After a 7-month court battle, the Minnesota Supreme Court today ruled that Democrat (and Jew) Al Franken has won the Minnesota Senate seat formerly occupied by Republican (and fellow MOT) Norm Coleman. Read about it here. Both Franken’s and Coleman’s camps said they would hold press conferences later in the day.
Having had little success in the courts in his efforts to regain his Minnesota Senate seat, Republican Norm Coleman is seeking relief from a higher power. In a recent interview with the New York Times, Coleman said that he had been praying every morning with tefillin. “I bind myself every morning,” Coleman told The Times….
Minnesota residents might be eager to move past Al Franken and Norm Coleman’s never-ending Jew vs. Jew face-off for a United States Senate seat, but a minor league St. Paul baseball team is ensuring that the race will be preserved for history in a most distinguished way. A two-faced bobblehead doll, featuring mini replicas of…
A week after the polls closed, there’s no end in sight for the election fight between Norm Coleman and Al Franken for Minnesota’s Jewish Senate seat. As Politico reports, Coleman’s lead now stands at a meager 206 votes out of more than 2.4 million ballots cast. That’s a difference of 41.99 percent of the vote…
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg has built “a solid reputation delivering federal funds to New Jersey for mass transit, beach replenishment and road projects” over four decades in the Senate, but the Philadelphia Inquirer calls former Congressman Dick Zimmer “a viable alternative.” The Inky threw its support and endorsement in the New Jersey Senate election behind…
Minnesota Senate hopeful Al Franken is the luckiest kid in the world because: A. He outraised Republican incumbent Norm Coleman during the second quarter of 2007. B. He’s got a ton of grassroots supporters sending him in small donations from around the country – donors he can go back to again and again. C. He’s…
Check out this open letter to Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman from rival Al Franken …
Al Franken — or whoever becomes the eventual Democratic nominee for Senate in Minnesota — will likely want a helping hand from freshman Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who just won a coveted leadership spot in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Meanwhile, that Democratic field just gained one more candidate — tax lawyer Bob Olsen.
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