{"id":191742,"date":"2009-06-30T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/30\/franken-wins-coleman-concedes\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:11:00","slug":"franken-wins-coleman-concedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/30\/franken-wins-coleman-concedes\/","title":{"rendered":"Franken Wins, Coleman Concedes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Supreme Court declared that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=a_0vTv_Vz92c\">Al Franken won<\/a>, and Norm Coleman conceded:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Democrat Al Franken won Minnesota\u2019s disputed U.S. Senate seat as a loss at the state Supreme Court prompted Republican Norm Coleman to concede.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate Al Franken\u201d on his victory, Coleman said at a news conference outside his home in St. Paul. \u201cSure I wanted to win,\u201d the Republican said, though he said further litigation would damage the state\u2019s unity. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fact that Coleman conceded indicates that he&#8217;s going to run for governor, because it was clear that the RSCC would have continued funding challenges all the way to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>He knew that if continued the challenge from here, that he would not be able to be elected dog catcher in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>But really, it&#8217;s all about him, Al Franken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Supreme Court declared that Al Franken won, and Norm Coleman conceded: Democrat Al Franken won Minnesota\u2019s disputed U.S. Senate seat as a loss at the state Supreme Court prompted Republican Norm Coleman to concede. \u201cI congratulate Al Franken\u201d on his victory, Coleman said at a news conference outside his home in St. Paul. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}