Another Trial Opens Today, New Scopes Monkey Trial To Keep Franken Out Of The Senate

I use the monkey reference with Franken for 2 reasons, the first being his cameo appearance as a drunken baggage handler (which may not have been so far from reality for his future after this trial) in the classic comedy movie Trading Places, where he mocks a gorilla for about 30 seconds as most are aware,And number 2, because he basically has the looks, manners and class of a small gorilla, and I used to believe was way beneath the gravitas of a US senator, but sadly with the present class of morons now seated in the 111 congress, he actually fits right in with those bums but hopefully will be shown the door and kicked to the curb where garbage awaiting disposal belongs .

So the trial starting today is a continuation of the battle in Minnesota by Norm Coleman to have tens of thousands of absentee votes that have been somewhat inexplicably discounted as invalid and not to be counted reinstated and included in the totals. Votes which Coleman maintains will deliver him the senate seat that the Democratic establishment up there pulled right from under his feet since November 4th, with this seemingly flawed recount and double count process that took place thus far/

Pray this comes to an end soon and to Coleman's favor as one less democrat, especially Franken, in Washington can only be a good thing.

The end is near: Coleman-Franken trial commences:

Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. » "This is the end. Or so it would seem.

More than two months after election day, following a manual statewide recount, a trial to determine the winner of the U.S. Senate contest commenced at the Minnesota Supreme Court this afternoon. Norm Coleman is seeking to have the results certified by the state Canvassing Board, showing Al Franken with a 225-vote lead, tossed out. Franken wants to head to Washington.

With Coleman in attendance, attorneys for the two campaigns made their opening arguments before the three-judge panel charged with hearing the case. Joe Friedberg, representing the Coleman campaign, was up first. Displaying a folksy charm honed in dozens of jury trials over the years, Friedberg argued that the election process and ensuing recount were rife with errors that have distorted the outcome.

Most significant are 12,000 rejected absentee ballots, many of which the Coleman campaign believes should have been included in the vote tally. Friedberg argued that the panel must personally inspect the 12,000 ballots in order to determine which ones were improperly rejected. “This is going to be extremely tedious and extremely boring,” he allowed." continued

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