Norm Coleman Weasel Meter

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The Norm Coleman Weasel Meter's goal is to let Minnesotans know where Norm stands on the issues now that it seems likely that he plans on running for the Minnesota Governor's seat in 2010. A number of people have told me about rumors that he will be joining the race. Norm will be performing intricate and complicated political gymnastics to run away from his loyal support of George Bush and all the calamities of the previous administration.

I'll translate Norm-speakTM into standard American English. I'll track every vote, everything Norm says and everything his surrogates do. When circumstances dictate, I may turn on the Weasel Meter Alert SystemTM to alert you to Norm's lies, dissembling and obfuscations.

Norm Coleman is the Vietnam anti-war activist turned Iraq war cheerleader. The Democratic mayor of St. Paul who created few jobs for his city compared to the rest of the state. Norm saw the 1994 Newt Gingrich Contract-On-America sweep the Democrats out of power in Washington, DC and decided to switch teams. He ran for governor as a Republican and lost to a professional wrestler yet claimed that his issues won the day. He was trailing Sen. Paul Wellstone in the polls as the 2002 MN-SEN campaign ground toward election day when Wellstone died in a plane crash. He weaseled into office defeating former VP and former Sen. Walter Mondale who was enlisted at the last minute.

"I will be a 99% improvement over Paul Wellstone," Norm Coleman declared upon winning.

Norm Coleman was a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq and has a 100% voting record for President Bush's War. In addition, Norm provided no real oversight of the Iraq War. As Chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations he had the unique ability to investigate anything. Instead, he overlooked the incompetence and corruption of the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq. Whether it was torture, lack of armor for our troops, pallets of lost dollars or no-bid contracts, Norm was not interested in investigating.

Norm has been a part of the Republican destruction of our economy. During war-time, Norm has consistently voted for tax breaks for the wealthiest 1% of Americans while at the same time borrowing billions from the Chinese to pay for two wars. Norm supported a bankruptcy bill written by the credit card companies. Norm has written legislation to help bail out the banking industry from the subprime mortgage crisis on the backs of homeowners facing foreclosure. The Republicans have taken record-surpluses and in 8 years turned them into record deficits.

Norm voted for Medicare Part D and voted to deny Medicare the ability to negotiate drug prices. We all know that our seniors have suffered. Norm has opposed any real healthcare reform and this is not surprising. He is bankrolled by the health insurance industry, HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies -- he has done their bidding on healthcare reform.

On environmental issues and global climate change, Norm has been a steadfast friend of Big Coal, the Nuclear Power lobby and the polluters. Norm has a 26.8% rating from the League of Conservation Voters. Norm thinks clean coal and nuclear power should be our first two choices to combat global climate change. After repeatedly opposing increasing fuel efficiency standards, Norm has had an election year epiphany -- he voted for a higher fuel efficiency bill twice in 2007. Finally, he has no vision for building a green economy.

Norm talks about character and integrity a lot. Yet he has flip-flopped on 14 major issues and will have to run away from his record to win the MN-GOV race in 2010. Norm lies repeatedly about his own record and will say nearly anything if he thinks it will help him win.

Norm talks about incessantly about "bringing people together to get things done." Yet, he has been a polarizing and partisan politician, sticking to the Republican Party line and only doing what's best to advance Republican Party goals until he got scared in late 2006 about winning reelection (It's amazing what a Democratic landslide will do to a guy...).

Getting things done? You can count on Norm when it doesn't matter. Norm was the type of Senator you can count on for customer service, disaster relief (unless you live in New Orleans), and on non-controversial, smaller issues. After the 2006 election, Norm began moderating his conservative positions out of fear. For example, when Norm saw that healthcare was an important issue to Minnesotans, instead of working across the aisle, instead of bringing people together in the Senate to work for real healthcare reform, he held forums. He held these forums in small towns during the day so as to avoid ugly scenes where Minnesotans unhappy with his positions might show up.

Finally, Norm stood by as the Bush Administration invaded American's privacy through warrantless wiretapping, removed American's citizens right to habeas corpus (the right to challenge why you're being held), tortured prisoners of war and has co-authored a bill entitled the The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism and Prevention Act of 2007 (S.1959). The real name of the bill should be the Thought Crime bill. It is a vaguely worded proposal that would create a 21st century McCarthyism. Thankfully, the bill never got a hearing.

Click on an issue bar to find in-depth analysis of Norm's positions, votes and lies concerning the particular issue.

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Most Important Things You Need To Know About Norm Coleman

(Updated on 1/4/2009)

In October 2008, less than one month out from election day and Norm was embroiled in a controversy. It all started at Harper's Magazine. This latest controversy to distract Norm's campaign from their unrelenting attacks upon his opponent Al Franken involved a rich Republican donor, Neiman Marcus and gifts of clothing. Nasser Kazeminy apparently paid for Norm's shopping trips at Needless Markups. At this point, we didn't know how much Norm actually spent. We still don't although anonymous sources have indicated it was over $100,000.

