom Trimble.

Eric Ferguson
Comment posted January 3, 2009 @ 11:40 pm

Two can play the refs. We have to keep on top of media and public officials who make factually incorrect statements or repeat spin without making it clear that it’s spin. Since it looks like Al will win, his legitimacy is at stake. We also want a result so clear that’s as hard as possible for the federal courts to repeat Bush v. Gore, which is probably the only shot Coleman has left.

Phoenix Woman
Comment posted January 4, 2009 @ 4:12 pm

Remember when Norm was up by 215 and he acted as if he had a golden mandate from the people?

lazercat 2009
Comment posted January 4, 2009 @ 7:48 pm

Lazercat exclusive. Turns out Blownnob at MDE is really working for our old pals at FLS online. Where do you think the money from his site comes from. They run a astroturf strategy to the weak minded.

Here is one of Blownobs fake letters to the editor.

From: Michael B. Brodkorb Date: 2006 Sep 29 16:22 UTC Short link

This is a powerful editorial.

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State Rep. Keith Ellison, candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s Fifth
Congressional District, has a history. Some argue that attacks on Ellison’s
history are mean-spirited, racist or right-wing trash. And yet, I believe
that one’s life choices speak to character and, perhaps, predict future
choices.

My own history demonstrates why these words are difficult to write and why,
despite being a loyal Democrat, I cannot support Ellison.

First, I need to build some credibility as a Democrat. I’ve been a DFL
loyalist since the late 1950s. I’ve chaired congressional district
conventions and served as co-chair of a Minnesota state convention. I’ve
been a member of the DFL State Central Committee, served as a delegate to a
national Democratic convention (1968) and voted for Mondale and Ferraro in
the Electoral College.

I’ve dedicated some sweat and tears to the party, and I regularly supported
endorsed candidates, but not this time.
My hyperactivity in Minnesota and national politics is motivated, at least
in part, by the fact that I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, a Jew born in
Nazi Germany, with a memory of government gone wrong. I really care about
good politics and good public policy.

And I have a difficult time forgiving anti-Semites.

Keith Ellison was endorsed by the Fifth District DFL convention to be the
party’s candidate for Congress. He won a primary election - albeit by only
41 percent of the vote. He’ll almost surely win in the November election
and serve in Washington for a very long time. Yet I do not plan to vote for
Keith Ellison.

Ellison has not denied that he was allied with the anti-Semitic Louis
Farrakhan and the racist Nation of Islam. He wants to let bygones be
bygones.

In a Munich bar I met a man who chose to become a Nazi because the party
offered him a motorcycle. He didn’t mind harming Jews because the Nazis
offered something he dearly wanted. This criminal and hatemonger claims he
meant no harm. It was, he said, a youthful indiscretion.

My Munich bar mate wanted to let bygones be bygones. Shall I forgive and
forget?

Shall I forget my cousin who died in a gas chamber at age three? Shall I
forget my grandmother? My aunts and uncles? Shall I let bygones be
bygones? Never.

Ellison, as an adult, without coercion, chose to join a group of
hatemongers. And now he wants me to forgive and forget. As a congressman
he might serve for decades making decisions about themes that we cannot yet
anticipate. If he demonstrates poor judgment in the recent past, can I
trust his judgment in the future?

I could forgive some indiscretions. I could forgive his numerous unpaid
parking tickets, for which he briefly lost his driving privileges, if that
were his only indiscretion. I could forgive his problems with the state
campaign finance board for not filing financial reports, so egregious that
he received a rare fine, if that were his only indiscretion. I could
forgive his “forgetting” to pay taxes.

I could forgive much of Ellison’s history, if there were fewer
indiscretions. Under no circumstances can I forgive anti-Semitism.
Jews around the world are now in a holy period. The days between Rosh
Hashana and Yom Kippur are a time when we forgive and seek forgiveness. To
forgive Keith Ellison and to accept his apologies would be appropriate for a
Jew at this time. And yet this Jewish Refugee from Nazi Germany,
traditionally a loyal DFLer, cannot find it in his heart to forgive.

Mel Gibson also apologized and told us that he meant no harm. I wouldn’t
vote for Gibson either-even if he were an endorsed, loyal member of the
Democratic Party.

I’ve been asked why many Jews in the Fifth District support Ellison?
Perhaps it is that some Jews, born in the U.S., are more forgiving. Perhaps
they forget more easily than those of us who were witnesses. Source:
American Jewish World

You would have to be in your 80s and have white hair to be born in “Nazi Germany”, I have his picture he is in his early 30s and bald. Goofy looking too. Check it out yourself at E-democracy .org

I’m on the case and will expose the exposer for the fake he is. More to come.

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lazercat 2009
Comment posted January 4, 2009 @ 9:55 pm

“GOP Senate candidate backed by Michael Brodkorb of Minnesota Democrats Exposed last year, former Rep. Mark Kennedy, was defeated. If Lieberman’s win proves that Democratic blogs can’t make a difference in campaigns, then Kennedy’s loss surely says the same thing about GOP blogs”.–professor stuffedshirt

Let’s just add that to Blownob’s record of getting money from Bachman and Kennedy at the tune of $31,000 for consulting and blowing it. Sorry no win, Baldnob. (”I never take money”–Blownob)

Gee what can he do now? Seeing how good he is at blowing money, the GOP has signed him up as chairman. And the lobbyist revolving door continues to turn.

We need campaign reform now!

lazercat 2009
Comment posted January 4, 2009 @ 10:00 pm

Blownob exposed!

“Brodkorb, a former GOP operative in Minnesota, responded in part by reporting that the media center “is spending at least $31,500 (seven paid bloggers x $4,500) to pay liberal bloggers in Minnesota.”

“After this post,” he wrote, “we’ll see who in the liberal blogosphere is actually interested in disclosure and whose using disclosure as a way to attack the messenger because they can’t attack the message.”

– Michael Brodkorb of Minnesota Democrats Exposed. The Senate campaign of Rep. Mark Kennedy, R-Minn., has paid Brodkorb nearly $4,600 a month for “press consulting” since May, he said in a telephone interview. Brodkorb also said he received one-time payments of $5,500 each this year from GOP House candidate Michele Bachmann and the National Republican Congressional Committee. He offered press advice to Bachmann and did opposition research for the NRCC.”(why $4,500? you say, because that is the monthly rate of an average lobbist.)