I just about blew a gasket today. Try Googling "former senator Norm Coleman".
Technically this is correct. The term to which he was elected has expired, and no one has been elected to take his place. He was a Senator, and he is not (yet) a Senator, so he is 'former Senator Norm Coleman'.
160 posted on 02/04/2009 7:05:29 AM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)