{"id":192329,"date":"2009-04-14T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/14\/election-board-rules-for-franken-coleman-plans-appeal\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:15:00","slug":"election-board-rules-for-franken-coleman-plans-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/14\/election-board-rules-for-franken-coleman-plans-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Board Rules for Franken, Coleman Plans Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img220.imageshack.us\/img220\/1164\/eatitnorm12366923.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img220.imageshack.us\/img220\/1164\/eatitnorm12366923.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\"; width=\"375\" \/><\/a>The three judge panel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/senate\/42932907.html?elr=KArksDyycyUtyycyUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU\">soundly rejected Norm Coleman&#8217;s arguments<\/a>, using the term &#8220;absurd&#8221; in their opinion to describe some of his arguments, and <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/32058\/franken-i-will-be-certified\">hit his campaign with sanctions<\/a>, requiring that the Coleman campaign reimburse both the election court and the Franken campaign for a portion of their legal expenses. (click image for full size)<\/p>\n<p>Coleman has 10 days to appeal to the state Supreme court, and will probably use <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">all<\/span> of that time, since delay is what the &#8216;phants are paying for, and now everyone&#8217;s 2nd favorite Minnesota slimebag, Governor Tim Pawlenty, has <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2009\/04\/13\/pawlenty_elxcert\/\">signed on to the delay Franken at all costs camp<\/a>, because it will help his bid to the the Republican nominee for President in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, he has said that he would sign the certification when the state courts ruled, and now he&#8217;s saying that he&#8217;s likely to wait for the federal courts, in contravention of Minnesota law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three judge panel soundly rejected Norm Coleman&#8217;s arguments, using the term &#8220;absurd&#8221; in their opinion to describe some of his arguments, and hit his campaign with sanctions, requiring that the Coleman campaign reimburse both the election court and the Franken campaign for a portion of their legal expenses. (click image for full size) Coleman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192329"}],"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=192329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}