Another local newspaper in Minnesota is calling upon Norm Coleman to concede, after having endorsed him in the 2008 election. This time, it’s the Bemidji Pioneer:
Sen. Coleman’s appeals were necessary and a legal part of the process. But at some point, incessant appeals serve no more than to obstruct the process than to guarantee justice. It’s not unlike the Death Row inmate who exhausts all his appeals, taking years, and reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. And how many cases does the high court acquit?
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The public perception at this point appears not to be one of letting Sen. Coleman fully seek redress of his legal grievances, but rather one of obstructing the Democrat-controlled Senate to prevent it from reaching that magic number of 60 votes. Adding Mr. Franken would mean 59 Democrat votes in the Senate. To continue to obstruct doesn’t bode well for Minnesota, nor for Sen. Coleman’s career, should he continue in politics.
Similar calls have come from at least two other papers that endorsed Coleman in 2008: The Albert Lea Tribune and the Worthington Daily Globe.
