Franken puts Pawlenty in a jam

[cali]

By MANU RAJU | 4/2/09 4:25 AM EDT


The legal fight between Al Franken and Norm Coleman heads to the desk of Gov. Tim Pawlenty.

The legal fight between Al Franken and Norm Coleman is headed to the desk of Gov. Tim Pawlenty — a no-win predicament for a Minnesota Republican with his eye on a White House run in 2012.

Franken won big Tuesday when a three-judge panel allowed the review of no more than 400 absentee ballots in a race he currently leads by 225 votes. Coleman’s camp says an appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court is coming; once that’s done, the dispute lands in Pawlenty’s lap.

If Franken’s ahead at that point, Pawlenty will have a choice: sign the election certificate that will allow Democrats to seat Franken in the Senate or play to the Republicans whose support he’d need in 2012 by withholding the certificate while Coleman challenges the election in the federal court system.

“The Republican Party nationally and in Minnesota is playing not just with fire, but with dynamite,” said Rep. James L. Oberstar, a Democrat and the dean of Minnesota’s congressional delegation.

Oberstar — like a lot of Democrats — says November’s election should finally be over as soon as the Minnesota Supreme Court rules.

If Pawlenty and the Republicans push it further, he says, “this thing is going to blow up in their face.”

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/20785.html

[skooooo]

1. I thought Colman had conceded???

When's Franken going to be seated?

[cali]

2. he has done the opposite of concede. he's said he'll appeal

Don't know when Franken will be seated.

[Stephanie]

7. Maybe you saw the April Fools joke at Kos?

[Ian David]

3. All we need is for Coleman's dad to be caught fucking a chick in a parking lot again. n/t

[tosh]

4. Again? Did that happen once??

:rofl:

Class acts, aren't they?

[Ian David]

5. Yes... Senator Coleman's father busted for having sex in pizzeria parking lot

Senator Coleman's father busted for having sex in pizzeria parking lot
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1760396

[TahitiNut]

12. Anchovies ... puts lead in the pencil.

:rofl:

[ieoeja]

26. I had sex in a parking lot in Minnesota once.

Lot of fun when you don't get caught.

[tosh]

32. Sure, but how old were you at the time?

[ieoeja]

34. 24 or 25. But I would still consider it at 47. n/t

[ejpoeta]

6. what does that have to do with coleman? it's not like coleman himself

caught bleeping someone in a parking lot.

[myrna minx]

8. Not Norm Coleman himself, but it's an open secret in Minnesota that Norm is a notorious womanizer.

Apple, tree.

[Cid_B]

9. Uh huh..

Would you care to comment on the Biden daughter doing blow a few days ago? Sheesh...

[WilliamPitt]

10. Which has what to do with the MN Senate race?

P.S. The guy peddling that coke claim has backed off.

You = fail.

[Cid_B]

31. The point...

which obviously blew right past you is that labeling a child because of something a parent did is ridiculous ( and visa versa ).

slow on the uptake = you

[Ian David]

15. Turns out, it was just powdered NoDoz pills. n/t

[Ian David]

14. IIRC, Norm Coleman is on the list of men who have groped women's butts in Congress. n/t

[myrna minx]

20. I don't know if he's done that, but

in my younger, svelter days, I had my own run in with then Mayor Squeezy McFeelPants. :puke: He's notorious and it matters not to him who or where he gets slap and tickle. He's disgusting.

[dflprincess]

23. EEEEEWWWWW!!!!!

You poor thing.

Supposedly he's known as Senator Grab Ass in Washington so his habits have followed him to D.C.

I was really amazed when he ran those God-awful ads with Laurie last fall and then he did the pathetic "I'm a good family man with a wonderful marriage" interview on Almanac. I kept hoping Pat Kessler on WCCO would do one of his reality checks about that :evilgrin:

[myrna minx]

27. It's amazing how he gets away with the laughable "family man" veneer.

A Kessler Reality Check would be delicious! Probably half of the women in the State have some sleazy anecdote about him.

[dflprincess]

18. Coleman's father died (last year I think) (eom)

[Ian David]

22. Oh. Then that would make it especially creepy if he's caught fucking in a parking lot. n/t

[WI_DEM]

11. It's time to get protesters in front of Pawlenty to make sure he gives MN two senators.

[sutz12]

13. It's almost worth not having that 59th seat to watch the Repubs melt down.

It's more than schadenfeude, though. There will be payback. Oh, yes, there will.

:)

[Fumesucker]

16. Payback from whom?

Democratic politicians?

Surely you jest?

[Occam Bandage]

17. From Minnesotans against the Republicans for dragging this shit out.

[dflprincess]

19. I fear the Indpendence Party may be the one that really benefits from this

Remember, thanks to them, Pawlenty has been elected governor twice with pluralities, not majoritites.

[cherish44]

21. My question is how can a cool blue state like Minnesota elect such assholes Republicans?

Bachman? Coleman? Pawlenty? What the fuck is wrong here? I'd understand if it was fucking Oklahoma but it's Minnesota

[ShortnFiery]

24. District Gerrymandering? It seems that this "trick" has been honed to an art form.

:shrug:

[myrna minx]

25. Bachmann's district leans conservative, although El Tinklenberg had a respectable

finish for that district. Pawlenty had "won" due to races between the Democratic, Independent and Republican candidate and that's exactly how Jesse Ventura won too. Both Governors won by a larger percentage of a third of the voters.

Coleman *sigh* exploited the chaos that happened after the death of our beloved Senator Wellstone. The republican noise machine hijacked the Wellstone Memorial into a tool to wail about partisanship. They made the memorial about them and it was disgusting. I'll never forgive the bastards, like Coleman who exploited our grief for political gain.

[dflprincess]

28. Tinklenberg had the endorsements of both the DFL and the Independence party

but state law only allows him to list one party on the ballot. He probably would have won the district except for that tool that filed as the Independence party candidate in the primary election (and had no contest there) and then turned the general election into a 3 way race.

I really think state law should be amended so that a candidate could list more than one party endorsement and that the parties have some actual say in who uses their name and, of course, for IRV.

[SoCalDem]

29. There's an old song that sums it up.. "People are Strange"

NY..republican governors
MA..republican governors
CT..republican governors
CA..republican governors

I could never understand how THAT happens..over and over :shrug:

[hfojvt]

33. surprisingly, (to me anyway) Minnesota is a swing state

not solid enough to be deep blue

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/83

[CRAZY_DEM]

30. Reid needs to grow some nuts and provisionally seat Franken Pawlenty will just say let the courts

handle it. Remember his April 1st promise?