Gov.Pawlenty: "Once the Minnesota Supreme Court rules I will follow their direction in the law"
By John Amato Thursday May 21, 2009 11:30am
Gov. Tim Pawlenty joined Neil Cavuto and talked up his next move in the Franken/Loserman election as the Minnesota State Supreme Court is getting ready to rule next month. Cavuto is all hot and bothered because bloggers and the unions are pushing Pawlenty to certify Franken. Pawlenty responded that Neil should name his show "Between a rock and a hard place." I have no idea what that means, but if I were to offer a guess, I'd say that he knows the court will rule in favor of Franken, but his Republican buddies want him to stall it for all of eternity. Unfortunately for Pawlenty, the Minnesota voters want this thing settled.
Pawlenty: Once the Minnesota Supreme Court rules I will follow their direction in the law in that regard and there's lots of different scenarios of where it could go from there. For example, our Minnesota Supreme Court could rule that the case has to be remanded down to a lower court for ballot opening and further recounting, they still have a variety of theories. If they do that, again The state election certificate cannot be issued until the state court process is complete. That's what our law says and I will follow the law in that regard.
Cavuto: There are also these reports from a number of powerful Republicans in your state that are telling Norm Coleman, you put up a good fight, but give it a rest, step down.
Pawlenty: Well, I'm not privy to those discussions or what Norm Coleman is going to do after the Supreme Court decision so that ball is in his court or maybe in Al Franken's court, if Al Franken loses. The same questions or pressures are going to be placed on him...
Cavuto: I think what they are saying is do it now, don't wait for this decision, just do it now.
Pawlenty is trying to tell us he hasn't heard from Republicans in his state about this election? Jesus... And Loserman, do it now. Yeah baby, do it now. Concede and move on.
To me it appears that Pawlenty will not allow his decision to be made by the Supreme Court led by John Roberts, and we should keep pushing him on that...
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Gah!
I can't believe this is STILL draggin on!
that Coleman will lose at the MSSC and Ginsberg will immediately find a rightwing Bushie Fed Judge* who will issue a stay of Certification pending appeals to the USSC, who will hear the case and render a decision in the fall.
(I hope I'm wrong)
*There are plenty of them out there, thanks in part to Dems voting for them (in the spirit of bipartisanship, of course). It's one of the hidden legacies of the Bush years that will haunt us for decades to come.
I believe he said it would be up to the Minnesota Supreme Court. He said he would follow their direction.
Why let anything like the law get in the way of a crooked Reslug like Coleman.
I think the coleman camp should be fined for every day Minnesota lacks a senator, at the cost they would've paid into a senator's salary.
coleman has no particular right to the office, but the Constitution says each state is to have two, and he's prevented that.
Let's raise a million people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
www.normdollar.com
A dollar a day to Make Norm Coleman Go AWAY.
This process has followed the rule of MN law throughout. Franken didn't listen to calls for conceding prior to a recount, and Coleman hasn't listened to calls for conceding prior to a MN Supreme Court decision. For all of you that are impatient and calling for Coleman to concede, please remain patient. Now that Pawlenty has stated he will abide by the Supreme Court ruling, we can be fairly certain that if Franken is given the election Pawlenty will sign the election certificate.
Sorry, knowing how low these repig slugs will go, I can easily see Pawlenty coming up with some lame excuse why he won't certify it.
You just can't trust repigs to do the right thing, the ethical thing, or the lawful thing, no matter WHAT the issues/circumstances are.
Bet on it: Pawlenty will go back on this very word for some bullshit reason.
Such a brazen move of hypocrisy would be political suicide for him in MN.
Maybe so, but the neocons who run the repig party don't care about him - they just want to delay Franken's seating as long as possible.
