Coleman’s individual donations dropped with trial’s start

Like a plane from Washington, D.C., descending into Minnesota through iffy Midwestern weather, former Sen. Norm Coleman’s financial support from individual donors took a long, bumpy decline. A week-by-week analysis of new Federal Elections Commission reports shows that receipts from individuals reached a high point around the time Coleman’s election-contest trial began Jan. 26, then trended downward through his concession on the last day of June.