Comments on: Coleman attorney again promises appeal to MN Supreme Court

By: Johnnie

Johnnie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:54:59 +0000

Jesse,
You say the court appeals must continue because “so much unneccessary fraud is rampant.” Does that mean there is such a thing as “necessary fraud”?

By: Ed Bradly

Ed Bradly — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:54:38 +0000

I watched the trial from the opening gavel to closing arguments and witnessed a completely transparent legal process. The coverage of the trial also had a live blogging component and election law legal professionals and law clerks (from around the world) shared their opinions on the blog while court was in session. (2747 bloggers posting on the day of Closing Arguments) The Three Judge Panel was extremely fair and in some cases it was more than patient with the Coleman legal team. The legal team representing Al had extensive election law expertise and it was quite obvious during the trial. Norm on the other hand hired family friend Joe Friedberg, a very competent criminal lawyer with no election law expertise. Joe admitted he had no election law expertise at the end of the trial. Coleman’s legal PR mouthpiece was Ben Ginsberg. Ben represented GW and the Swiftboat group in the 2000 elections. Ben was constantly bashing the Minnesota election process and the three judge panel. Postings on the live blog by election law legal professionals identified mistakes made by the Coleman legal team. At the end of the Closing Arguments the consensus of the blog participants was that Norm’s legal team failed to make their case. The moral of this story is don’t hire a podiatrist to perform brain surgery.

By: Keith Kuckler

Keith Kuckler — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:35:00 +0000

What Coleman and his lawyers are doing with their scorched earth attack on the Minnesota election system is going to have nasty repercussions. Their attempt to throw the legitimacy of the system in doubt will result in tainting every election from here on. We can only hope that the Minnesota Supreme court will throw out his appeal with a unamious verdict, and, hopefully chastise Coleman and his attorneys in the process of resolving this election. By his cynical atempt to delay the seating of another Democratic senator, Coleman will show what a lot of us have thought all along, he is nothing but a political hack, willing to do anything to stay in office.

By: Karen Lee

Karen Lee — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:18:15 +0000

A short time will TELL whether Coleman is playing US –or not!
Now that the judges have ruled according to Minnesota LAW, Coleman is CLAIMING he is NOT involved in any GOP attempt to DELAY seating a democratic SENATOR. Coleman alleges this is about counting ALL THE VOTES -not political party posturing. (NICE, if it were TRUE).
THE DETERMINATION of his assertion can easily be fore-told DEPENDING on the LENGTH of time it takes for HIS MOTION to the MINNESOTA SUPREMES to be filed.
IF he (*his legal cabal) DRAGS ITS FEET and DELAYS their submission till the VERY LAST MOMENT …
IF THEY take THE FULL 10-DAYS [allowed by law to FILE their APPEAL] … WE WILL KNOW FOR CERTAIN that THIS has ALL been just another rotten GOP political scam.
The truth will be: the LENGTH of time before their appeal IS FILED.
TICK TOCK! TICK TOCK!
Once the truth of this fiasco is (finally) REVEALED, what’s LEFT of the GOP can slink back into oblivion — having been shown [YET AGAIN] that THE GOP EMPEROR has NO CLOTHES.
A fitting end … should it take the full ten days for Coleman’s cabal to file!
SIGNED: A doubting (former lifelong registered & voting REPUBLICAN) hoping to be proved wrong.

By: EK

EK — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:30:48 +0000

Jesse, what proof do you have of fraud? The same question was asked of Coleman. He had several months to prove his case and he failed. If you want the Courts to rescue your candidate, you have to face the fact that the Court system requires the plaintiff to prove his or her case.

As regards honesty, how “honest” was it of the Coleman camp to air a television commercial portraying Franken as “angry” that used footage of Franken telling an anecdote at a memorial service?

By: Michael H

Michael H — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:12:09 +0000

Easy there Tiger. When troubleshooting car problems, it is best not to “kick open the hood.”

By: Bredan

Bredan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:21:24 +0000

As an out of stater looking in, Coleman has behaved terribly and Franken deserves to be certified as Senator. Of course Coleman will appeal. He knows he will lose, but he no longer cares about the campaign he already lost. Coleman will appeal for absolutely no other reason than to delay delay delay the seating of Franken so that the Democrats won’t have one more vote on their side.

You heard it here first, folks: Coleman will appeal to the MN Supreme Court and THEN AFTER THAT he will bring a Federal case so he can have two bites at the apple in which to lose because he will do anything anything anything to delay delay delay to keep one more Democrat out of office.

Despicable, but typical Republican shenanigans.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:04:29 +0000

This is typical RNC BS, screw the country just keep sticken it to the other party, Thanks Coleman, maybe you should find a more tyranical country where the people expect to get screwed all the time. This is not the behavior of a proud American. You’re acting like a spoiled child.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:36:18 +0000

Of course if legislation came up to permanently correct these voting problems, Republicans would hypocritically shoot it down. They only decry voting discrepancies when they’re on the losing side, not that it really made a difference in this case. Coleman would rather flush taxpayer money down the toilet over his hurt ego than come to grips with the fact that he lost a race he shouldn’t have.

By: jesse Gaskell

jesse Gaskell — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:05:22 +0000

This must take place as so much unneccessary fraud is rampant.

Ginsburg ,must repeal to the Supreme Courts,This is not just

politiical ,it’s against our honor and moral system.

HONESTY/ must prevail.

Sincerely Jesse Gaskell Ole WW2 Vet