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In St. Louis, Norm Coleman offers GOP “City Slicker” wisdom

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman – still embroiled in a fight for his old seat with comedian/Democrat Al Franken – was in downtown St. Louis Thursday, the keynote speaker at the Conservative Heartland conference.

The conference, organized by St. Louis GOP lawyer Ed Martin – a one-man party machine — also featured appearances from Grover Norquist, Phyllis Schlafly and David Limbaugh.

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Since the content of your “story” is filled with so much commentable material, how’s this:
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Zombie Robbery… 2,812 Dead Voters May Give MN Senate Seat to Franken
Return of the Zombie Voters–
Here’s today’s horror story… A review of Minnesota’s statewide database of registered voters revealed at least 2,812 deceased individuals voted in last November’s general election, according to a new report by the “traditional values” advocacy group Minnesota Majority.

Conservative author David Limbaugh and Senator Norm Coleman spoke this afternoon at the Conservative Heartland Leadership Conference in St. Louis, Missouri.

I spoke with Senator Coleman after his speech today. Senator Coleman is contesting the results that tipped the Minnesota senate race to Democrat Al Franken. He said the court could decide next week or a few weeks from now but that he expected a decision soon.

Related… Catherine Favazza reported on Senator Coleman’s speech to conservatives today at American Issues Project.
Posted by Gateway Pundit at 6/04/2009 04:24:00 PM
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Now that’s a “commentable” story. Can’t even say nice try.

— dr-debunk
7:54 pm June 4th, 2009

Wow! What a line-up. Literally.
I thought Grover Norquist went to prison. In 2006, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee released e-mails showing Jack Abramhoff, Ralph Reed, and Grover Norquist laundered cash which they “strong-armed” from the Indian Casinos…Even John McCain stated these 3 con-men exploited the laws intended to promote charitable work.

I would like to hear Phyllis Schlafly criticize American women soldiers in Iraq…”Women in combat are a hazard to other people around them. They aren’t tall enough to see out of trucks and not strong enough to carry their buddies off the battlefields…”

But my favorite Schlaflyism..
“By getting married, women consent to sex and can’t be raped”. Yeee Haaa!

— Garrison
8:32 am June 5th, 2009

Garrison,

Quotations are used to denote something someone has said or written. Would you please provide a reference? i.e. an audio, or written transcript from a reliable source.

Even if she made those statements; I’d be interested in what she said prior to and after those statements.

— The Truth
11:16 am June 5th, 2009

Ah, jeez. GARRISON with the tired, old slanders and political inaccuracies.

Again.

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— BobZ.
11:18 am June 5th, 2009

The report that 2812 dead voters voted in Minnesota’s November election is grossly inaccurate. The FACT is that 2812 dead voters were found on the voter rolls. The best estimate of the number of dead vaoters who actually cast a vote is less than 10 (but that is too many).

I really wish I could cite the article, but I have read hundreds of “Minnesota Election” stories and simply cannot remember where I read that extremely pertinent detail.

I know that dilutes the outrage but the truth really is more important than scoring points.

— Michael K
12:15 pm June 5th, 2009

Truth and Ah geez….Do either of you know how to use the internet?

— Garrison
12:37 pm June 5th, 2009

Michael K.—

While you are “looking” for your “facts”, here is some I found:
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Mark Ritchie is so concerned that all votes be counted, he’s gone out of his way to ensure even dead voters’ ballots were among those counted on behalf of Franken.
Posted by James Richardson (Profile)

Thursday, June 4th at 10:50AM EDT
A review of Minnesota’s statewide database of registered voters revealed at least 2,812 deceased individuals voted in last November’s general election, according to a new report by the “traditional values” advocacy group Minnesota Majority.

After obtaining the list of voters who participated in November’s election, the group hired an independent firm who specializes in “death suppression” for direct mailing lists to review the data. The process, which involved matching names and addresses to state death records, bore troubling results.

According to Minnesota statute 201.13, the commissioner of health is to report monthly the name, address, date of birth, and county of residence of voting-age deceased residents to the secretary of state.

Presumably the commissioner of health would not issue incomplete reports (read: no motive), the blame then falls elsewhere – namely, at the feet of Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, whose partisan leanings and curious alliance with vote fraud-magnet ACORN are becoming more salient by the day.

Deputy Secretary of State Jim Gelbmann argues the discrepancies unearthed by the group are merely the result of election workers updating the voter database with faulty information and were not instance of voter fraud.

“I would venture—put my reputation on—the fact that there are very few, if any, people impersonating dead people. You’re going to have human error,” he admitted.

But Jeff Davis, president of Minnesota Majority, believes the situation to be far less benign – and legal – than the Ritchie’s staff is willing to admit.

“The first problem with their explanation is that there should not even be deceased individuals on the voter rolls. The second problem with the secretary of state’s explanation is that it basically acknowledges the lack of controls in the way in which voter history updates are being captured and recorded,” he said. Adding, “If the proper controls had been in place, this situation would not have occurred.”

Whether the peculiar case of 2,800+ deceased individuals casting ballots is a matter of fraud, human error, or resurrection is of little importance at the moment.

According to current recount totals, Democrat Al Franken leads Republican Norm Coleman by a mere 312 votes. If the Minnesota Supreme Court rules in favor of Coleman later this month, which most analysts agree won’t be the case, an additional 4,000 votes will be added to the mix.

When you’re down by such a slim margin, like Team Coleman knows all too well, every vote counts. When you live in a democracy, the very hallmark of which is fair and free elections, every vote should count. But when you live in Minnesota, where the chief election officer is a hyper-partisan louse, “every” vote counts, even after you’re dead!
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Now maybe you can find yours…we’ll be waiting.

— dr-debunk
1:32 pm June 5th, 2009

Debunk…How did you feel about the “hanging chad” in 2000.
All’s fair when your candidate wins?
Too bad Coleman doesn’t have the humility of an Al Gore.

— Garrison
3:34 pm June 5th, 2009

Garrison—

You have revealed yourself as a pedantic pedagogue…stop bothering me with your opprobrious paroxysms…

— dr-debunk
3:57 pm June 5th, 2009

You squibble 13 paragraphs of babble and ask others to stop bothering you?

— Garrison
9:23 am June 8th, 2009

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