Al Franken Will Be Declared Winner in Senate Race
Proving once again that Libtard Democrats are cheaters, and Democracy in America is dead…
Don’t believe me? Consider this little tidbit from the Wall Street Journal – There are now more ballots than actual voters in Minnesota:
Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote.
Franken to be declared Senate victor in Minnesota
Mon Jan 5, 2009 – Reuters
By Todd Melby
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, state officials said on Sunday.
But Coleman, the incumbent, has asked Minnesota’s supreme court to require that a few hundred additional absentee ballots be included in the recount — and he could then ask the court to investigate the contest all over again.
“At the moment, Franken has a 225-vote lead,” after the weekend counting of what were deemed the last uncounted absentee ballots, said Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, a Democrat who oversaw the process.
Ritchie said unless the supreme court acts on Coleman’s request and orders more ballots to be counted, he will reconvene the state’s Canvassing Board on Monday to certify Franken as the winner of the November 4 contest.
Even so, Coleman’s campaign said it will likely challenge the result, which would require the state supreme court’s chief justice to appoint three judges to investigate its claims.
Hundreds of absentee voters were “disenfranchised,” other votes were double-counted, and still other ballots that went missing were counted anyway, Coleman’s campaign manager Cullen Sheehan said in a statement.
“We remain convinced that this process is broken, and as a result, the numbers being reported will not be accurate or valid … (It) clearly means that a contest is the only likely remedy to ensure a fair outcome,” Sheehan said.
SATIRIST
Franken, 57, is a well-known satirist who wrote for and starred on NBC television’s long-running comedy show “Saturday Night Live,” and more recently hosted a liberal radio show before running for the Senate from his home state.
Coleman, 59, just completed his first term that he won by defeating Walter Mondale, the former Democratic presidential candidate who stood in for Sen. Paul Wellstone. Wellstone died in a plane crash during his 2002 reelection campaign.
The recount of some 2.4 million votes cast for the pair has swung back and forth over several weeks. Coleman initially held the edge, but his narrow victory margin necessitated the recount under state law.
The Canvassing Board sifted through hundreds of ballots contested by the two campaigns.
“The recount has been done so precisely, and so transparently,” it would be difficult to envision a challenge succeeding, Ritchie said.
Senate Republicans have pledged not to seat Franken provisionally while the race is still in doubt. Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York urged that Franken be seated, which would expand the party’s majority to 58 of the 100 members.
But Republican Sen. John Cronyn of Texas issued a sharply worded statement saying “Sen. Schumer’s exultations are premature to say the least.”
“There is the pending Supreme Court case and likely election contest that will ultimately decide, consistent with Minnesota law, who won the election,” Cronyn said.
President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat in Illinois is still in limbo. The Senate’s Democratic leadership is promising not to seat Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s appointee, Roland Burris, due to the taint of corruption charges hanging over the governor. Among those are charges are that he tried to sell the seat for campaign cash or jobs.
(Writing by Andrew Stern; Editing by Chris Wilson)
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5 January, 2009 at 1:04 pm
THE ENEMY WITHIN
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1962
Frankin is just a tiny spot of poo splattered up from the larger cesspool.
It’s not a pretty picture
5 January, 2009 at 3:04 pm
This should be settled in a Trial by Ordeal
5 January, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Totally besides the point, just found this lovely joke and want to share it.
January 5
Change of Address.
In a few short days, an African American man will move from his private residence into a much larger and infinitely more expensive one owned not by him but by the taxpayers. A vast lawn, a perimeter fence and many well trained security specialists will insulate him from the rest of us but the mere fact that this man will be residing in this house should make us all stop and count our blessings – because it proves that we live in a nation where anything is possible.
Many believed this day would never come. Most of us hoped and prayed that it would, but few of us actually believed we would live to see it. Racism is an ugly thing in all of its forms and there is little doubt that if this man had moved into this house fifteen years ago, there would have been a great outcry – possibly even rioting in the streets.
Today, we can all be both grateful and proud that no such mayhem will take place. when this man takes up residency in this house.
This man, moving into this house at this time in our nation’s history is much more than a simple change of addresses for him – it is proof of a change in our attitude as a nation. It is an amends of sorts – the righting of a great wrong. It is a symbol of our growth, and of our willingness to “judge a man, not by the color of his skin but by the content of his character”.
There can be little doubt now that the vast majority of us truly believe that this man has earned both his place in history and his new address. His time in this house will not be easy – it will be fraught with danger and he will face many challenges. I am sure there will be many times when he asks himself how in the world he ended up here and like all who have gone before him, the experience will age him greatly.
But I for one will not waste an ounce of worry for his sake – because in every way a man can, he asked for this. His whole life for the past fifteen years appears to have been inexorably leading this man toward this house. It is highly probable that in the past, despite all of his actions, racism would have kept this man out of this house. Today, I thank the Lord above that I am an American and that I live in a nation where wrongs are righted, where justice matters and where truly anything is possible.
‘Who is this man?’ you ask. You think you know, don’t you? See below.
The picture below it was of O.J. in cuffs.
5 January, 2009 at 6:01 pm
What democRATS can’t win, they steal. Maybe this is what it will take to bring the Minnesotans to reality. I have to deal with Dennis Kucinich as my congressman. They’ll have to deal with Stuart Smalley. God help us all.
6 January, 2009 at 4:08 am
I, for one, am delighted that a total psychotic weirdo like Franken may end up stealing a seat in the Senate. (Goes great with the Illinois gov trying to sell one.) He’s good company for the lunatic fringe already running things. Nothing we can say, do or prove would change any minds: facts don’t matter. Only the liberals can expose themselves for the wackjobs they are. Fortunately, they are already busily showing themselves for the unscrupulous liars, lunatics, crooks and thugs they are. All the radical factions have begun fighting with each other, and that will intensify. All these ‘scandals’ and The One hasn’t even been inaugurated yet.
Imagine what happens when he can’t hide behind “there’s only one President at a time” and his anti-war freaks start demanding the wars end…his plan to create jobs may well include reinstating the draft. That should go over great with Code Stink and MoveOn.orgy. And then there’s the pending massive tax hikes….the sheep expecting their mortgages and gas to be paid for…and so on.
Obama has created himself a knotty problem…
Rich and powerful loonies and the brainwashed masses helped him win the WH and gain bigger majorities in Congress, but implementing the agenda he promised them would alienate 70-80% of the country. Then, he loses Congress in 2010 and he ends up a despised, ridiculed, lame duck, one-term President.
His agenda doesn’t have the support of mainstream America, and he knows it. He lied and the loonies helped him pull it off. If he doesn’t keep his promises to them, they turn on him… Since he has near-supermajorities in both houses of Congress, he has no excuses (he’d be better off with a GOP majority in one or both houses, then he could blame the evil GOP for stopping him). He’s screwed himself.
There’s no doubt that very rough times are ahead, but it may be our salvation in the end to suffer the pain while there’s still a Republic to save. A few more years of the rats subverting us quietly…chipping away at it…and it wouldn’t matter. America needs a harsh reality check.
Some of God’s greatest gifts really are unanswered prayers. This situation may be the salvation of our Founders’ Republic.
Not to mention being damned entertaining to watch the Democrat family feud…