The former Senator Blo-And-Go

The clock is ticking for Norm.  Even as Governor Pawlenty is grudgingly recognizing that both the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Secretary of State’s office are going to interpret State law as allowing an election certificate to be issued once the state courts are done with any and all contests (which means that taking the case to the Federal level won’t stop the cert from being signed), the specter of Nasser Kazeminy has reappeared:

The former finance chief of a Texas company controlled by Nasser Kazeminy, a close friend of former Sen. Norm Coleman, said in a deposition last week that Kazeminy ordered $100,000 in fees be paid to a Minneapolis insurance agency where Coleman’s wife was employed.

B.J. Thomas, who was chief financial officer of Deep Marine Technology Inc., said that $75,000 of that sum was paid to Hays Companies even though he saw no evidence of Deep Marine receiving any consulting services from Hays.

This is why the RNC is going to have to drop Norm, and soon.  It’s one thing to back an unwinnable election contest when there’s no downside to their delaying Al Franken’s being seated, but it’s quite another when the guy they’re using as the lever is about to become a big ol’ glowing green kryptonite boat anchor.