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Norm Coleman
Minnesota's Senior
Senator
'These
conservative kids don't fuck or get high like we do'
(Norm Coleman, 1969)
Vets videos
Votevets
anti-Coleman video with Maj. Gen Batiste
Vets pro-Coleman video
Iraq
Media Matters -- Coleman misrepresents General accounting Office
data to New York Times.
American United for Change (July 2007).
Coleman and the war, Aug 30, 2007.
Coleman silent on war (Aug. 28, 2007).
“Norm’s
Neighbors Against the War” July 2007.
May 8: 2007:
| Senator Norm Coleman,
, a Minnesota Republican facing a
potentially tough re-election fight, also
pointed to early fall as a likely turning
point in the debate. “There is a sense and a
reality that there is a lot we have to see
by September,” he said. |
Galloway
Galloway
on Coleman.
Jude
Wanninski on Coleman.
Flip Flop
Norm
Coleman Weasel meter: links to many different stories.
Coleman's opportunistic history.
Oil for food / UN
Critique
of Coleman's oil-for-food demagoguery
Denounces UN
internet governance report
Coleman's UN Witchhunt
Coleman in the Wall Street Journal: "Digital Munich"
Powerline on Coleman's "Digital Munich"
Coleman's Wall Street Journal "Kofi Annan must go" op-ed.
Garrison Keillor on Norm
Coleman
(Nov. 2002)
Empty victory for a hollow man
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Norm Coleman won Minnesota because he was
well-financed and well-packaged. Norm is a slick retail campaigner,
the grabbiest and touchingest and feelingest politician in Minnesota
history, a hugger and baby-kisser, and he's a genuine boomer
candidate who reinvents himself at will. The guy is a Brooklyn boy
who became a left-wing student radical at Hofstra University with
hair down to his shoulders, organized antiwar marches, said vile
things about Richard Nixon, etc.....
Norm got a free ride from the press. St. Paul
is a small town and anybody who hangs around the St. Paul Grill
knows about Norm's habits. Everyone knows that his family situation
is, shall we say, very interesting, but nobody bothered to ask about
it, least of all the religious people in the Republican Party. They
made their peace with hypocrisy long ago. |
Keillor again, a week later
| The old GOP of
fiscal responsibility and principled
conservatism and bedrock Main Street values
is gone, my dear, and something cynical has
taken its place. Thus the use of Iraq as an
election ploy, openly, brazenly, from the
president and Karl Rove all the way down to
Norman Coleman, who came within an inch of
accusing Wellstone of being an agent of al-Qaida.
To do that one day and then, two days later,
to feign grief and claim the dead
Wellstone's mantle and carry on his "passion
and commitment" is simply too much for a
decent person to stomach. |
Keillor, Coleman and the press
| On Friday,
November 1, gossip columnist Cheryl Johnson
wrote a short piece detailing an angry phone
call that Norm Coleman and his wife Laurie
made to Pat Kessler after he ran a profile
about the couple on WCCO. During a segment
of video showing the Coleman family hanging
out in the kitchen, Kessler reported,
"This Saturday morning Laurie is visiting
from California where she is working on a
television series." Neither the candidate
nor his wife took kindly to the term
"visiting," and berated the reporter for
what they thought was a blatant attempt to
embarrass them. "[Laurie] was just very
upset because she thought it was, and she
said this, a devious political shot...A way
to paint their marriage as something that it
wasn't," Kessler told C.J. |
Coleman's fundraising
As a Republican in a liberal state, Coleman is
one of the Republican party's golden boys. In Minnesota George
Bush hurts more than he helps, but he was still able to sneak into
town for a secret fundraiser.
Big money shows up at the last minute
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So, Norm Coleman is getting all kinds of help these days. First,
a well-heeled national Republican PAC calling itself Americans for
Job Security has swooped in to spend $1 million on an advertising
blitz over the last two weeks of the Minnesota Senate race, which
will be more money than any of the other main participants (the
Wellstone and Coleman campaigns, and the state Democratic and
Republican parties) had been planning on spending.
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Secret Bush fundraiser, Aug 7, 2007 (includes video)
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Senator Norm
Coleman's campaign no doubt received a
financial boosrom a presidential
fundraiser Tuesday. And yet the media
wasn't allowed to photograph Sen.
Coleman with President Bush in Eden
Prairie.
"President Bush is not very popular with
the swing voters, so Coleman has to
distance himself," Hamline University's
David Schultz told KARE 11.
