Pawlenty Endorses Romney

Not to be outdone, T-Paw has endorsed Mitt Romney.

Vanquished Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty endorsed contender Mitt Romney on Monday, calling the former Massachusetts governor the candidate who “possesses the unique qualifications to confront our severe economic predicament.”

ACORN In New York: Assisting “Pimp” And “Prostitute” To Break The Law

In yet another “failed” attempt to “smear” ACORN, conservative filmmakers/investigators expose another ACORN office, this time in Brooklyn, New York. Here’s the “doctored” video:

Al Franken Finally Is A U.S. Senator In Spite Of Tax Dodging And Voter Fraud Allegations

Al Franken of Minnesota can now be called “Senator Franken”. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Franken finally won the election, an election that was mired in charges of voter fraud on the part of the Franken campaign [Article – Minnesota Supreme Court declares Franken winner of Senate race].

Former comedian Franken was a Saturday Night Live cast member and script writer. He was also a commentator on the irrelevant “progressive” radio talk show, “Air America Radio”. Franken is no stranger to controversy, which should make him one of the darlings of the Democrat party. He has been known to speak and act in a very bizarre manner and to have displayed flashes of a hair-trigger temper [Article – 1. Al Franken’s Blue Ball | 2. Al Franken’s Lies | 3. RNLA Director Thielen: Minn. Voters Didn’t Elect Al Franken | 4. Mischief in Minnesota?].

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Minnesota Recount Unconstitutional

That’s the argument of a former associate dean of the University of Minnesota Law School and current professor of law at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis (so I’d say he knows something about Minnesota laws):

Consider the inconsistencies: One county “found” 100 new votes for Mr. Franken, due to an asserted clerical error. Decision? Add them. Ramsey County (St. Paul) ended up with 177 more votes than were recorded election day. Decision? Count them. Hennepin County (Minneapolis, where I voted — once, to my knowledge) came up with 133 fewer votes than were recorded by the machines. Decision? Go with the machines’ tally. All told, the recount in 25 precincts ended up producing more votes than voters who signed in that day.

Then there’s Minnesota’s (first, so far) state Supreme Court decision, Coleman v. Ritchie, decided by a vote of 3-2 on Dec. 18. (Two justices recused themselves because they were members of the state canvassing board.) While not as bad as Florida’s interventions, the Minnesota Supreme Court ordered local boards to count some previously excluded absentee ballots but not others. Astonishingly, the court left the decision as to which votes to count to the two competing campaigns and forbade local election officials to correct errors on their own.

If Messrs. Franken and Coleman agreed, an absentee ballot could be counted. Either campaign could veto a vote. Dean Barkley of the Independence Party, who ran third, was not included in this process.

Thus, citizens’ right to vote — the right to vote! — was made subject to political parties’ gaming strategies. Insiders agree that Mr. Franken’s team played a far more savvy game than Mr. Coleman’s. The margin of Mr. Franken’s current lead is partly the product of a successful what’s-mine-is-mine-what’s-yours-is-vetoed strategy, and of the Coleman team’s failure to counter it.

The process is not over yet, since the state court decision in effect kicked the can down the road. The candidates can revisit these issues by contesting the legal validity of the election under state law — which Mr. Coleman’s team did last week.

But as matters stand now, the Minnesota recount is a legal train wreck. The result, a narrow Franken lead, is plainly invalid. Just as in Bush v. Gore, the recount has involved “unequal evaluation of ballots in several respect” and failed to provide “minimal procedural safeguards” of equal treatment of all ballots. Legally, it does not matter which candidate benefited from all these differences in treatment. (Mr. Franken did.) The different treatment makes the results not only unreliable (and suspicious), but unconstitutional.

Let’s hope that justice prevails… I don’t care if Franken wins fairly, but not with tricks like those above.

Al Franken is Contesting THIS Ballot

Al Franken is contesting this ballot.

Any reasonably intelligent orangutan can see that this is meant to be a vote for Coleman. So why can’t Al Franken seem to grasp that?

h/t: Whistleblower.