As an example, Hamilton showed two photocopies of a rejected absentee ballot envelope, one of which he said was the unaltered original, and the other taken from Coleman’s legal filings in his attempts to get more of the rejected ballots opened. The Coleman copy was missing the section in which a local election official explained why it was rejected.
We are without words. Coleman’s attorney “speculated that there may have been a photocopying problem.” Sparse details in the rest of the TPM piece on this, but we’ll see if we can learn anything further.
TPM’s Eric Kleefeld also reports, in related articles, that former Sen. Norm Coleman’s attorney was “openly heckled” by one of the judges on the three-judge panel — this one, a Republican appointee.
And, in other news from Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race election contest, apparent-winner Al Franken’s bid to have the entire case dismissed was denied yesterday, while Coleman’s hopes of receiving permission from the three-judge panel to inspect all ballots and voter rolls (in their search for votes, and hopes of delaying the formal beginning of the trial next Monday) was similarly denied.
Also, Coleman may be getting used to the fact that it looks like he’s not going back to D.C.. He’s accepted a “temporary” job as “a strategic adviser to the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC).”
By the way, Franken seems constantly referred to as “comedian Al Franken” in mainstream news reports. Setting aside that he was most-frequently a radio talk show host for years, in addition to the author of several books, we can’t recall any other candidate for office so consistently being referred to by their former occupation. Not that there’s a bias in the corporate media in this matter or anything, just ask strategic adviser Norm Coleman.
UPDATE 1/26/09: The court tosses Coleman’s “doctored evidence” on the first official day of the trial. Details now here…
Jesse Ventura
Why do you hire a guy as your strategic advisor when the only reason he is available is because his last strategy failed?
If he falsified evidence, isn’t that a federal criminal offense?
Morgan –
Touche.
Dennis –
Don’t know if it’d be federal or not, but sounds like a crime to me. Certainly worthy of sanctions if that’s what they really did.
When will the judges realize that all Coleman and the Republicans want is to delay Al from taking his seat…. about six years of delay if they can pull it off.
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This is more evidence that joker Al Franken is stealing the election. If that joker were not stealing the election, Coleman wouldn’t have to doctor evidence.
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The more responsible MSM propaganda vendors refer to him as comedian Al Franken, but I have seen joker Al Franken a lot.
In fairness they should refer to used car salesman Norm Coleman, rather than Sen. Norm Coleman.
I suggest we start calling him crooked lobbyist Norm Coleman.
Former actor and Republic icon Ronaly Raygun. Never can get the spelling right so just made up my own.