This C-Span show was my first encounter with Al Franken. I took a liking to him right away.
Media progressives owe Franken almost as much as political progressives owe Howard Dean. It is good that he will finally get his seat in the Senate. Franken's win should please every progressive out there.
3 judge panel declares Franken winner
By: Manu Raju
April 13, 2009 08:00 PM EST
A Minnesota court ruled Monday night that Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican Norm Coleman and should be granted the election certificate that will allow him to take his seat in the U.S. Senate.
The Coleman camp immediately vowed to appeal.
"More than 4,400 Minnesotans remain wrongly disenfranchised by this court's order," Coleman attorney Ben Ginsberg said in a statement. "By its own terms, the court has included votes it has found to be 'illegal' in the contest to remain included in the final counts from Election Day, and equal protection and due process concerns have been ignored. For these reasons, we must appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court so that no voter is left behind."
The three-judge panel rejected Coleman's equal-protection arguments, saying that "errors or irregularities identified by contestants in the general election do not violate the mandates of equal protection."
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Does Reid plan to seat him?
Does Reid plan to seat him? And it gets me to no end that Coleman said Franken should drop out back when it looked like Coleman had won, but now that Franken's won, Coleman just can't stop.
Reid said he was waiting for
Reid said he was waiting for the issue to be settled by the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Is it just me, or is Reid a
Is it just me, or is Reid a bit of a pushover?
Reid makes me have no confidence in Dems
If they had put in half the fight to SEAT Franken, as they have been to try and get Burris OUT, then maybe I'd have more respect for the man.
I still get a chuckle at the thought of Al Franken being a member of the United States Senate.