For those that have not followed the Election Contest trial, Coleman started off unprepared. In fact, his first schedule had the trial not starting until mid-February and the ECC (Election Contest Court) denied his request. The first day of testimony was a complete rejection of Colemanâ??s evidence as it included â??partialâ? photo-copies with missing key data. From there, it continued to go downhill.

Colemanâ??s attorneys knows the clock starts to run once they file the notice of appeal â?¦ briefs have to be filled in a prescribed timeline and then Frankenâ??s team gets time for a response.
Also, even though they have the desire to appeal, they need to format the appeal based on the ECC ruling, so there is a little homework that needs to be done.

All that said, the only question that Coleman should be asking is â??Will a successful appeal alter the election results?â? Thus far, Frankenâ??s lead keeps growing and even if Coleman does prove that significant errors were made, will the outcome change â?¦ my answer is no. In fact, the ECC was harder on Franken in the review than Coleman (Coleman attorneys had agreed that more Franken votes should be considered than the ECC allowed.) Frankenâ??s attorneys should have pressed harder â?¦ essentially running up the score so that the lead would have been greater.

Well, aside from swallow their collective pride and actually make some compromises in the interest of the nation as a whole, but we all know how they feel about that idea. They would rather be the obstructionist party so that when elections come around, they can claim that they fought against every bad thing that might happen between now and then. Not hard to do when you are the party of “We’s agin it!” If that can’t be done, they’ll spin the good stuff into bad, and run against that.

I can see problems with either one of those courses but the people in Minnesota are now truly without representation and they ARE being taxed. It would seem the governor is in a position to take up the people’s cause but that hasn’t yielded anything of substance yet.

If I lived in Minnesota, I’d be tea baggin’ someone.

T. Hunt

A recount and the appeals delay the seating of a Senator, but are necessary and appropriate so we live with the delay… But…

Can you imagine what would happen if the three judge panel said “Oh, we’ve made our final decisons, but one of us had a vacation planed, so we’ll be presenting our opinions and conclusions in a week or so” …

Well what is happening right now is that Coleman is systematically adding ten days to the number of days this whole process will take. And now, we’re all talking about it. If he files for the appeal on day ten, it will be abundantly clear that his goal is to deprive the citizens of Minnesota of reresentation, or more exactly, he’s telling us thta it’s either him or on one, for as long as possible.

His career is over. Clearly, he’s made a deal with the RNC. He’s getting some bills paid somehow, and that is all that counts for him. So much for Democracy and all that other silly stuff our founding fathers gave their lives for.