MYD | the Manhattan Young Democrats » norm coleman http://gomyd.com I'm Young. I'm Progressive. Now What? Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:15:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Congrats, Al Franken http://gomyd.com/2009/06/30/congrats-al-franken/ http://gomyd.com/2009/06/30/congrats-al-franken/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:31:32 +0000 Emmy http://gomyd.com/?p=2548 You might recall we posted here about “A Dollar A Day To Make Norm Go Away“–a campaign to get Norm Coleman to drop his lawsuit keeping Minnesota Senator-elect Al Franken from officially taking up his seat. Good news! MN Supreme Court has ruled in his favor: 

Just now, the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down its unanimous verdict [PDF] on the long-running, unresolved contest between Al Franken and Norm Coleman to determine who will fill the state’s vacant U.S.

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]]> You might recall we posted here about “A Dollar A Day To Make Norm Go Away“–a campaign to get Norm Coleman to drop his lawsuit keeping Minnesota Senator-elect Al Franken from officially taking up his seat. Good news! MN Supreme Court has ruled in his favor: 

Just now, the Minnesota Supreme Court handed down its unanimous verdict [PDF] on the long-running, unresolved contest between Al Franken and Norm Coleman to determine who will fill the state’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. Specifically, the decision pertains to which candidate received the most votes and whether those votes were counted (and recounted) properly. This was the whole basis of Coleman’s case against Franken, rejected by a lower court, and now rejected by the state’s highest court as well.

Hopefully this will put an end to the matter and Coleman will not appeal. 

Minnesota Supreme Rules for Franken

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]]> http://gomyd.com/2009/06/30/congrats-al-franken/feed/ 0 A Dollar A Day To Make Norm Go Away http://gomyd.com/2009/04/27/a-dollar-a-day-to-make-norm-go-away/ http://gomyd.com/2009/04/27/a-dollar-a-day-to-make-norm-go-away/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:04:30 +0000 Emmy http://gomyd.com/?p=1328 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

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]]> 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:

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