Franken joins with California’s Boxer for fundraising effort

Al Franken and Sen. Barbara Boxer (WDCpix)

With his race for U.S. Senate still likely a long way from being resolved, Al Franken continues fundraising — but this time he’s got a partner. He’s joining forces with California Sen. Barbara Boxer to form a fundraising committee that’ll fund his ongoing Senate contest battle and her 2010 re-election bid, CQ Politics reports.

Franken spokesperson Jess McIntosh says Boxer is a strong Franken supporter and confirms there’ll be a July fundraiser for the duo.

The next step in the still-undecided election takes place next Monday, when oral arguments in former Sen. Norm Coleman’s appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court are heard. Both Coleman and Franken have stated they hope to be seated in time to officially weigh in on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court, but if Coleman loses in the state’s high court, the dispute may end up before the same court Sotomayor aspires to.

But the Rochester Post-Bulletin’s Chris Miksanek imagines it dragging on even longer. In his review of the film “Terminator Salvation,” he predicts what life will be like in the year 2018:

Skynet runs amok, California passes a proposition allowing cyborgs to marry, and Norm Coleman files another appeal after 400 ballots are found inside an abandoned ATM machine in Polk County.