Another Republican crook loose on the streets: Minnesota, be on the lookout for a WM, 59, senator...

marmar

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Sat Dec-13-08 09:39 AM
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Another Republican crook loose on the streets: Minnesota, be on the lookout for a WM, 59, senator...

from ThinkProgress:

Report: Coleman�s illicit funds helped pay for home renovations.�

Earlier this week, news reports indicated that the FBI is investigating allegations that Nasser Kazeminy, a Minnesota businessman �tried to funnel $75,000″ to Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) through his wife. Now, a Minnesota Fox News affiliate reports that the timing of the payments suggest that the funds were used to pay for a portion of the senator�s home renovations:

(Coleman�s) campaign did agree to share billing records of the remodeling project. Original projections in 2006 estimated a cost of $328,000, but four months later, the construction cost was estimated at $414,000, over-budget by $86,000.

During that time is when, the lawsuit alleges, Kazeminy was trying to get money to Coleman. According to the lawsuits, in March of 2007, Kazeminy said that �U.S. Senators don�t make s�� and he was going to try to find a way to get money to Coleman.

The renovations included remodeling the Colemans� kitchen, which Coleman showed off in a recent campaign ad: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/coleman-kitchen-lawsuit/

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Sat Dec-13-08 09:45 AM
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1. Coleman is such a slime bucket bottom feeder that it's

impossible to understand how he got so many re-election votes. WTF? Obama took the state by a hefty margin, which means a significant number of voters chose Obama and then basically negated their vote by casting a ballot to return that useless piece of Repuke shit to the Senate. People apparently have no idea what the hell they are voting for.

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Sat Dec-13-08 09:56 AM
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2. Don't underestimate the pull of a third party candidate during an ugly campaign...

Barkley threw a wrench in the whole thing by stealing lots of votes from both parties.

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Sat Dec-13-08 09:57 AM
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3. It was a 3 way election.. which is why there was such a diff in totals.

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