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A challenge to Al Franken?

Jazz Shaw — Sat, 04 May 2013 23:01:25 +0000

Gosh darn it, people like me

Minnesota has a history of electing some strange politicians at times, no matter which party you’re from. But few of their notably quirky elections could match the time they sent Al Franken to the Senate. Is this notable era of political novelty going to come to an end? A wealthy Minneapolis finance executive appears poised [...]

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Franken: I’m not so sure about the assault-weapons ban; Update: “I also support the principle that we should reinstate a ban on assault weapons”

Ed Morrissey — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:11:10 +0000

Worried?

As Instapundit writes, “If Al Franken is undecided …” Senator Al Franken spoke in Rochester in support of universal background checks and magazine-capacity limits, but refused to endorse the centerpiece of Barack Obama’s gun-control push yesterday: On the day that President Obama proposed a sweeping package of gun-control measures, U.S. Sen. Al Franken signaled his [...]

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Franken going unchallenged in MN?

Ed Morrissey — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:21:42 +0000

Laying low.

Yesterday, National Journal’s Michael Catalini gave a rather depressing look at the prospects so far for Republicans in Minnesota’s 2014 Senate race, when Al Franken will defend his seat for the first time — and so far, no one has volunteered to challenge him. Norm Coleman, who lost the seat by 312 votes in 2008 [...]

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Another Hollywood star in the Senate?

Ed Morrissey — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:51:59 +0000

Divine secrets of tooth-fairy thinking.

Well, why not? George Miller did it in California in 1964. Al Franken did it in Minnesota four years ago … we’re pretty sure, anyway. Ashley Judd may become the next Hollywood star to try to gain a seat in the star-studded US Senate, according to Politico, perhaps as early as 2014: The Hollywood movie [...]

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Book: Voter fraud is real and has consequences (just look at Sen. Al Franken)

Rob Bluey — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:21:47 +0000

New book dismantles the left's argument

You’ve probably never heard of Greene County, Alabama. Yet this small county of 9,000 people in western Alabama, about an hour from Tuscaloosa, was home to one of the biggest voter-fraud scandals in recent history. Corrupt incumbents devised an elaborate scheme to rig the election using absentee ballots. When they prevailed on Election Day, skeptical [...]

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LightSquared lobbyists pushing MN legislators to demand action from Klobuchar, Franken

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:25:32 +0000

End-around on the test failure?

Hot on the heels of catastrophically bad test results for LightSquared, their new strategy to get FCC approval for their commercial rollout has emerged — in St. Paul, Minnesota, of all places. Last week, lobbyists started a full-court press on state legislators in an effort to pressure US Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken into [...]

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