Sweethearts’ murmurs give way to spat over who made senate trial so boring
By Chris Steller |
02.09.09 | 12:24 pm
At first Valentine’s Day seemed to have come early as Week 3 began in Minnesota’s election contest trial between Al Franken and Norm Coleman. The former senator’s lawyers started the day by calling two husband-and-wife pairs of absentee voters to the witness stand whose ballots had been rejected for improper witnessing. Then Franken attorney David Lillehaug rose to make a major objection: Coleman’s side has not answered the Franken side’s questions about the evidence they’re going to present, as the court has ordered them to do.
