That’s Senator-elect Franken to you.

(CNN) — Minnesota’s Supreme Court has dismissed former Sen. Norm Coleman’s challenge to the state’s November election results and declared Democratic challenger Al Franken the winner.

Minnesota’s Supreme Court ruled that Democrat Al Franken won the Minnesota Senate race.

The court’s unanimous, unsigned opinion declared that Franken “received the highest number of votes legally cast” and is entitled “to receive the certificate of election as United States senator from the state of Minnesota.”

For Norm Coleman this now completes what can most charitably be called the “Coleman Trifecta”, of losing that is. What’s a “Coleman Trifecta” you ask… first you lose to a dead guy ( Paul Wellstone), then to a Professional Wrestler ( Jesse Venture) then finally to an actor from Saturday Night Live.

The best part is that Coleman punked the NRSC to spend money they rilly rilly don’t have.

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June 30, 2009

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3 responses to “That’s Senator-elect Franken to you.”

Zaid

June 30, 2009

If I was him I’d walk into the Senate and rip off my shirt and let out a tarzan roar.
J.M. Prince

June 30, 2009

Really nice to see, and oh, about 6 months late for certain. And I was still getting calls from his campaign almost up until last week too. As I told folks way back during the campaign, their (NRSC) focus on Jim Martin down here to see Shameless,(who lives up to his name daily), reelected meant one thing. Their bases uncovered in a very close MN race they thought Coleman could pull out without much trouble.

So looks like the start of the Al Franken decade! But no, this does not mean nirvana has arrived on the US Senate floor either. We’ll still need 2 R votes regularly to break the ever determined Rethug filibusters. Which BTW, have become more commonly used in these most recent Congresses (by mostly Repug’s ‘natch), than ever before in US history. It was never intended to apply to 1:2 or 1:3 votes, and yet it commonly now is. Now go to your Constitution and see how it describes the use of filibusters. You can’t. It doesn’t! We should have called their bluff under Bush. We’d be in a better position today. JMP
JerryT

June 30, 2009

Looks like they saved some committee seats for him, including Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Judiciary, so he’ll be jumping right into the hot topics.

Also will have seats on Special Aging and Indian Affairs.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000003157088

That’s Senator-elect Franken to you.

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