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...fast. Another pesky Minnesota state law does not allow the secretary of state to issue a certificate (granting formal victory) until all lawsuits have run their course. Senator Coleman has filed several lawsuits, the most recent of which actually resulted in increasing Franken??s lead to 315 votes. Now that the lower court has declared in favor of Franken, Coleman is going to the state Supreme Court, and if that fails, he may continue to the federal court system...
...triumphantly declared “Yesterday the voters spoke, We prevailed.” He then cast doubt on whether a recount would be worth the time and tax dollars, going so far as to say he would “step back” if he were in Franken??s position. Coleman’s current lawsuit contesting the election results now reveals the hollowness of his previous rhetoric. Even supposing that Coleman’s contentions are legitimate, he should have watched his mouth before or stuck to his guns and accepted the results...
Well known for his political activism and spats with conservative personalities Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, Franken??s Midwest Values political action committee raised over $1 million by the end of 2006, according to The Washington Post...
During his college years, Franken??who would later become one of the two founding writers for Saturday Night Live—was famously rejected from the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...
...group of about 350 attendees at the Charles Hotel, Franken promoted his newest book “The Truth (With Jokes).” While still filled with his traditional political humor, the book is more serious than his previous publications, which at times was reflected in Franken??s speech. Reading aloud from a chapter with a passage about his father’s death, Franken choked up and needed a few moments to regain composure. But he was able to laugh it off. “I cry at a good McDonald’s commercial...