Comments on: Coleman: Reporters’ questions — on-camera, not ‘quiet’ — cost him election

By: Richard Massey

Richard Massey — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:14:56 +0000

“Mr. Coleman. How do you respond to the notion that that American People now suspect that what you have been engaged in, here, with the Election Contest and the subsequent appeal and threat to take the matter on to the Supreme Court, is nothing but a GOP Conspiracy, involving you, members of the Republican Senate Committee and Governor Pawlenty?”
You’ve come-up considerably more than short in all the Motions and Rulings. Pawlenty has conveniently gone-along for the ride, making comments about issuing the Certificate to Franken that are contrary to what the Judges have said and Ordered. It seems like you, Pawlenty and the GOP have a good thing going. The Republican Senate Committee sent you a quarter million dollars over the Holiday Season. Did any of that money go to Governor Pawlenty? Is he being paid to keep the Minnesota Senate Seat vacant? Why would a sitting Governor, with the Nation in the grips of a historic economic collapse, not want to have his constituency and the Nation fully represented in the Senate? What kept Pawlenty from sending a Provisional Senator until your Election Contest got decided? Lastly, why isn’t the Election Contest OVER and your legal battle with the State? The Election Contest was to see who, between you and Franken, got the most votes. That Case is decided. That matter closed. Anything you want to complain about should now be “Coleman v Minnesota”, Coleman v Something other than Franken because Franken won the Election Contest you brought and the GOP bought. The Election Contest is OVER.
It’s NOT an Election Contest, anymore! It is a GOP-Funded, Un-American, Bad Faith, Civil Rights Violating, Un-Constitutional, perpetuation of a Fraud and an obvious Conspiracy to keep Al Franken tied-up in Court while Governor Pawlenty keeps the Senate Seat Vacant for the GOP Senatorial Committee who did everything but Earmark Stimulus money to pay-off all the alleged Conspirators. Nice work, Norm. Talk about disenfranchisement. Mister. When it comes to disenfranchisement … You wear the Gold … Pawlenty: Silver … and, the GOP Senate Committee: Bronze (But, they’re having theirs Gold Plated). The stench of this alleged Conspiracy is drifting out of Minnesota and all across the Nation. You’d think you guys would be embarrassed by how you are stinking-up the place. But, you’re not. You guys just laugh and high-five and see if the smoke from you taking a match to The Constitution will somehow obscure the reprehensible assault you have executed on Democracy. Shame on you!

By: EK

EK — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:43:34 +0000

Since when did the Repiglicans keep mum about ANY story against a Democrat, even a phony one, that they could toss out in front of the media?

By: Miro

Miro — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:50:48 +0000

I looked in my email archives at the little folder that said “Coleman” and scanned his reponses to my letters of concern….

Oh gawd…. Get a clue, Karl…. er, I mean Norm.

By: Alec

Alec — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:36:46 +0000

Didn’t Coleman himself file an eleventh hour lawsuit against Franken right before the election? What a terrible tactic!

By: Chris Steller

Chris Steller — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:40:47 +0000

Thank you, Eric. I’ll make the correction.

By: Eric Ferguson

Eric Ferguson — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:36:17 +0000

One minor correction: the last answer is labeled MURPHY, but that was Coleman speaking.

Good for Murphy calling him on a lie. Coleman wants to play the “liberal media” card by refusing to make a distinction between reporters making a commercial or being caught on camera just like he was. If would have just answered their questions instead of trying to run off, the commercial couldn’t have been made. Apparently he thinks politicians have a right to have potentially embarrassing questions asked privately and the answers withheld until after the election. I have lost so much respect for this man. It’s like he’s gotten wingnuttier since the election.

By: AC

AC — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:24:15 +0000

Is he honestly suggesting that if reporters have embarrassing questions, questions about possible illegal behavior, or questions that paint him in anything other than a positive light, they should be whispered quietly, off-camera, after the election? Gee, it sounds like he has something to hide.

Coleman needs to realize that the reporters asking the questions were not the problem. The problem was him jumping into a big black SUV and speeding away, ducking the questions and looking guilty as all get-out.

He made that bed, now he has to sleep in it.