Al Franken, rejected
State Supreme Court ruling just handed down. Maybe Franken will march onto Washington, Burris-style?
The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected Democrat Al Franken’s petition for an election certificate that would put him in the U.S. Senate without waiting for a lawsuit to be resolved.
Franken is ahead of Republican Norm Coleman by 225 votes. Coleman’s ongoing lawsuit argues some uncounted absentee ballots were wrongly rejected.Franken sued to force Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Secretary of State Mark Ritchie to sign an election certificate. Franken argued that federal law required it.
But the state Supreme Court disagreed. In their ruling Friday, the justices said states aren’t required to issue such certificates by the date that Congress convenes.
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What do you know, Al Franken made me laugh.
OH poor baby…
Michelle check you tags on this threat.
Please God, don’t let Al Franken happen to my state!! We really are good people, just a bit misguided at the moment. We don’t deserve this!! I have lived here all my life, but this could send me over the edge. I am retired…no longer tied to a job. Maybe it is time to move to a warmer climate.
How many millions of dollars have been wasted on this because of some silly law that mandates a recount?
Unless compelling evidence of fraud is to a presented to an electoral commission, NO RECOUNTS.
In that picture, this lame clown looks like a cross between The Joker and a leprechaun.
Yeah, I know, a comment on his appearance…and during Lent!
Must ask for extra forgiveness when I next pray….
happyscrapper, on this you and I can agree. I can’t believe that Franken was elected. (Or, depending on the resolution of this, so near to being elected.) The guy’s a doofus and a hack, and has no place in Congress.
Harry Reid needs Franken in D.C. …
Uhhhh….Uhhhhh…..Uhhh
do mean he belongs in the Whitehouse?
ICK
My Friday laugh of the day. Thanks Michelle. I really feel sorry for MN that this guy might have been (hope not) their senator. Acutally his clown would fit right in with the dc bunch.
L
Why not? The rest of government is turning into a not so funny joke. Why should this be any different?
Al- you’re not good enough, you’re not smart enough, and doggone it, a little more than 50% of the people don’t like you.
Al Franken, reject
ed.Fixed.
*In the D.C. version of “Send in the Clowns”, what harm will one more do, since the 3-ring circus has already come to town with the 3 ringmasters(P-BO, Nazi Pelosi, and Harry Reid)
He wasn’t. He’s trying to “Gore” the “will of the people”.
BWAHAHAHAHAH –
I knew I couldn’t get one full sentence of libdrivel out without laughing.
In English: He stole the damn election and got caught.
No matter what your personal political persuasion may be, Al Franken is the last person to be let near the levers of power anywhere anytime. He’s a few pancakes short of a stack and a total loser. As an actor he sucks. As a comedian he sucks. As a politician he would not only suck but also cause tremendous damage.
You might want to re-read that. A doofus and a hack having no place in Congress? To me that seems to be where they congregate.
LOL Dr Hook
There would be one good thing to come out of Franken winning the election. He would be in DC and not Minnesota. The air would start smelling oh, so much sweeter. The man stinks worse than an Iowa pig farm.
Considering the ridiculous ballots that got Franken to the lead (and the clearly Coleman marked ones that he managed to get tossed out), he deserves what he gets. Hopefully Coleman will get his ballots counted.
Like every liberal wacko says…COUNT EVERY VOTE.
In their case, make sure to NOT count every vote for Coleman.
That foo ain’t done. They figure, ‘We ain’t finished countin’ ’til the numbers are right. It takes a stake of holly and a silver bullet.
Come on down to Oklahoma. Our senators are Tom Coburn and James Inhofe!
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good. The resistance is here; the resistance is now. RESIST!!!!!!!!!!!
ECS
My husband and I were in Okahoma last year, just travelling through, but it looks like a lovely place to live. Is it true that the corn grows as high as an elephant’s eye? And is there really a bright golden haze on the meadow? If so, I will consider it! Yes, that was corny, but that’s me!
You apparently did not notice the other smell coming from that Iowa pig farm…. the smell of money.
We’ll take the smell.
Franken’s placement into the Senate would serve as perfect testament to the systemic idiocy and ignorance of the American electorate.
5 decades of Ted-Kennedy public-school dumb-downed liberalism has brought the nation to this point, and only a true threat *might* wake the public up.
Where’s bin Laden when we need him?
Too bad the State Supreme Court had to waste time and money on this pathetic manchild! Oh for the days of public shame and flogging!
Thank God Congress is spending our tax dollars to fund research into developing something to deal with the stench!
He’ll almost certainly still be seated in a seat his people almost certainly stole for him, but forcing the Senate RINOs to out themselves to pass Obama’s capitalism and responsibilty destroying legislation while Weird Al’s case is decided is a silver lining.
We have already identified 3 that must be defeated in the primaries, and who must not be supported if re-nominated, as they are Dem spies inside the GOP caucus.
If Coleman loses his longshot challenge, the folks in Minnesota will soon wish that Franken had been more sucessful as a talk show host and never run for office. But, they have “no one to blame but themselves”. A lot more folks are going to be coming down with NOTBBT syndrome very soon.
