{"id":3044,"date":"2009-04-14T22:50:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T03:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2009-04-17T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T14:31:32","slug":"such-silliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/14\/such-silliness\/","title":{"rendered":"such silliness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Court Declares Franken Winner
Coleman to Appeal<\/a><\/strong>
Tuesday 14 April 2009
by: Pat Doyle
Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n

\"photo\"A three-judge panel in Minnesota has declared Al Franken the winner of the contested US Senate race there. Norm Coleman is expected to appeal. (Photo: AP) Three judges soundly rejected Norm Coleman’s attempt to reverse Al Franken’s lead in the U.S. Senate election late Monday, sweeping away the Republican’s claims in a blunt ruling Coleman promised to appeal. After a trial spanning nearly three months, the judicial panel dismissed Coleman’s central argument that the election and its aftermath were fraught with systemic errors that made the results invalid.<\/p>\n

"The overwhelming weight of the evidence indicates that the Nov. 4, 2008, election was conducted fairly, impartially and accurately," the panel said in its unanimous decision. The panel concluded that Franken, a DFLer, "received the highest number of votes legally cast" in the election. Franken emerged from the trial with a 312-vote lead, the court ruled, and "is therefore entitled to receive the certificate of election."<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters outside his downtown Minneapolis condominium, Franken, flanked by his wife, Franni, said he had "no control" over what Coleman does next but said he would urge his opponent not to appeal, which would delay his certification. "I am honored and humbled by this close victory," he said. "And it’s long past time we got to work"…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
It’s when I read things like this that I shudder and remember the Bush years. At other times, I am remarkably free of the constant drone of America gone sour that pervaded my consciousness for those eight years. This Coleman\/Franken thing is such a blast from the recent past. Endless legal wheelings and dealings with no concern for the impact on the country. Like the silly claims of Presidential powers or the memos of Mr. Yoo, things are twisted and turned for political gain. It’s hard to imagine that Coleman or his handlers actually think he could win. Rather, the point seems to be to keep Franken out of the Senate for as long as possible. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And then there’s Senator Saxby Chambliss from my State trying to keep us building obsolete fighters from a former era – such silliness from people passing themselves off as adults…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Court Declares Franken Winner Coleman to Appeal Tuesday 14 April 2009by: Pat Doyle Minneapolis Star Tribune A three-judge panel in Minnesota has declared Al Franken the winner of the contested US Senate race there. Norm Coleman is expected to appeal. (Photo: AP) Three judges soundly rejected Norm Coleman’s attempt to reverse Al Franken’s lead in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}