Pawlenty Says He'll Certify MN Senate Race After State Court Process Completes

Source: BRAD BLOG, MSNBC



Pawlenty Says He'll Certify MN Senate Race After State Court Process Completes

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) informed MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell:



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I can't believe the GOP will stop obstructing once the MN Supreme Court rules on this.

I'll believe it when I see it.

It is a foregone conclusion that Norm Coleman will take the case to the federal courts hoping for Scalia to intervene.

sorry, I know he isn't the worst,, but he IS probably the worse Governor the State of MN has EVER had.

It makes me sick every time Rachel has him on her show and doesn't confront him. He is not a moderate. he is another Grover Norquist lackey. He is only for himself and the neo-con men.

They have only half the representation in the Senate of any other state. They're okay with this?

Poll after poll shows we want Norm the Worm to drop out and for Senator Franken to be seated.

Oh, and the only reason Pawlenty the Weasel is in office is because the Independent party in MN routinely splits the liberal vote, so the repuke gets in. Pawlenty has never received 50% of the vote. He won by only 1% last time, 46.7% to Mike Hatch's 45.7%, with Peter Hutchinson getting 6.7%.

Will he get a show on FOX like Huckabee?

vote for the date and time you think Al Franken will be sworn in.

win a prize

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5770030&mesg_id=5770030

...as long as they declare Norm Coleman the winner.

:eyes:

How many times does Franken have to win before we know who the winner is?

I don't take any Republican at his/her word any more.

Simply amazing.

The neocons would rather a state have no representation at all rather than the "evil opposition" hold office.

And what was it that Coleman said when he thought he had the lead? Something like, "I hope you will be a man, recognize that I have won, and just step down and not subject the voters to a prolonged dragged out process."

And hypocrite that Coleman is, when he lost recount he just kept on dragging it on and on.

aspirations. This way he can feign fairness, and all that jazz.

when are the people of the great state of MN going to storm the capitol and demand that their senator be seated?

FWIW, I predict that Franken will never take his Senate seat. Our party is weak, completely impotent, and leaderless, and will allow this election to be stolen just like we have every 2 years beginning in 2000. If anything were going to be done about this travesty, it would have been done 4 months ago

... after all, this will not make the extreme wing (or Hannity or Limbaugh) happy.

My guess is he is using this to set the national stage as a moderate, trying to appeal to those outside of Minnesota as the lone, reasonable, work-across-the-aisles, Obama-esque person in the Republican party (btw, he isn't).

He's been dumped on twice by GOP leadership ... first, when he was told NOT to run for US Senate in 2004 (they hand-picked Coleman to challenge Wellstone) and then in 2008 when they bypassed him for bat shit crazy Palin as the V.P. candidate (and they regretted that immediately). But they don't seem to understand is he is what they want - he transfers wealth to the wealthy, cuts decades-old social safety nets, refuses to raised taxes and can do so with a smile on his face while talking about growing up with a father who drove a truck in blue collar St. Paul. Meanwhile, our public k-12 school system - once among the top in the nation - has slid to the middle-of-the-pack and the infrastructure is now so bad that even business groups and chambers of commerce were lobbying for increasing the state gas tax to fix the damn roads. Minnesota is sliding to shit and he's steering the turd, kind of like Slim Pickens straddling the falling bomb in "Dr. Strangelove."

So, starting about a year ago, he's been stumping with his "Walmart Republicans" stories to every organization outside the state of Minnesota who will serve up chicken to a few hundred people, trying to appear all sensible and moderate in an aw gee shucks sort of way. With only 20 % of the public identifying themselves as Republicans these days, signing the certificate gives his some national exposure as one of the few Republicans who is fair minded.

Don't trust him, folks. He's Grover Norquiest with good hair and charm.

for a loooooong while, if Coleman has anything to say about it.

The weak, weak, weak, simpering Dem's could have seated him as soon as it was evident and absolute that he won (the pugs would have). But then I am not sure that is what the DINO's (most of the democratic senate) want; Franken is a true progressive and that is their worst nightmare. The kabuki dance will become that much more evident.

Pawlenty: I'll Certify Franken's Election -- If There's No Order Against It From A Federal Court
By Eric Kleefeld - June 3, 2009, 5:22PM

This is the sort of thing that gets people wondering whether Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) will actually sign a certificate of election for Al Franken -- as he's said he would do -- once the Minnesota Supreme Court hands down its expected ruling in Al's favor.

Pawlenty appeared this afternoon on the Neil Cavuto show, and Cavuto observed that Pawlenty's decision to not run for a third term, which many people see as a possible lead-up to a presidential campaign in 2012, also frees him up to fight for Norm Coleman. Pawlenty denied that he would behave in such a manner -- but he did point out some possible circumstances that could hold things up further ...

"Well, I hope not, but you know I have to follow the law," Pawlenty responded. "You know, Neil, if the Minnesota Supreme Court says, 'You sign the certificate' -- and there's not an appeal or some other contrary direction from a federal court -- you know, that's my duty" ...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/pawlenty-ill-certify-frankens-election----if-theres-no-order-against-it-from-a-federal-court.php

I do believe, however, that it would be good to shine the national spotlight on him if he refuses to comply with the state court order. I don't think that a federal court will issue an injunction - there is little "likelihood" of Coleman prevailing.