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Fight over Minnesota Senate Seat Likely to End with Next Court Decision
Senate Republican leaders appear willing to go to the mat for former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), but it’s unclear whether Coleman wants to go to the mat for himself. The Minnesota Supreme Court is expected to rule within weeks on whether Democrat Al Franken bested Coleman in the long- contested 2008 Senate race.Minnesota High Court Rules for Franken in Senate Battle
From CBS: Franken says he's been told he'll be on Senate Commitees on Health, Judiciary, Indian Affairs and Aging. From NPR: Norm Coleman (R) has conceded the Minnesota Senate race. Al Franken (D) wins.Franken's 1st Amendment Targets Govt Contractors
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the most public tests of his political skills since taking office in July, Sen. Al Franken pushed through an amendment Tuesday that would withhold defense contracts from companies like Halliburton if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.Franken Takes on Opponents at State Fair
I'm breaking my rule on youTube (because I can :raspberry: ) because the post discusses the video and there's no point in saying Franken calmed the crowd and not letting you judge the video yourselves. Blogger Dusty Trice posted yesterday about Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) talking healthcare reform opponents away from the deep end ledge at the Minnesota State Fair: Here's what Trice wrote about the experience: "About a dozen tea party activists had staked out Sen.Acorn-Minnesota-Last Election Cycle
Katherine Kersten: Worst trouble with ACORN is at the polls Nationally, its voter registration is often fraudulent. So what about here? By KATHERINE KERSTEN, Star Tribune Minneapolis Unless you've been stuck in the Gobi Desert, you've read the headlines about the scandal at ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.Franken Stumps Sotomayor
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), the former "Saturday Night Live" comedian, has turned out to be the only member of the Senate Judiciary Committee to stump Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. In the process, he sparked the biggest laughs of the so-far dry hearing, living up to his reputation as a funnyman.What Rassmusen, Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls TELLS US
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Saturday, September 26, 2009 Few nations are as generous with their time and money as the United States, but right now Americans are a suspicious bunch. Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. Thirty-six percent (36%) are Very Angry.Minn. court rules for Franken in Senate fight
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9955MVG0&show_article=1 Minn. court rules for Franken in Senate fight ST. PAUL, Minn.Minnesota, another Washington State, Chicago style politics at its best (worst)
Republican Norm Coleman led by 725 votes on election day. But after the recounts, the democrats in Minnesota mysteriously discovered nearly a thousand votes to give Al Franken a lead in the US Senate race over Coleman. Today Minnesota state officials are going to declare Al Franken the winner.DENIED: Bigotry of the Obamatrons
DENIED: Bigotry of the Obamatrons by Charles Winecoff Recently, at the office (a place I sometimes affectionately refer to as Obama Central), I made the mistake of printing out a Washington Post editorial that questioned the foreign policy expertise of our new Commander-in-Chief. By the time I got to the printer to pick it up, someone else had already seen it - and stamped “DENIED” across the top of the page in red ink. Next to that was scrawled, “RIGHT WINGER GO HOME.” The first thing that went through my mind was: cross burnings.
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