Minnesotans, are you ready for civil disobedience if Coleman refuses to give up?

Doctor_J

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Tue Jun-30-09 01:39 PM
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Minnesotans, are you ready for civil disobedience if Coleman refuses to give up?

You need to shut the state down, peacefully, if the Repukes continue to obstruct the constitution.

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villager

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Tue Jun-30-09 01:40 PM
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1. as all Americans should've done, in '00

Good question: Have we learned enough, at last, to keep them from stealing another one?

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BOSSHOG

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Tue Jun-30-09 01:41 PM
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2. Conservatives are all for fair elections

IN IRAN!

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elocs

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Tue Jun-30-09 02:34 PM
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3. Coleman has a legal right not to give up if he chooses. Franken would have had the same right.

There is no call for any civil disobedience, particularly from anyone outside of MN. This will all be over soon enough and from what I have heard on MN Public Radio Minnesotans are proud of their state and how it has handled this. Would this have ever come to pass in FL or OH?

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Doctor_J

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Tue Jun-30-09 03:41 PM
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4. so I will take that as a "nothing, we don't care"

:thumbsup:

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Thegonagle

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Tue Jun-30-09 03:46 PM
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5. Take that as: Coleman conceded about 45 minutes ago.

Edited on Tue Jun-30-09 03:50 PM by Thegonagle

Pawlenty's people have confirmed that the governor plans to sign the certificate.

If that had not happened, yes, we would care--a lot!

But we don't need outstaters telling us how to handle our business. The process was civilized to the end. (It took a while, but no blood was spilled--we prefer it that way.)

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elocs

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Tue Jun-30-09 03:59 PM
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7. That has been the constant problem here: outstaters trying to tell MN how to conduct its business.

MN should be proud of how this entire episode was handled and that it took the time to do it right and did not kowtow to pressure from outsiders. It's amusing to see someone from another state advising Minnesotans to engage if civil disobedience if things don't go their way.

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elocs

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Tue Jun-30-09 03:54 PM
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6. Take that as I don't believe it is appropriate to protest someone's legitimate legal right,

the exact same right that would be open to Franken. I care about the law and about everyone's legal rights as should any Democrat because we don't pick and choose when it comes to the law. Fortunately it is a moot point now.

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lindisfarne

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Tue Jun-30-09 05:21 PM
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8. No. But he has. Civil disobedience is for when laws are unjust or not being followed. Neither was

the case in MN. The law was badly written (did not really envision all the difficulties of a close election plus challenges of absentee votes (laws about absentee votes need to change, too)), but not unjust.

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rasputin1952

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Tue Jun-30-09 05:49 PM
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9. Well...this thread is moot...

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