Yesterday, Ramsey County elections director Joe Mansky confirmed the voters Norm Coleman brought to testify didn’t cast valid ballots. As well, Talking Points Memo catches this interesting tidbit about Peter DeMuth, who didn’t submit his absentee ballot legally: [hat tip Taylor]
Upon cross-examination by Franken attorney Kevin Hamilton, DeMuth said he was contacted by the Republican Party and told about the problem. “They asked me if I knew my absentee ballot had been rejected. I said no,” said DeMuth. “They asked me if I was a supporter of Norm Coleman, and I said yes, and they proceeded to ask me if I would like to go further.”
Let’s think about this for a moment: Over the last several days, the Coleman camp has said repeatedly that they are not cherry-picking who they’re helping out, that they don’t know who the people they’re advocating for actually supported, and for all they know they’re helping out Franken-voters.
Asking if you’re “a supporter of Norm Coleman” is part of the questioning before you’re asked to go to court to get your illegally cast ballot counted. Great, work, Team Coleman.
If only Al Gore had hired Al Franken’s lawyers.
If only Bush had hired Coleman’s lawyers.
If only Bush had had Michael Brodkorb and Ryan Flynn on his team.
snap!
One of Coleman’s lawyers worked for Bush in the Florida recount.
So that’s why they don’t care about an open and honest result….
TwoPutt - yeah.
This is sooo curious. Curious & curiouser.
Esme Murphy has Coleman on her show Sunday. He will spin & BS & use the folksy phrases
that he learned from Bush — how to make noise to fill the space & never really say anything at all.
Send her emails with questions to ask him - which he will not answer.
Jabberwocky: is the order of the day.
Did anyone hear Rachel Maddow’s broadcast Friday?. It had bits of the Bank of America phone conference.
The guest was one of the guys who started Home Depot & is a RW fruitcake, from the sounds of him. A Republican
& anti-union tirade after they got billions from the public coffers.
Makes you wonder how that bailout money is being used, doesn’t it?
Anyway the call is available as a sound file. In it, the phrase is “anyone who doesn’t send money to Coleman
should be SHOT.” Is that odd for a corporate call? Does that meet The Bank of America & Home Depot ethic?
As far as Esme is concerned, she wouldn’t ask the “tough” question anyway…she’s very similiar to Cathy W. and Erik E. in that regard. Switching gears, did anyone see Tim Walz on Almanac last night….he is sooooooo solid, he would be a shoe-in for Governor is so chose. He actually makes sense and fortunately hasn’t learned any “Norm” speak while in DC. We are very fortunate to have him representing us in Washington, and need more people like him.
The Franken campaign has certainly been more consistent in advocating that all legal ballots be counted, but didn’t they reject ANY of the IRABs that eventually increased Al’s margin from 49 votes to 225? If so, it would not be accurate to write that “the Franken team has consistently, from day one, been about counting every single legal ballot.”
I didn’t have the luxury of sitting & watching the entire process of the ballot count.
But what I have been following shows that the Franken campaign
DID in fact pull back objections to a number of ballots, etc.
Thus one should not create false equivalences.
If that part of the process was qualifying ballots in a positive direction - JP, are you saying that
the campaign should have thrown out GOOD ballots, just for good measure?
rainman - Esme is no incisive, investigative journalist.
That’s the very reason Norm is going on her show!
She probably will not ask hard questions.
If she DOES, he won’t answer him & she won’t take him to task for prattling on without making sense.
The fact remains, he IS going to on the show to spin like a top.