MYD got an email last week from Senate Guru about the Senate race in Minnesota. A bit of background:
You’ve no doubt heard the news stories surrounding the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota. Republican Norm Coleman is playing the role of the sore loser, continuing his endless appeals in order to prevent Democratic Senator-elect Al Franken from being seated… Several Minnesota newspapers that endorsed Coleman have even urged him to abandon his fruitless appeals… Meanwhile, Washington D.C. Republicans continue to fund Coleman’s lawyers as they believe it is in their interest to keep Al Franken out of the Senate.
Now, the progressive netroots have come up with a creative incentive that kills two birds with one stone. NormDollar (which has already raised $35K) asks for daily dollar donations for every day that Norm Coleman does not concede, and will channel the funds to proressive candidates in 2010:
