Comments on: Franken-Coleman Update, 04/15/09: Draggin’ It Out http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/ Politics for liberal newsgeeks Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:44:48 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: cinnamonape http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25886 cinnamonape Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:55:02 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25886 <p>News in Upstate New York is that Tedisco is rapidly losing ground on Murphy, as well.</p> <p><a href="http://www.politickerny.com/comment/reply/3100" rel="nofollow">http://www.politickerny.com/comment/reply/3100</a></p> <p>And this is based upon the Foreign and Military Absentee ballots, which have been fully counted in the most conservative counties (Sarasota). Many are still out in Columbia, Dutchess, Essex and Rensselaer Counties…but with a partial count these areas are bringing in Foreign/Military Absentees for Murphy at a 57% ratio to Tedisco’s 42%.</p> <p>I’d say that Tedisco’s goose is cooked. There are still many challenged ballots to count, but Tedisco (like Coleman) went wild on those…while Murphy’s challenges were far fewer and based on real legally defensible grounds. Heck, he even challenged Gilliland for submitting an absentee ballot! There were also 1200 ballots that the Democrats contended were falsely challenged…these are being opened and counted under the Judges ruling.</p> News in Upstate New York is that Tedisco is rapidly losing ground on Murphy, as well.

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And this is based upon the Foreign and Military Absentee ballots, which have been fully counted in the most conservative counties (Sarasota). Many are still out in Columbia, Dutchess, Essex and Rensselaer Counties…but with a partial count these areas are bringing in Foreign/Military Absentees for Murphy at a 57% ratio to Tedisco’s 42%.

I’d say that Tedisco’s goose is cooked. There are still many challenged ballots to count, but Tedisco (like Coleman) went wild on those…while Murphy’s challenges were far fewer and based on real legally defensible grounds. Heck, he even challenged Gilliland for submitting an absentee ballot! There were also 1200 ballots that the Democrats contended were falsely challenged…these are being opened and counted under the Judges ruling.

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25885 Phoenix Woman Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:14:12 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25885 <p><a href="http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/chamber-of-commerce-other-lobbyists-vow-to-raise-as-much-as-it-takes-to-help-norm-coleman/" rel="nofollow">And now Jane tells us</a> that The Usual Suspects of Moneyed Douchebaggery — the Chamber of Commerce, the NFIC, et cetera — are promising to raise tons of money for Norm’s legal battles.</p> <p>You know, I wish they would cough up tens of millions of dollars for Norm. I really do. Because coughing it up for <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/32265/minnesota-poll-majority-want-coleman-to-concede" rel="nofollow">something that is really starting to piss off even us normally-patient Minnesotans</a> will not only NOT make Norm Coleman a senator again, but it’s also just the perfect recipe for guaranteeing that Tim Pawlenty loses his bid to stay on as governor next year — which means that a Democrat gets to decide which of Minnesota’s congressional districts goes bye-bye after the 2010 census is done. (Hint: Michele Bachmann shouldn’t get too comfy.)</p> And now Jane tells us that The Usual Suspects of Moneyed Douchebaggery — the Chamber of Commerce, the NFIC, et cetera — are promising to raise tons of money for Norm’s legal battles.

You know, I wish they would cough up tens of millions of dollars for Norm. I really do. Because coughing it up for something that is really starting to piss off even us normally-patient Minnesotans will not only NOT make Norm Coleman a senator again, but it’s also just the perfect recipe for guaranteeing that Tim Pawlenty loses his bid to stay on as governor next year — which means that a Democrat gets to decide which of Minnesota’s congressional districts goes bye-bye after the 2010 census is done. (Hint: Michele Bachmann shouldn’t get too comfy.)

]]> By: foothillsmike http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25884 foothillsmike Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:02:10 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25884 <p>I wonder if Coleman is delaying the Kazeminy case by prolonging the appeals.</p> I wonder if Coleman is delaying the Kazeminy case by prolonging the appeals.

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25883 Phoenix Woman Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:53:21 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25883 <blockquote><p>PW, that picture almost makes me wonder if mAnn Coulter and Norma were separated at birth. Yech!</p></blockquote> <p>Heh!</p>

PW, that picture almost makes me wonder if mAnn Coulter and Norma were separated at birth. Yech!

Heh!

]]> By: Phoenix Woman http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25882 Phoenix Woman Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:52:13 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25882 <p>Here’s a new poll — <a href="http://minnesotaindependent.com/32265/minnesota-poll-majority-want-coleman-to-concede" rel="nofollow">Minnesotans are telling Norm to GIVE UP ALREADY.</a></p> Here’s a new poll — Minnesotans are telling Norm to GIVE UP ALREADY.

]]> By: lokywoky http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25881 lokywoky Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:32:09 +0000 http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/04/15/franken-coleman-update-041509-draggin-it-out/#comment-25881 <p>PW, that picture almost makes me wonder if mAnn Coulter and Norma were separated at birth. Yech!</p> <p>I’m not as sanguine as you are about whether Coleman/GOPers are dragging this out on purpose or not. A few days here or there in testimony or on short filing deadlines I don’t think makes or breaks the case for that. In fact, by filing right away on a short deadline makes it seem that they aren’t dragging things out - when in fact the whole process itself is dragging things out for no reason.</p> <p>While they may file an ‘intent to appeal’ right away, that just starts another clock ticking. They have 15 days after that to prepare their briefs, and they said they are going to ‘take their time and be careful’. That tells me they might/will take the whole 15 days for that portion.</p> <p>The Franken team will have their brief ready before Coleman’s bunch gets out of the starting blocks. All they have to do is say Rolvaag vs Anderson over and over. Ha!</p> PW, that picture almost makes me wonder if mAnn Coulter and Norma were separated at birth. Yech!

I’m not as sanguine as you are about whether Coleman/GOPers are dragging this out on purpose or not. A few days here or there in testimony or on short filing deadlines I don’t think makes or breaks the case for that. In fact, by filing right away on a short deadline makes it seem that they aren’t dragging things out – when in fact the whole process itself is dragging things out for no reason.

While they may file an ‘intent to appeal’ right away, that just starts another clock ticking. They have 15 days after that to prepare their briefs, and they said they are going to ‘take their time and be careful’. That tells me they might/will take the whole 15 days for that portion.

The Franken team will have their brief ready before Coleman’s bunch gets out of the starting blocks. All they have to do is say Rolvaag vs Anderson over and over. Ha!

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