Coleman's Legal Spokesman Makes It Clear: Norm's a Sore Loser, Still Trying To Steal Election

[jefferson_dem]

Coleman's Legal Spokesman Makes It Clear: We Are Appealing
By Eric Kleefeld - April 14, 2009, 12:45PM

On a conference call with reporters just now, Norm Coleman's legal spokesman Ben Ginsberg reaffirmed that the Coleman campaign is appealing yesterday's defeat in the election court, which declared that Al Franken won the election.

"We have been reviewing the court's order and we feel that they have misunderstood a number of the issues as well as what's at stake in this case," said Ginsberg. "And so let me reiterate what we have said so that there is absolutely no mistake about this: Senator Coleman and Cullen Sheehan will be appealing this decision from the three-judge court."

Ginsberg laid out the various issues that are ripe for appeal -- which were pretty much all the issues. The most in-depth treatment was given to the question of rejected absentee ballots, with Ginsberg insisting that it was a constitutional violation to not include the roughly 4,400 envelopes from the Coleman camp's list. Ginsberg also pointed out that these ballots came mostly from precincts that Coleman won, and at the precinct level this becomes a decent predictor of what the votes will be.

"The court was very defensive of the Minnesota system," said Ginsberg. "The purpose of a contest is to be protective of the rights of the voters. And instead of spending so much time patting themselves on the back about the Minnesota system, the court really missed the big picture that I think, in its prior rulings, the Minnesota Supreme Court has been conscious of."

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[Binka]

1. FUCK YOU BEN! REALLY! FU!

"The court really missed the big picture......" Ben the big picture is you fucking lost. Go away asshole and take Denture boy with you.

[leftynyc]

2. It's time for the under-represented

people in MN to start making some serious noise about this.

[Vinca]

3. What a combination of sore loserism and an attorney taking advantage

of a situation to rake in big bucks.