Franken camp to say more about recount 'developments'

[CatWoman]

Last update: November 13, 2008 - 10:11 AM

The Al Franken campaign will have more to say today in its recount battle with incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman.

Franken campaign spokesman Andy Barr will brief reporters "on developments" in the recount, the campaign said in a news release.

The unofficial tally by the Secretary of State's Office shows Republican Coleman with a 206-vote lead over his Democratic rival, well within the margin to trigger an automatic recount.

A hand-by-hand recount of about 2.9 million ballots will soon commence, with the declaration of a winner expected by mid-December.

Wednesday, a five-member canvassing board was named, which will carry great influence over the recount. The board meets Tuesday to certify the machine-counted tally, then will officially order the manual recount to start the next day. About a month later, it will determine the fate of ballots challenged during the recount.

The board's members are Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie; Supreme Court Chief Justice Eric Magnuson and Justice G. Barry Anderson, both appointed by GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty; and Ramsey County Chief Judge Kathleen Gearin and her deputy, Judge Edward Cleary.

Gearin joined the bench in a nonpartisan election in 1986. Cleary was appointed in 2002 by then-Gov. Jesse Ventura, an Independence Party member.

PAUL WALSH


http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/34396764.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUX

[Overseas]

1. They need to because Coleman is pulling some slimy Lee Atwater type tricks.

Heard about the Coleman camp planting a fake story about uncounted ballots being in a Democrat's car or something.

And they've been attacking Mark Ritchie a lot.



To learn more about Lee Atwater, Karl Rove's idol, check out

Boogieman The Lee Atwater Story www.boogiemanfilm.com,

which is now running as part of the Frontline series too, I hear.

[AllieB]

2. I watched the Lee Atwater special the other night.

He was a sociopath. His tactics helped ruin this country for many years, and hopefully now we're seeing a change to a different kind of politics with Obama's election.

[CatWoman]

7. scary, wasn't it?

I was struck at how all of his inside ugliness burst thru and completely copnsumed his outside.

[Overseas]

9. I yearn for lofty discussion of how to reach our ideals as a nation

so it is scary when the GOP boys and girls will cross barriers into The Ends Justify the Means territories, with lies and deceit excused as long as they serve a tactical function well. A trait I regret to have seen exacerbated by Big Brother type cooped-up-together strategy games on the TV.

The joyous win of Barack Obama was a resounding rejection of slimeball politics. And I wish the GOP aka Republicans would accept that fact, rather than try to figure out how to do less crude sliming next time. Will they next try "Slime Your Enemies with a Smile"? And will that be full circle back to the Atwater style but 4.0 ?

Newt Gingrich has been swanning around lately. He's got the famous word lists from his GOPAC memo called Language: A Mechanism of Control

link here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm

[CatWoman]

6. Frontline did an excellent expose on Atwater Tuesday night

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/

[AtomicKitten]

3. Coleman is working the refs a la Florida circa 2000.

I hope Franken is lawyered up. I know Obama sent a team.

Now it's all GOTV.

[AlCzervik]

4. the gop must be really worried that Coleman is going to lose, they're been spreading some

pretty ugly things about the sos of Mn and the people who will be participating in the recount.

[eleny]

5. I donated to his campaign again the other day

He's going to need the help before this is over.

[obiwan]

8. I'm a Cleary too. Trust this judge.