Good Thursday morning Fellow Seekers,
Sen. Norm Coleman sponsored the appointment of U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose, who recently announced her resignation from that post after a very rocky tenure. He now acknowledges that her lack of experience or ability as a manager undermined her effectiveness, and that she did the right thing by resigning. But […]

Good Tuesday morning Fellow Seekers,
The Al Franken for Senate campaign put out a two-paragraph response yesterday afternoon to the Coleman campaign’s video attacking Franken for his changing positions on various aspects of the Iraq War. I promised yesterday to pass it along. Here’s the full text of the Franken rebuttal (it’s actually attributed to […]

Good Friday morning Fellow Seekers,
Pres. Bush’s nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to be attorney general is scheduled for a Judiciary Committee vote Tuesday. The nomination, which was considered a sure bet for confirmation before the committee hearings, has run into problems with several Democratic senators because Mukasey wouldn’t say whether he believes water-boarding is a […]

Good Monday noon, 
The first Star Tribune poll since the paper forced out long-time Minnesota Poll director, Rob Daves, is full of bad news for the three major U.S. Senate candidates.
Norm Coleman’s approval rating (45%) is at a level (anything below 50 is considered this level) that paints a big V for vulnerable on the chest of any […]

Sen. Norm Coleman tells esteemed colleague Fred Frommer of the Associated Press that he will discuss the latest set of allegations about Rachel Paulose, U.S. attorney for Minnesota, with Judge Michael Mukasey, Pres. Bush’s nominee to be the new attorney general.
Coleman says he wants to make sure the allegations that Paulose mishandled classified material, retaliated […]

This post replaces the hasty one I threw together at noon, immediately after hanging up from a 45-minute conference call between Sen. Norm Coleman and Minnesota reporters about his weekend trip to Iraq.
During the call, Coleman endorsed Sen. John Warner’s recent proposal to bring 5,000 U.S. troops home by Christmas. That gesture is designed to […]