[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Sign here, Al

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Sign here, Al
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1231889804.shtml


   I won't begin to claim any understanding of Minnesota election law as
   possibly affected by Seventeenth Amendment. But it does bother me that
   a national office should sit vacant while teams of lawyers engage in a
   lengthy proceeding, months some predict. It seems like a bad precedent
   to set, if it hasn't been already. It seems like a process that could
   be abused in the future, candidates filing frivolous challenges even
   when the results are not as close as this.
   Maybe our laws will be changed or clarified for the next such
   occasion, but for now, I think we have to seat the recount winner, yes
   him, Al Franken, for the interim.
   But first, Mr. Franken (and Mr. Coleman) must sign or otherwise
   publicly vow to be bound - immediately, unconditionally - by the
   results of contest phase of this election. Just as happened to
   Governor Elmer Anderson in 1963, he may find himself turned out of
   office after only a few weeks into the term. I don't want to have to
   send Moose and Rocco to drag Franken out and down the Capitol steps
   should he lose.
   If I thought Majority Leader Harry Reid's word was any good, I'd make
   him sign, too.