Originally posted by deejjjaaaa
Just sat down at the computer, haven't seen any news or really talked to anyone today about events, so believe it or not, this post is the first I've heard.
And that explains something I saw today - riding bike to a lake/park with my little guy in the Burley, a woman was in her front yard playing with some girls, and setting up some sort of lemonade stand or something, and she was chanting something like "democracy works" and in a joking way the girls would answer back with that chant. She was wearing a "Team Franken" T-shirt. Now I know what that was all about.
Anyway, it's welcome news. Coleman was a bit of a joke. He's known as "Quimby" here in Minnesota, even among his staff. He was a Democrat, switched parties when his personal path to power was blocked by more qualified Democrats, became a Bush/Cheney tool when he thought they were ascendant, switched to bad mouthing them when they weren't, said Franken should "give up for the sake of the taxpayer" when he (Coleman) was ahead by ~200 votes after the first count, and then refused to concede himself after he fell behind after all the subsequent votes. (I guess the Taxpayer didn't matter when Coleman was behind.)
Awesome news. It's a good day in Minnesota. And the nation.
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