Since Franken puts out such a stench, perhaps Harry Reid will make him stand outside with the smelly tourists!!!
Only 3 ? Almost all of them have now supported Dems in one way or the other. How many voted for Hilda, Hillary, Geithner, Holder.
Vitter (Of DC madame fame) is the most principled GOP senator. That says a lot about the principles of Senate GOP.
They all need to be outed for what they are ; traitor RINOs.
The same may be said for our CinC, as far as I’m concerned.
Al Franken, loser.
Good luck to Coleman and the good people of Minnesota.
Maybe someone in Minn can answer this.
If it takes them 6 years to finish this count, does min have another election at that point, or does the winner get the next senate term?
Isn’t Al Franken only in this because of a Ross Perot type 3rd party candidate that took some of the conservative votes from Coleman?
When things are this close and there are questions as to how some districts counted more absentee ballots than they have registered voters or some other shenanigans like that, why don’t they just let the people go to the polls again and settle it. Wouldn’t it be cheaper and faster to do that?
Let the people speak, not the courts. I would be willing to bet that Coleman wins the re-vote by a large margin when there is no 3rd party fool splitting the vote. Minn can blame that guy just like America can blame Perot for giving us Bill Clinton and his subsequent legacy of hatred and division.
Yes, the vote was split. Even members of my immediate family voted for the third party. Coleman isn’t exactly the most loved Senator either, and is definitely a RINO. It would make way too much sense to have another election, so of course we won’t do it. It is costing more for the re-count than a new election, but again, stupidity wins. I am pretty disgusted with everything political these days.
Al Franken….what an egotistical moron. A joke is just a joke.
You are a joke Al.
And i never thought you were funny either.
There was a dude i knew in college like you. He always got his ass kicked at parties. It was fun to watch.
Bear1909
happyscrappper
I must stay here because my wife is apolitical, she sees the damage done by Barry Soetoro but is only concerned with shopping ability….. I’m too young to retire and must find work…. but I understand what you’re saying. You and your husband worked hard and paid your dues and now see it being stolen. Leave if you must( rhetorical, I know)… I would never blame you. But, I have to stay and I will fight.
Actually, David, I couldn’t really leave. My children and grandkids are all here and I wouldn’t leave them. Especially now that we are retired and have time to spend with them. I would miss them terribly. It is just my frustration talking. When it comes right down to it, I love Minnesota, mosquitoes and all!
I know, Happyscrapper, believe me I know…… I get so tired myself over people at HA telling me that MN needs to be blown off the face of the earth because of Klobochar and Franken. Heck, I came from Philadelphia…. and I love it here but am tired of all the ranting against this beautiful state. I hate that it’s so socialistic. There, I’ve vented. We’ll both survive as long as we stand strong and fight the good fight.
If the vote count in the Senate wasn’t so close I think Franken being in office would be so stupid and cause so much disruption that the bad headlines and PR he would make would be a gift to the opposition party. Now would not be the time for that. Dingy Harry would just tell him when to raise his hand and when to shut up. Know that would look bad for the state though.
Speaking of Dingy Harry I heard him tell the States today that on the Green Power Lines going through they were just going to have to do what He says.
How do these people even get on a ballot.
Arizona is nice this time of year. Granted there was more fishing in the Burnsville/Eagan area, but hiking in the desert and not having to drive on icy roads is a fair trade.
Maybe Al Franken should go back on Sat Night Live and do his Wink and Wendy Whiner skit:
“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I wanna be a Senator tooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Al Franken is a reject from the planet crapaziod. LOL
HappyS, C’mon down to the great state of Texas! The housing market in Houston is relatively cheap and you can play golf in January wearing shorts.
The added bonus is that when everything goes south we can nullify the treaty and simply secede.
The only downside: No basements.
..at least Coleman is still fighting and NOT kissing dem ass…and yes Ed…Snow, Collins, and spector MUST GO…I really don’t care if it bothers Bill Grant BTW..
Al is the example I use for all of the liberals I know who keep screaming that voter registration fraud is okay. When you have fraud registration numbers and a recount is needed then when some poll democrat worker forgot that she left over 200 ballots in her car, no questions are asked because it is still below the registration numbers.
Its just too bad for you they weren’t comparing the number of ballots to the number of registrations. They compared the number of ballots to the separate book people had to sign in when they came in to vote. And oddly enough, that book listed about 200 more voters than there were ballots.
Here’s hoping it stays that way. A little payback for Florida 2000?
Payback is everything for you libtards, isn’t it? How about what is good for the country? Oh, never mind.
You do know Franken’s entire candidacy is a farce? It’s based on a “Franken and Davis Show” skit he did with his writing partner, Tom Davis on SNL back in the late seventies.
“Maybe Franken will march onto Washington, Burris-style”. But does Minnesota have a Bobby Rush-Black Panthers Bobby Rush- to push him through? I just don’t see Keith “Mohamed da Man” Ellison having the weight to do it. But then between Minnesota and DC strange things do happen-botox explosions, smelly tourist, governors with pink bolos.
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Keep the change-I’ll keep my guns