Updated Senate Phone List Erases Norm Coleman

— By Jonathan Stein

| Thu Jan. 8, 2009 8:09 AM PST

The Democratic Senate leadership is doing everything it can to pretend that Norm Coleman doesn't exist. It shut down his Capitol Hill office earlier this week, and a Senate source provides Mother Jones with a copy of an updated phone list (pdf) sent out Thursday by the Sargeant-at-Arms that makes no mention of the mostly-defeated Coleman.

Coleman's term officially expired over the weekend, and Al Franken hasn't been sworn in, meaning that Minnesota has only one senator on the list.

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Submitted by elaygee (not verified) on Thu Jan. 8, 2009 10:18 AM PST.

There is no 2nd Senator from Minnesota as no one was sworn in to that position. Naming either Franken or Coleman would have been presumtuous.

Submitted by ryan (not verified) on Thu Jan. 8, 2009 12:52 PM PST.

The goal apparently being to provide a phone list for current senators. Shocking indeed.

Submitted by ryan (not verified) on Thu Jan. 8, 2009 12:54 PM PST.

Also notice the big empty spaces for MINNESOTA and ILLINOIS. I think this means they're calling it 'empty'. (And look at all the people who are still on there - Joe, Hillary, Ken...)

Submitted by Sandy (not verified) on Thu Jan. 8, 2009 9:45 PM PST.

I think it's over and Franken won.
Stalling seems to be the most popular sport practiced by the GOP--it gave us Bush in 2000 by preventing all the ballots from being counted.

I hope this is a hint the Republicans are ready to throw in the towel--Coleman needs to step down before his scandals catch up with him.

Submitted by Ryan (not verified) on Fri Jan. 9, 2009 6:33 AM PST.

Is this really "the Democratic Senate leadership [...] doing everything it can to pretend that Norm Coleman doesn't exist"? Neither him nor Franken have been sworn in yet, so why would either appear on the list? Come on...

Submitted by David Smith (not verified) on Mon Jan. 19, 2009 11:46 AM PST.

I don't see Gordon Smith's, Ted Stevens', or John Sununu's name in the list either! It must be a new Congress and Norm Coleman isn't in the 111th Congress ("yet").

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