Coleman tells worried donors to call him but isn’t answering the phone

Norm Coleman told donors who are worried about the leak of personal and financial data from his campaign Web site to cancel their credit cards and call him with questions. A Coleman contributor in Atlanta who did just that — shelling out $16 for an expedited replacement card — tells the Minnesota Independent that no one answers the phone at the number Coleman gave.

Coleman Web site dropped promise not to store donors’ credit card data

As recently as last year, Norm Coleman promised campaign donors his Web site would not store their credit card numbers. That was then. The Coleman Web site’s “Privacy Policy” now promises only to encrypt contributors’ data “during the transfer process.”…

AP cites one man who voted for neither to say state’s tired of Franken-Coleman war

It’s apparently hard for reporters to find an ordinary voter to comment on the extraordinary struggle over Minnesota’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. The latest example: The Associated Press cited one person — who didn’t vote for either Al Franken or…

Let’s end it: Franken moves to dismiss Coleman’s election lawsuit

File this under “It Can’t Hurt to Ask”: Al Franken’s lawyers plan to request Friday that judges dismiss Norm Coleman’s lawsuit contesting the Minnesota U.S. Senate election recount that put Franken up by 225 votes.

Coleman: ‘Court’s going to have to reflect on’ do-over election

Former U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman said the judges hearing his contest of Minnesota’s statewide recount are “going to have to reflect on” whether a do-over election is needed. Meanwhile, Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele accused Al Franken of “stealing Norm Coleman’s U.S. Senate seat,” and Franken’s lawyers began to make their case in court, with witnesses whose signature mismatches were straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story.

Coleman side says it: ‘Set aside the election’

“Set aside the election.”
Those four words appear as the “most appropriate remedy,” in a letter that Norm Coleman’s lawyer, James Langdon, sent to the judges Monday in the former Minnesota senator’s election contest trial. The letter cites eight cases from other states in…

Coen Brothers make mock clean-coal ad: Something in the hometown water?

The Minnesota-bred Coen Brothers made a mock clean-coal ad for the Reality Coalition (via raw story):

Like Al Franken, Joel and Ethan Coen grew up in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. People say, wow, something in…

April Fool’s Day is Reid’s new line in the snow for seating Franken

Senate Majority Harry Reid is drawing a new line in the snow, naming a date by which he’s pledging to have Al Franken seated as Minnesota’s next senator: April Fool’s Day. Democrats will invoke the Senate’s privilege to seat…

Coleman-Franken feud could end in state Supreme Court, experts say

The Al Franken-Norm Coleman Senate contest will be decided in the Minnesota Supreme Court, according to election law experts. But other factors could possibly have the outcome decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Coleman can’t win for losing: Peek at crib sheets gets witness’ testimony stricken

Testimony from a witness for Norm Coleman was stricken from the court record today when the three judges in Minnesota’s election contest trial agreed with Al Franken’s side that Coleman lawyers should not have shared notes with her during a…