by Sarah Janecek
Published: October 20, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Kent Kaiser, Mark Rtichie, Mary Kiffmeyer, Mitch Pearlstein
The Center of the American Experiment is out with a new report, "No Longer a National Model: Fifteen Recommendations for Fixing Minnesota Election Law and Practice."
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: July 16, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Mark Ritchie, Michael Brodkorb, Minnesota Republican Party, Tony Sutton
The Minnesota Republican Party today unveiled a radio advertisement that takes aim at the performance of Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a DFLer who plans to seek re-election in 2010. The launching of the ads was specifically timed to coincide with a meeting in Minneapolis of the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National [...]
by Staff
Published: July 1, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Al Franken, Dean Barkley, Minnesota Data Practices Act, Norm Coleman
PIM was asked by the Washington Post to participate in a online question-and-answer session this morning about the Minnesota’s U.S. Senate election, the recount, DFL U.S. Senator-elect Al Franken, the absentee ballots, and many other subjects. Publisher Sarah Janecek (with help from PIM Web Editor Dan Feidt) fielded 22 questions in about an hour this [...]
by Staff
Published: June 30, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Al Franken, Norm Coleman
[Note: Please tune into a special WashingtonPost.com online Q&A with Politics in Minnesota at 10 a.m. Wednesday (Central time).] Sen.-elect Al Franken and his wife, Franni, greeted their supporters and the press in front of his Elliot Park condo; coffee, cookies and brownies were in the offing at the end of this epic campaign trail. As [...]
by Sarah Janecek
Published: June 30, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Al Franken, Norm Coleman
I always thought Norm Coleman’s best shot at invalidating the State Canvassing Board ruling declaring Al Franken the winner was a violation of the Constitution’s equal protection clause. Applied to the Franken-Coleman case, that meant that absentee ballots had to counted — or not counted — exactly the same in each vote-tabulating jurisdiction.Coleman, of course, argued [...]
by Staff
Published: June 30, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Al Franken, Norm Coleman
[Note: Please tune into a special WashingtonPost.com online Q&A with Politics in Minnesota at 10 a.m. Wednesday (Central time).] Sen.-elect Al Franken and his wife, Franni, greeted their supporters and the press in front of his Elliot Park condo; coffee, cookies and brownies were in the offing at the end of this epic campaign trail. As [...]
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: May 19, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Al Franken, CREW, Nasser Kazeminy, Norm Coleman
A Washington-based watchdog group filed a lettertoday with the Federal Election Commission, opposing Norm Coleman’s request to use campaign funds to pay for personal legal expenses. Last week, Republican Coleman
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: April 22, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Al Franken, Norm Coleman
Almost 7,500 people have signed on online petition encouraging Republican Norm Coleman to give up his fight to regain his U.S. Senate seat, and thousands more have joined a "Give It Up, Norm" group on Facebook and viewed a video posted by the Minnesota DFL Party. DFL Chair Brian Melendez says the party has posted a new video, which [...]
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: April 22, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Al Franken, Norm Coleman
Almost 7,500 people have signed on online petition encouraging Republican Norm Coleman to give up his fight to regain his U.S. Senate seat, and thousands more have joined a "Give It Up, Norm" group on Facebook and viewed a video posted by the Minnesota DFL Party. DFL Chair Brian Melendez says the party has posted a new video, which [...]
by Betsy Sundquist
Published: April 14, 2009
Tags: 2008 U.S. Senate recount, Al Franken, Hardball, Pat Buchanan
The Senate’s apparently much too stodgy a place for the likes of Al Franken. Perpetually grumpy conservative pol Pat Buchanan declared this afternoon on MSNBC’s "Hardball with Chris Matthews" that that august body is no place for a "wiseacre" like Franken. As my sister Jennifer says whenever I say something that makes me sound eight years older [...]
