Well, now we've seen everything; Norm Coleman's campaign, in a last-ditch effort to distract Minnesotans from Coleman's voting record and lobbyist ties, is now suing Al Franken's campaign for purportedly false advertising.
The campaign claims Franken violated the law in recent TV and radio ads by knowingly running false attacks against a political candidate running for office. The campaign says they will take appropriate civil and criminal sanctions against Franken.
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The Coleman campaign is focusing on recent ads since Oct. 25 and continuing through this week that claim Coleman is the fourth most corrupt senator in Congress. This claim comes from Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington (CREW), which the campaign calls a Democratic-partisan group closely tied to Franken.
According to the CREW report, Coleman received a "dishonorable mention" after the list of most corrupt members of Congress. Coleman is one of four Senators on the complete list, including the dishonorable mentions.
MN Publius notes that it isn't the first time Coleman has filed suit (ha ha ha) in a campaign.
Oddly enough, however, Coleman himself faced an unpleasant lawsuit at the time, filed against Coleman crony Nasser Kazeminy and implicating his wife Laurie:
According to Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan, the lawsuit, filed Tuesday and withdrawn Wednesday, alleged money was given to Laurie Coleman, the senator's wife, through the insurance company for which she works to help the Colemans' personal finances.
The claim was "simply false," Coleman said.
"The purpose of this stuff is to, at the 11th hour, throw something out there and see if it sticks," Coleman said. "There were some things that we believe were thrown in there for the purpose of influencing the campaign. It was withdrawn because the attorneys recognized that there were some things in there that weren't factual."
When pressed by reporters on whether his wife did, in fact, receive $75,000 from Minnesota businessman Nasser Kazeminy (one of the stars of Suitgate), Coleman bravely ran from reporters:
Once he had successfully evaded those pesky media people, it seems, Coleman decided that the best course of action was to throw up a bullshit suit of his own against Al Franken.
How noble.
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