"Senator Franken": Getting Closer
| Mon Jan. 5, 2009 4:39 AM PST
Here's CNN:
A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, state officials told CNN Sunday....
The canvassing board on Monday will say a recount determined Franken won by 225 votes, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN.
The Coleman campaign is expected to file a legal challenge, alleging that about 650 absentee ballots, many from pro-Coleman areas, were improperly rejected in the course of the recount. Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats have declared Franken the winner, but Republican senators have promised they will filibuster to keep Franken from being seated while legal challenges are still outstanding. It appears "Senator Franken" could be seated in January, February, or even March.
Update: What's the takeaway? We will soon have a senator who once did things like this.
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Submitted by Eric Ferguson (not verified) on Mon Jan. 5, 2009 11:30 AM PST.
In a statement, Coleman's lawyer Fritz Knaak said, "The fact that the Franken campaign now rejects the notion of every valid vote being counted?"
Knaak has to know damn well that he's lying. Franken has said consistently all along he wanted every wrongly rejected ballot counted, and Coleman opposed this, and then rejected Franken's offer to have neither exercise their veto power. He's just hoping the public doesn't know, and that conservative media will repeat the claim like it's fact.
Submitted by Eric Ferguson (not verified) on Mon Jan. 5, 2009 11:30 AM PST.
In a statement, Coleman's lawyer Fritz Knaak said, "The fact that the Franken campaign now rejects the notion of every valid vote being countedÂ…"
Knaak has to know damn well that he's lying. Franken has said consistently all along he wanted every wrongly rejected ballot counted, and Coleman opposed this, and then rejected Franken's offer to have neither exercise their veto power. He's just hoping the public doesn't know, and that conservative media will repeat the claim like it's fact.
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