Coleman: Dems Broke Deal

[struggle4progress]

Source: KEYC

January 9, 2009 at 2:41pm

Former senator Norm Coleman ... says .. Harry Reid backed out of an agreement to let his staff wrap up so-called 'constituent cases.'Coleman said today that Reid had initially agreed to let his staffers take 60 days to wrap up 400 open cases ...

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Coleman: Limbo hurts constituents
By KEVIN DIAZ, Star Tribune
Last update: January 9, 2009 - 9:39 PM

WASHINGTON - ... Jim Manley, spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said there was no such deal and that Democrats hands are tied because Coleman's Senate term ended last Saturday.

Coleman has sought to let his staff work on some 400 remaining constituent cases while he challenges the U.S. Senate recount in Minnesota, in which Democrat Al Franken had a 225-vote advantage. The legal contest is expected to last several months.

Senate Democrats forced Coleman to shut down his office on Monday, the same day the state Canvassing Board certified Franken the top vote-getter in the election. Coleman's Senate website has been frozen, and the nameplate on his office has been removed.

Normally, departing senators use the two months between Election Day and the end of their terms on Jan. 3 to finish up constituent work ...

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/37353454.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsA

Is Normie havin flashbacks from his wasted youth?

[Jim Sagle]

1. A bum's rush end to a bum career.

[Thor_MN]

2. Gee, Norm, why don't you concede and let Al's staff take over?

Your lack of an exit strategy is telling, and is what is hurting the people with open cases. Face it, you lost, and the fact that you did not prepare for that possibility shows how unsuited you are for public office. If you were truely concerned about anything other than trying to save your job (good luck in trying finding a new one in this economy you helped to create) you would step aside and let the adults finish the job you failed to complete.

[myrna minx]

19. That is exactly what I was thinking,

although you stated it better than I ever could, and without the expletives I would have added.

[Bjorn Against]

3. Your consituents have told you they don't want your "services" anymore Norm.

[No Elephants]

4. Who is going to take Coleman's word? Why are 400 cases still sitting there anyway?

[atreides1]

21. He was busy

Refinancing his house.:D

[surrealAmerican]

26. I guess these 400 cases just weren't ...

... important enough to take care of when he was senator. He's grasping at straws.

[ReadTomPaine]

5. "Perhaps you think you're being treated unfairly"

[xxqqqzme]

6. jeebus, is normie whining AGAIN??

400 cases? He should have been 'wrapping' those up after 11/4 just in case he LOST. Guess normie was never a boy scout.

[CatWoman]

7. in 2000, during the recount, republicans marched on the VEEP's

house, demanding that Al Gore get out of "Dick Cheney's House".

Norm was probably with them, or cheered them on.

He can go straight to hell.

[sandnsea]

8. His staff should have been doing constituent work

No reason they couldn't do it. They aren't supposed to have anything to do with the campaign.

[jobycom]

9. Wow, sucks to be him. Seriesly.

[w4rma]

10. Coleman is a disingenuous jerk. (nt)

[machI]

11. Aaah, poor baby

The Republicans don't rule the roost anymore, and he is crying about it.

Dick Cheney get the FVGK out, Joe Biden rules the Senate this year.

[Lasher]

12. Coleman sure has his nerve.

He's whining because he can't stay on as de facto Senator while he drags this out in court as long as he can. This is fun, I'm going to have to follow this more closely. Coleman really is taking this badly.

[depakid]

13. It's actually pretty pathetic

I doubt Paul Wellstone would have wanted to see this.

[Merlot]

25. "de facto Senator" yup that's it and I'm sure he thinks continuing this

will give him some "legitimacy" in holding onto the seat that is no longer his.

[rasputin1952]

14. What has his "staff" been doing since the election...

he had the 2 months to "wrap up" those "cases", his staff blew it, so, pass these cases on to the new Senator and his staff...I'm willing to bet thyey will be dealt with then.

Coleman...typical crybaby R...miserable little hatchet faced moran...he should just grow up.

[Odin2005]

15. SORE LOSER!!! n/t

[rpannier]

16. He had all that time after election day to do that work

Instead he stayed in MN.
I thought it was his lawyer and PR teams job to do the legwork in MN?

Give the paperwork to Sen Franken and let him take care of it -- or let the new Sr Sen from MN take care of it.

[Doctor_J]

17. Because if you'd gotten into the office you wouldn't have left

you and the rest of your piggish Repuke friends are amoral criminals, and your time is up.

[Joe Bacon]

18. Hey Norm--YOU LOST! GET OVER IT!

SORE LOSERMAN!

[LiberalFighter]

20. I wonder how many constituent cases there are normally. It seems pretty high.

I'm thinking this is more than just a few months worth of cases.



Normally, departing senators use the two months between Election Day and the end of their terms on Jan. 3 to finish up constituent work.

[dkofos]

22. What a freaking whiner,

[jwirr]

23. Cry baby coleman.

[Warren Stupidity]

24. departing senators use the two months between Election Day and the end of their terms

go fuck off Norm