Do Sen. Norm Coleman's (R-MN) kids not live with him?

I just heard this on AAR, but I wanted to be sure. If this is true, it's one hell of an example of GOP family values...:eyes:

Not that I would spread gossip about married Republicans who champion "family values"....

funny thing is she's also friends with Al Franken.

Of course, nobody will substantiate it. But it would not suprise most of us, who know that his "wife" has been living in Hollywood since his first term as St. Paul's mayor.

Don't ask me why ('cause I don't know) but for some odd reason I was invited to be a judge of the "Mrs. California Pageant" at Knotts Berry Farm some months ago. I bet the organizers were listeners of mine at some point. Whatever. One of my fellow judges was this tall, blonde, pretty model/would-be actress type who was married to Norm Coleman!!! Nice enough gal, didn't talk politics, didn't talk about him while we were all schmoozing together. Then, during the pageant itself, we were all introduced one-by-one, and I almost spit my drink when her intro came. WHOA! Fraternizing with the enemy, I was. And even afterwards, she pretty much kept to herself.

Earlier, we had had a rousing conversation with the Miss Teen California winner who wanted to practice her Q-and-A skills with us, and she'd issued this statement about how she wanted to spread the word about supporting Our President during this time of war and getting all of America behind him, and two of us questioned her about that. One of the other judges was a guy who covered entertainment for the BBC and he was, like me, very much against the war, and we gently but firmly took her to task about it. I told her as a onetime journalist I found it very disappointing that she wanted to use her influence when she went into the working world (NATURALLY, she wanted to get into the news business!!!!!) and reminded her that a real journalist MUST ALWAYS be objective and keep ALL personal views and opinions OUT OF his or her coverage. She listened and didn't argue her point very vigorously. I don't know if it sunk in. But later Nelson (the BBC guy) and I had quite a talk about it. We were both just a wee bit disgusted, and hoped that we had both set her straight. He was quite forceful about it when he questioned her.

Anyway, in the meantime, Mrs. Coleman hung back and didn't bring up any politics, and didn't participate at all in that exchange. In fact, she didn't say much, PERIOD. Maybe she knew SHE was in enemy territory. I realized after the fact that I could have blurted "Oh, WOW! They killed Paul Wellstone for YOUR HUSBAND!!!!!!" But I didn't. Guess I was too stunned to want to make a scene. It probably would have gotten a little ugly. We WERE in ultra-conservative Orange County at the time.

I forget her name. Tall, pretty blonde. But didn't leave much of an impression with you other than that.

His wife Laurie has been living in Hollywood for a number of years, at least, pursuing an "acting career" (she's had a few bit parts and commercials so far). IIRC the kids live with the grandparents most of the time, while Normie lives in D.C.

I believe the kids moved in with the grandparents when Laurie moved to Hollywood, which was before Norm's second term as St. Paul's mayor. I remember she put in an appearance at Norm's victory party when he won his second term. She was wearing something that could be best described as a short slip or a nighty, and her hair was all tossled-looking when Norm made his victory speech. I'm not a prude by any means, but she looked like some hoochie-mama, IMHO, and didn't seem to be dressed very appropriately for the occassion.

Yup, that's our Norm. But, at least as he says, he's a "99% improvement" over Wellstone. Whatever. :eyes:

That this worthless non-entitity is the successor to Paul Wellstone. For Coleman to say that he's a "99% improvement" over a great, principled man like Paul Wellstone is nothing short of libel.

Please, Minnesota DU'ers. Correct this in 2008.

Norm's got a HUGE target on his @$$ already, and it's still another four years until he's up for re-election! Just about every big-name DFLer has been mentioned as a possible opponent.

The fact that he votes lockstep w/ Shrub-n-Cheney (around 99%) and has gone back on his vote against drilling in ANWR makes this almost too easy. If Shrub goes down this year, his next four years will be hell.

Thank Allah we still have Mark Dayton around. We'd be in trouble without him!

:toast:

How very noble of him...

Yes, she lives in Hollywood pretty-much full-time, because she wants an acting career.

might have been some other show though. Forgot to watch it, does anyone know? Seems like that would be an interesting discussion!

Jon only got one really good jab in at him - noting his changing from the DFL to Republican party, and asked, "Would that be considered a flip-flop?"

The rest was pretty mild. Coleman tried to work in some Kerry digs, but the audience didn't respond.

Coleman is a true asshole and he only won because the MN Repukes managed to blame the DFLers for politicizing the memorial.

Jon made a pointed remark about the 'loyalty oaths' being required at Bush events. Coleman is either so completely out of touch with the general population that he really hasn't heard about this, or he straight up out-and-out lied. He made a comment to Stewart that he must have been watching too many move-on.org commercials, or something to that effect, and said that he had certainly never been asked to sign one! :eyes:

and add them to the votes that Senator Mondale received, COLEMAN LOST. Yet Coleman's absentee ballots were allowed and counted.

That election will remain in my mind as one of the worst ever in this state. Asshole Pawlenty would have lost too, if Tim Penney hadn't been in the race; he and Roger Moe split the Democratic vote.

After Coleman won, Keilor said it was such a special event that "they even flew his wife into Minnesota" for the party.

It was pretty punchy.

It caused quite a stir here in MN when he published it. Before Paul's death, GK had always been a loyal DFLer, but he wasn't very public about it. Now, he's hosting fundraisers for candidates and the party. In fact, he's hosting one this Saturday! It's great to have him on our side!

I am one Minnesotan who would welcome a run by Al Franken.

P.S. Can Senators be impeached or recalled for being slimy?

Unfortunately, there's no recall for Federal elected officials, which is the classification that Senators are included in. Daaarrrrn!

"Fuck Coleman" t-shirt. These were all the rage in Uptown during the 2002 elections. Black shirt, white lettering, to the point.
I still wear it when I go to protests.


Here comes a regular,
Noodleboy

Makes me want to move to Uptown! :toast:

And Uptown is my little slice of heaven, I can't wait to return. (i'm currently doing the hermit thing out here in the sticks for the summer)

I actually had a little 'encounter' with norm a couple of years ago. St. Paddy's day, I was in the Local. Norm came in with some of his hired goons. One of the goons shouldered me aside from my place at the bar so Norm could get in. I spent the next few minutes whistling my 's' sounds when I spoke. (This was before had that enormous gap in his teeth fixed, and before he started canneling Mayor Quimby every time he opened his fool mouth) He and the 2 goons started giving me the evil eye after awhile, so I skeedaddled down the street to Mackensie's.
Fuck Coleman indeed.

Maybe that's all the action he gets - since his wife isn't around much...

But then again...

Laurie tips the pizza guy more than Norm does.

I've seen some strange families but this is really funny. Wife is in Hollywood looking to be an actress like some stage struck 18 year old. Norm is in D.C. fucking over the American people after changing his stripes. And the kids are thrown to Grandma and Grandpa to raise. What the hell were you guys drinking up there on election night??? Doesn't this family seem a bit screwed up?? Isn't there something that seems a bit fake about this marriage?? Is this a guy you would want to buy a used car from??? Lutherans, you know better than this.

Seriously, the guy's a crook. Built a hockey stadium for his campaign donors with my tax money; now we don't have money for schools, cops, or parks.