Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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MN Secretary of State Bashes Coleman
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Posted by:
Amanda Carpenter at
4:21 PM
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Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie (D.) ironically accused incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman of trying to "win at any price" on MSNBC earlier this afternoon.
“Their goal is to win at any price," Ritchie said of the Coleman campaign. "They’ve invested millions and millions of dollars. We consider this part of the normal political rhetoric. We're used to the political rhetoric being amped up. That’s part of their job — to win at any price.”
These are highly inflammatory remarks from Ritchie, the official tasked with overseeing the contentious recount between Coleman and his Democratic challenger, comedian-turned-candidate Norm Coleman.
As Secretary of State, Ritchie has rebuffed attempts to ensure integrity in the election process, calling Republican concerns about ACORN "desperate." This may be because before becoming Secretary, Ritchie actively worked with ACORN to increase voter registrations through a liberally-leaning umbrella group.
Ritchie has also been unwilling investigate a batch of 32 absentee ballots an election worker "found" in the trunk of her car. Every one of them were marked for Franken.
Coleman is currently asking that voting documents ("tapes") be audited from voting machines that were used on Election Day. Ritchie hasn't decided yet if that will be done. Perhaps he thinks keeping the elections clean is too high of a "price" to pay this cycle.
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listen to NPR, ride the bus, and dream of universal health care. |
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Speaking of the 32 car ballots - if anyone would like to find the odds of that happening as a truly random event, there's a tool that you can use to calculate the odds yourself:
http://tinyurl.com/6z4bxc
The post provides a bit of a fun background discussion into the statistics and the nature of what it takes to get really unlikely results before getting into the more practical application of applying that kind of math to the Minnesota senate race. |
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that Sen. Colman already won.
Now I realize that he has two things against him:
1. Minn law stating recount when the difference is < x%
2. Democrats finding magical mysterious ballots in trunks of cars...
Can only imagine this news story would be all over every front page in the MSM if the parties were reversed. |
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(The Minn. Senate seat) "would've been stolen by the incumbents"(the Repubs)......
Are you kidding me??????
The Dems are the ones "finding ballots in employees cars"(all went for Franken)?????
And the Dems are "franchise owners" of ACORN!!!
Puh-leeze!! |
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...is why cloning is bad.
...Sorry, couldn't help making a joke about the typo. |
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Something seems amiss with the phrase "recount between Coleman and his Democratic challenger, comedian-turned-candidate Norm Coleman". I mean, yes, sometimes the GOP has been its own worst enemy, but I never realized that was true so literally...... |
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will win the election no matter how much cheating he has to do...The odds are stacked in his favor,..the thug pols will see to it. |
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Ginger, since when does a senator "own" a seat in the senate? They may "earn" the seat but "own" it? Never! Your choice of words speaks volumes about your obvious contempt for the Constitution and fair, unsullied elections.
Have you ever heard a Repub SoS or AG make such inflammatory remarks during a recount? Didn't think so. |
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They come with cannons, an army, legal dream team, media in tow, and ready to squash the
opposition.....the GOP comes with a meek, well,
you better check this or we'll hold our breath!
Wake up.
They are going to win this in the recount
unless Coleman gets his act together now.
He should be on every tv blasting their tactics,
asking for massive donations to fight it, and
ready to battle it presuming they'll create
enough Franken ballots to steal it outright.
GOP, wake up, you're in a battle right now
for 2010 and 2012. The Dems did not stop the
campaign. The GOP did. Get it going. |
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