"Coleman has sort of a strange albatross
around him here. He needs Bush for
fundraising but at the same time he has
to not look like he's that close to him,
and doesn't want to appear next to him."
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Coleman's Bush fundraiser
Franken on
Bush's Coleman fundraiser (video)
Labor
Coleman opposes Employees Free Choice Act
| When the
workers asked Sen. Coleman to support the
Employee Free Choice Act, the senator said
he could not support the proposed law, which
would strengthen workers’ rights to form and
join unions. |
Sinking approval
Coleman's 43% approval rating, July, 2007
| Continuing a
downward trend since early this year, Sen.
Norm Coleman's approval rating has sunk to
43 percent, according to
SurveyUSA tracking polls. 48 percent of
Minnesotans now disapprove of the job
Coleman is doing as senator. |
Pharma
Coleman, big pharma, Giuliani, and Kerik
Mor on Coleman and big pharma
Bolton
Coleman fully supports Bolton.
Immigration
Coleman's
article on immigration in the far-right magazine "Human Events"
Paulose
Coleman falsely denies that he had supported Paulose.
Coleman the Stoner
Coleman has achieved great success despite his
early use
of brain-damaging drugs. Let him be an inspiration to all of us.
'These
conservative kids don't fuck or get high like we do' (Photo at
top of page).
They would cleverly tape their doors shut and burn incense to hide
the smell, and Coleman once smoked pot while standing on the roof of
a campus building during a protest.
Coleman, Vitter and Craig
Coleman took a much
harder line on Senator Craig of Idaho
than he did in the case of Senator Vitter of Louisiana,
a heterosexual scumbag caught consorting with
prostitutes.
In an interview with Scott Hennen this morning on WDAY, Senator
Norm Coleman called Senator Craig's behavior "disgusting" and called
for his resignation. (Audio).
Video
Coleman said Craig `"pled guilty to a crime
involving conduct unbecoming a senator. He should
resign."
Why Craig and not Vitter?
Norm Coleman Senior
Coleman has also been more indulgent
to his own father than he is to poor Senator Craig,
probably because his father (unlike the Senator) is a
studly guy.
Lewd and disorderly conduct
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A report in this morning's Roll Call shows that Norm Coleman,
Sr., the father of Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman, was
arrested after he was caught having sex in public in St. Paul,
Minnesota, RAW STORY has learned.
Coleman's father was
arrested for lewd and disorderly conduct after he was
found having sex outside a pizzeria with 38-year old
Patrizia Marie Schrag. Norm Coleman, Sr., is 81 years
old.....
Senator Coleman
released a statement declaring “I love my
father dearly. I do not condone his actions
or behavior, and I am deeply disturbed by
what I have learned. He clearly has some
issues that need to be dealt with, and I
will encourage him to seek the necessary
help.”
Coleman, Sr., was a
constant presence during his son's 2002
Senate campaign.... A November 3, 2002
article in Minnesota's Star Tribune reported
"Coleman's father, Norman Sr., travels with
his son these days, campaigning. The mayor
holds him up as a hero, a veteran of the
Normandy invasion and the Battle of the
Bulge. "He's the smartest man I know,"
Coleman said." |
Research resources
Norm Coleman
Wikipedia Article
A quick, convenient resource, but
ever-changing and sometimes unreliable.
Open Secrets
Details Coleman's funding.
Coleman
VoteSmart Page:
Over the course of
several weeks in 2002, this candidate
repeatedly refused requests by citizens in
the candidate's own state, leaders of both
major political parties, major news
organizations and Project Vote Smart staff
to provide voters with essential issue
information in the 2002 National Political
Awareness Test.
This candidate would not provide this
information to citizens in the candidate's
own state - no matter who asked them, when
they were asked or how they were asked. |
Bills sponsored by Coleman
Sourcewatch page on Coleman:
This seems to be an accurate, non partisan source
but I don't know much about it. Links to a lot of other resources.
Govtrack.us:
A lot of useful information about committee
memberships, recent votes, and bills sponsored:
Washington Post report on Coleman's voting record
New York Times articles on Norm Coleman
Minneapolis Star-Tribune on Norm Coleman
Star-Tribune articles during the last two months on Norm Coleman.
Star-Tribune's "Politically Connected" on Coleman:
Huffington Post articles on Coleman.
Official Sources
Official
bio Official U.S. Senate
Site Official
campaign site
Senate Republican Conference data on Coleman
Contact Senator Coleman
I am emersonj at
gmail dot com
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