Posted on 12/07/2017 8:53:31 AM PST by dragnet2
Just reported via KFI radio, Los Angeles AM 640 --
Senator Al Franken Resigns
Trump isn't going anywhere and neither is Moore. Russia is a nothing burger so they are trying anything. After this blows over we will hear reports how Trump has peed in the shower.
“Where is Norm Coleman, these days?”
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/363619-franken-resignation-could-upend-minnesota-races
Two familiar faces that state Republicans believe could make waves are former Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Sen. Norm Coleman, who lost to Franken in 2008 by a few hundred votes.
While Pawlenty has publicly tamped down rumors he’s considering a gubernatorial bid, an opening in the Senate could mix things up. And Coleman, who was spotted in the Capitol on Wednesday, told reporters that he hasn’t ruled out a bid.
“Those are two guys that have been on the sidelines for the long time, and they have the national recognition and fundraising ability to take on the [Democratic-Farm-Labor] machine in Minnesota,” one top Minnesota Republican told The Hill.
Another possible candidate could be Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), who lost a narrow race for governor in 2010.
It’s also possible that state Rep. Jim Newberger, the Republican already running against Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), could hop over to an open seat if he believes a crowded primary could be a better bet than a tough slog against a popular incumbent.
Similarly, Republicans predicted that a Franken resignation or retirement could scramble the crowded GOP gubernatorial field.
Stewart Mills III, a businessman who lost to Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.) in each of the past two cycles, told The Hill that while he doesn’t expect Franken to resign, he’d “more than kick the tires” on a bid if Franken stepped down.
The Saudi Lobbying Complex Adds a New Member: GOP Super PAC Chair Norm Coleman
As the Obama administration counts on Saudi Arabia as a key ally against ISIS, the kingdom flexes its muscles in Washington.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
Saudi Arabia’s political operation already includes former Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who chairs one of the largest Republican Super PACs in the country, as well as the public relations firm MSLGROUP/Qorvis, and Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company that funds several influential American political groups, including the American Petroleum Institute. Aramco’s U.S. subsidiary, Saudi Refining, is a registered agent of the Saudi government. The government also finances a number of think tanks and universities, and has made contributions to prominent American nonprofits, including the Clinton Foundation.
He didn’t resign. Running out the clock in some way; can’t figure it out.
Wasn’t Coleman basically a carpetbagger from New York?
Bad news. His successor will likely be worse.
Look for him to rescind if the Senate seats Moore.
Hurray! Not soon enough, in my opinion.
He's already vested for pension. He's been a Senator for 10 years.
I hope Governor Dayton (who once lost a Senate election) has himself appointed. Why? Because whoever gets it will be terrible, but I remember 40 years ago when then-Gov. Wendell Anderson had his Lt. Gov. appoint him to the Senate seat.
Both Senate seats were up the following year because Humphrey had died. The GOP won the governorship and both Senate seats.
OK, it was Boschwitz and Durenberger, but they were a little bit better than the Democrats. So my long memory causes me to want Dayton to have himself appointed.
(Besides, I don’t want Keith Ellison in the Senate.)
There’s worse ?
It would be, if it were true. It isn't. They become vested for pension after serving 5 years. They can begin drawing it after age 62. And it's a percentage of their salary depending on length of service.
Well, Ellison, for one.
Wiki:
Coleman was born in New York, a son of Norman Bertram Coleman Sr. and his wife, Beverly (Behrman).[1] His family was Jewish, his paternal grandfather having changed the surname from Goldman to Coleman.[2] He was a graduate of James Madison High School in Brooklyn and Hofstra University on Long Island. New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, attended high school with Coleman; Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are both graduates of the same high school.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/01/07/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-norm-coleman
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Norm Coleman
1. Norman Bertram Coleman Jr. was born Aug. 17, 1949, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was the third-oldest of the eight children of Norman and Beverly Coleman.
2. The Coleman family was involved in local Democratic Party politics. Norm Coleman has said that one of his earliest memories is of helping his grandfather distribute Adlai Stevenson campaign literature in the neighborhood.
3. Coleman graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn in 1966. Another future senator was there at the same time: New York’s Chuck Schumer, who graduated one year later.
4. After high school, Coleman went on to Hofstra University on Long Island. There, he became a leader of anti-Vietnam War protests. He was active in student government, too, serving as the president of the Student Senate in 1970.
5. In 1969, Coleman spent a summer as a roadie for the band Ten Years After. That same year, he and a friend hitched a ride to Woodstock, where Coleman spent his 20th birthday.
6. After he received his bachelor’s degree in 1971, Coleman went to work for the New York City building inspection department while he attended law school at night. Soon after, former Hofstra Vice President William Shanhouse recruited him to attend the University of Iowa law school, where he received a full scholarship.
7. Coleman came to Minnesota in 1976, when he was recruited to work in the state attorney general’s office.
8. Coleman is married to the former Laurie Casserly, an actress and model. The couple has had four children, two of whom died in infancy of a genetic disorder.
9. Coleman became the mayor of St. Paul in 1994 as a member of the DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) Party. Many praised him for his efforts to revitalize the city and to bring the Minnesota Wild hockey team to the city. However, he frequently found himself in conflict with more liberal members of the party. In 1996, he was sometimes booed at party events or excluded from them, even though he was cochair of Bill Clinton’s campaign in Minnesota. Coleman switched to the Republican Party that December and won re-election as mayor the following year. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002 after his opponent, incumbent Sen. Paul Wellstone, was killed in a plane crash days before the election.
10. Coleman lists some of his hobbies as fishing, reading, and listening to music. Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan are two of his favorite artists.
9 years
Thanks Ezekiel.
I’m not sure it gets worse than Franken. This doesn’t bother me.
Perhaps you see an angle I’m missing.
I stand corrected. Still vested though.
What ??
I agree 100%.
It doesn’t mean these dirty Dems won’t try, though. They are beyond corrupt.
They’ll also discover that Judge Moore had milk and cookies with a 15 year old girl, when he was 5.
VERY TRUE and Mad Maxine as well
If you changed your mind about a deal and decided to pull out, you had a clause in the original contract that allowed you to do just that.
If Franken decides to resign, then he's said he will in the "coming" weeks. He's covered himself.
And if Franken decides to stay in the seat long enough to vote against Trump on some key bills like tax reform and until after Moore is elected to the senate, then he can still do that and still keep within his "in coming weeks" timeline.
But if Franken decides to stay on as senator until his term is over, he has an still out. His statement doesn't pin down when that resignation would be, except in the future. "In the coming weeks" could mean anything from two weeks to forever. He may wait for this all to blow over to see what happens.
No matter what he decides to do, from the statement today, "in the coming weeks" gives Franken his weasel clause.
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