Minnesota Dem Chairman: Coleman’s Talk About Do-Over Election “Shameless Scheme”

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Brian Melendez, the state Democratic chairman in Minnesota, just gave TPM this statement in response to Norm Coleman’s comments that a do-over election could be necessary:

Former Senator Coleman’s sudden interest in a “do-over” election is astonishing both for its ignorance of the law and for its ignorance of political reality — or at least his feigned ignorance. First, the people of Minnesota went to the polls in November and elected a new United States senator; it’s bad enough that Norm Coleman has been aggressively trying to disenfranchise so many of them throughout the recount and now during his election-contest trial, but now he wants to disenfranchise all of them.

Norm Coleman is a lawyer and he knows better. I hope that Governor Pawlenty will quickly disown Coleman’s shameless scheme for a back-door appointment that will get him back the seat that he couldn’t hold on to in a free and fair election.

Coleman has every right under the law to contest his recount loss, but he and his spinmeisters need to show some respect to Minnesotans’ intelligence by acknowledging the fairness of our justice system and not fabricating scenarios that disregard Minnesota law.

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