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(53,401 posts)I watched your interview on CNN after Franken's speech. You stated in it that you were opposed to having ethics hearings since they would just tramatise the victims. So my question to you is this, after how many accusations do we get to summarily overturn elections? Is it one, two, three, four, I know it is eight or less but what is the exact number?
I live in a state, NC, that has one party which has repeatedly tried to, often with success, overturn election results that it doesn't like. They lost the Wake County school board and board of Commissioner's races so they redrew the lines. They didn't like the results of Asheville's elections so they redrew those lines. Greensboro, same thing. The lost a governor's race so they took powers away from the governor. They feared, correctly, losing a supreme court race so they tried to change how that election was run. I don't like it when they do it, and I don't like it when you do it. MN had an election. Franken won it, handedly. I had no problem with there being an ethics investigation and after that I might have supported expelling him from the Senate. But I don't think the will of over a million MN voters should have been summarily dismissed because of eight, as of yet, unproven, accusations.