Here’s a pretty good expression of a class act: Al Gore, who won the popular vote for the presidency in 2000 and may well have won the electoral vote as well if the recount in Florida had been allowed to continue, concedes the win to Bush Junior in order to avoid a long drawn out battle that might divide the country and handicap any incoming administration in taking the reigns of government.
Fast forward to 2008 and the race for one of the senate seats in Minnesota. After a close election in which a recount was called for (and mandated I believe by state law), the Democrat Al Franken is shown to be the winner. But his Republican opponent Norm Coleman, instead of conceding,—even after the state voting officials, bi-partisan voting officials, etc. declare him the loser—vows to appeal the election results through the court system in a process that should take years. Leaving his state underrepresented in the Senate all that time (as it has been for months now).
It’s like the old Bible Story about King Solomon and the two women who claimed the same child as their own. When he said his verdict was to have the child cut in half, the real mother pleaded to let the other woman have the child in order to save it. Al Gore cared more about our country than his political ambitions or his party’s bid for power. Norm Coleman cares more about his political ambitions and his party’s bid for power than he does about his home state.
‘Nuff said.
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Al Gore fought all the way to the Supreme Court. Hopefully Norm Coleman will follow his lead. Both Gore and Franken attempted to disallow the count of military ballots. What is it with Democrats? The military protects their freedom yet Democrats repeatedly attempt to invalidate their vote.
NY GOP Moves To Block Franken-Style Vote Grab
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:19 PM
By: David A. Patten Article Font Size
New York Republicans Tuesday slapped the state’s Election Board with a wide-ranging injunction to prevent Minnesota-style snafus seen in the Al Franken-Norm Coleman race from disrupting the hard-fought 20th congressional district race in upstate New York.
One state election official tells Newsmax that Greene county election officials had planned to permit each precinct in the county to determine which absentee ballots should be opened and counted on Tuesday evening. That may have triggered the state GOP injunction.
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In Minnesota, allegations that different standards were used by different precincts in the state to determine which absentee ballots would be counted have played a central role in the election dispute that now appears likely to be appealed to the state Supreme Court, and possibly beyond.
The impound order requires that each county establish a central location where all absentee ballots will be counted. Moreover, all parties involved, including the campaigns, must be notified in advance of the opening and counting of absentee ballots. Sources tell Newsmax most of the 10 counties that comprise the 20th congressional district already follow that practice.
Al Franken is beloved by troops because he's gone to any where they were to make them laugh. I wouldn't count on the votes of the men and women in uniform to be in Coleman's favor
Al Franken is beloved by troops because he's gone to any where they were to make them laugh. I wouldn't count on the votes of the men and women in uniform to be in Coleman's favor
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