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Video: Coleman ad misrepresents Wellstone anecdote as more ‘angry’ Al
Al Franken’s a raving lunatic, right? That’s what Norm Coleman’s supporters would have you believe, but an interesting new Franken video calls out Coleman for a pretty egregious misrepresentation. The story, well told (and told first) by MNPublius, shows how two Coleman ads by the National Republican Senatorial Committee used a snippet of a crazed-looking [...]
Coleman ad snafu could cost his campaign serious money (but probably won’t)
Yesterday Aaron Landry at MnPublius noticed that Norm Coleman’s latest campaign ad, a testimonial from former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Sandy Keith, violates a law that requires a four-second authorization tag at the end of campaign commercials. Break it and you’re supposed to forfeit your statutory entitlement to the deeply discounted rates that politicians [...]









