Mark Drake

When Al Franken started putting “Sen.-elect,” before his name, former Sen. Norm Coleman’s spokesman Mark Drake responded by calling it a “joke,” and staffer Luke Friedrich followed it up by claiming Franken was merely “pretending to be a Senator before we know who really won.” I’m curious, then, what the pair have to say about [...]

Sen. Norm Coleman is filing a lawsuit today with the Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings charging Al Franken’s campaign with deliberately lying about his record and residence in Washington. “Sen. Coleman is being falsely attacked,” spokesman Mark Drake said at a press conference this morning. “These are flat out falsehoods. This goes beyond the typical tit for tat you see in campaigns.”

Al Franken stated today that he would have voted against the $700 billion bailout package passed by the Senate last night and harshly criticized the legislation. “I hope nobody in Washington felt any pride or sense of accomplishment,” the Democratic Senate candidate said at a press conference at the Capitol. “Because this bill didn’t fix an economy that isn’t working for middle-class families.”