They will undoubtedly find another right-wing hack to follow in Pawlenty's footsteps.
end his own career. By abiding by MNSC decision, if Franken is choosen the victor, Pawlenty will score big political points that will increase his reelection for governor bid. Most MN's want Coleman to concede. It would be a lose-lose situation for him to attempt to not sign the certificate at that point. Whether the RNCC wants that or not, I don't see it swaying Pawlenty. But, who's to say. Again, we'll see.
I hope you're right.
the repuke party. Winning at all costs is all that matters. Whatever values or ideals the repigs claimed to have had at one time (although besides Eisenhower it's mostly a fiction) are nonexistent.
Pawlenty's own political future is at stake if he ignores the will of the Minnesota voters and lets this go before the 5 election throwing conservative activist judges on the Supreme Court. It would be politcal suicide for him to ignore the Minn court and the will of the people of Minnesota who clearly want Franken seated. Pawlenty doesn't give a shit about fair play and democracy, it will be about his won hide as to why he will eventually certify Franken. Minnesota is a moderate state, Pawlenty extending this much longer will be at his own demise in the next election.
Why keep pretending that anyone but delusional partisan screwballs really gives a fart in a high wind about which warmongering empty suit gets to represent Minnesota's corporate elite? Trying to paint either of these monkeys as the "choice of the people" is as blatantly farcical as trying to sell the stoner UFO cultists in Maimi as "terrorists." If the choice is between D-AL-C Franken or Norm McBush Pawlenty, I'll take vanilla.
...get a room, already...
you're seriously mental!
Who would believe any word from that snot-nosed jerk!
....wonder why we hate them. There will be a reckoning.
If the past is any indication, no, there probably won't.
All this tells me is that Pawlenty has received coded assurances that the SCOTUS justice responsible for the Eighth Circuit will immediately issue a stay in order to make time to find three other justices to agree to hear the case. Once they do that, they can dilly-dally until the end of the current (SCOTUS) session, robbing MN of its rightful representation, and no one can do a damn thing.
Anyone care to guess which justice is in charge of the Eighth? It ain't pretty.
Now if the Governor would just put that in writing, after the Supreme Court of Mn. decides .....
I think they morphed him with Kermit the Frog to get that tone. The little things that Fox News does, to drive home a point are amazing. I'm sure it's no accident.
"To me it appears that Pawlenty will not allow his decision to be made by the Supreme Court led by John Roberts"
Never turn your back on a weasel.
Carps
versus the right of the people to a fair election."
SINCE WHEN? Since it's a REPUBLICAN challenging?
Remember when Gore was challenging? It was "Oh, no, we can't go a minute longer without a leader."
Now, it's "Oh, it's only another couple months or so." And "we need to let the process take its course."
The Minnesota legislature closed session this week, Timmy says he will veto the budget bill, will _not_ call a special session and will LINE ITEM VETO THE BUDGET INTO BALANCE BY HIMSELF.
Dictator Timmy. 'Lil Dubya and his executive budgetary signing statements. Legal to single-handedly massage a state budget to his Rethug priorities? Who knows, but it should be interesting.
to viewing the epitomy of irrational fear. No wonder the republicans constantly try to make us fearful. Look at how they all march in goose-step on this one!
Maybe we can somehow thrust grief-loss counseling to get them over the hump of anger to acceptance.
Naw, that only works with humans. What we have in the republicans is the missing link. We don't need any more archealogical diggings.
END THIS! Al Franken won the election. And anyone who prolongs this nonsense should be voted out of office.
Pawlenty saying he will abide by the Supreme Court's decision seems to be hiding some thing. Is there a silent BUT after his comment.
This thing is going to drag out until after July, isn't it?
There was absolutely no reason for Franken to concede before there was a recount! A recount is done in a different way than the original count and will clarify some votes that weren't necessarily picked up properly by the electronic equipment used in the original count.
Did anyone else pick up on Pawlenty's comment that he will abide by the law "in this regard"? Why was "in this regard" thrown in. This makes me think that there are other "regards" where he's been willing to ignore the law in this situation. Just me?
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