Here's Norm's reaction at the time:


The Pioneer Press had a rough transcript:

"First of all, every gift I've ever received has been reported, ok. But the idea of responding to the things bloggers throw out is something I'm not going to get into. There are very awful things that are said about people on the blogs," he said.

Orrick then asked for a simple yes or no answer on the suit question.

"That's the answer, period. You can read it in the answer," he said.

The next day after this first broke, Cullen Sheehan (Norm's Campaign Manager) tried to hold a press conference on privatizing Social Security. Sheehan's answer became the zen moment of Norm's 2008 campaign:


Transcript here. The coverage of this went viral. Every blog and news outlet carried this story.



Norm had a small apartment scandal that hit the big time!

Here's the salient points.

  • Norm downsized from an $1700/mth multi-room apartment to a $600/mth basement apartment.
  • The house is owned by Jeff Larson, Republican activist and fundraiser.
  • Larson owns FLS Connect which Norm's campaign and PAC have paid over $1.5 million.
  • Norm employs Larson's wife though she's paid under her maiden name
  • Similar apartments in the area rent from $1100 to $1500/mth.
  • Norm and Larson claim that its a cramped apartment with no kitchen.
  • When the house was on the market in 2007, the apartment was listed as "a huge English basement with a media center, office space, gorgeous custom marble and oak bar plus an airy guest bedroom and bath…Simply Divine!”
  • Norm didn't pay two months rent this year and only did so when the reporter for the National Journal, Edward Pound, asked about it. Another month's rent was paid with a table and chairs. Yet this furniture is in his apartment.
  • Larson claims that he is homesteading the property, yet admitted in the Nat'l Journal article that he rents the whole house out.
  • Norm can only accept gifts from friends (Norm claims Larson is a long-time friend) of under $250.

CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) filed a ethics complaint against Norm.

The Senate gifts rule generally prohibits members and staff from accepting gifts, but has two exceptions under which they may accept lodging: if based on personal friendship or, as long as the giver is not a lobbyist or foreign agent, if the gift constitutes personal hospitality. Because the relationship between Sen. Coleman and Mr. Larson appears to be more business than personal, the gift would not be permitted under the “personal friendship” exception. Because Mr. Larson does not live in the townhouse, but rents it out to others, he is not hosting Sen. Coleman and “the personal hospitality” exception would not apply.

Here are the posts at mnblue on this topic:


Here's Norm's answer to a simple question asked him at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul about what he thought about the previous 8 years under George Bush:



(see the whole video here)



As Norm runs for Governor in the 2010 election, keep in mind that he'll say anything to win the seat. The first debate of the 2008 MN-SEN campaignbetween Al Franken and Norm Coleman took place in Redwood Falls, MN at the annual Farm Fest exemplifies Norm's propensity to lie.

Here are the lies he told:

  • Nancy Pelosi is responsible for high gas prices.
  • Norm tried to position himself as an environmentalist.
  • Norm tried to claim that he has been for maintaining and improving our transportation infrastructure.
  • Norm tried to claim he's for energy independence when he's supported Bush's energy policy.
  • Norm insinuated that he has supported renewable energy.
  • Norm repeated the Drill Here, Drill Now lie. More drilling won't lower gas prices.
  • Norm lies about Al's position on the gas tax. Al is not for a gas tax increase.
  • Norm claims that nuclear power is alternative energy.

Read the entirety of what Al Franken and Norm had to say here.



Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) is about as independent as a newborn babe. He takes money from the multinational corporations and does their bidding. From Big Oil to Big Polluters to War Profiteers to Big Pharma to indicted, corrupt politicians and their buddies. Of course, who did Norm represent in the US Senate? Who would he represent as Governor of MN?

It certainly isn't our interests. He's a reliable vote for Big oil, against tougher pollution standards and always votes for the hand-outs to his corporate donors. We know that Norm isn't particularly interested in rooting out Republican corruption as he has investigated only a few millions worth of the billions lost to corruption in Iraq.

Does Norm really have any ethical morals guiding his campaign other than the ends justify the means?

Norm's donors in the oil industry keep American addicted to oil -- there has been no movement toward dealing with peak oil under the Bush Administration. The polluters who contribute to Norm have made sure that their biggest advocate outside of the Senate and the White House is the head of the EPA. Our soldiers are eletrocuted and poisoned by the war profiteers who generously donate to Norm's campaign. 50 million Americans have no health care and the cost of prescription drugs increase faster than inflation thanks to the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies. Big Pharma have given Norm more money than any MN politician in history.


Nice!

Can you put this post in a permanent place in your side bar? It will be nice to easily reference

-Ag

Easy reference

Upper right hand corner!

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-Ag

$89,673.19 on trips

AMERICAN RADIOWORKS is the national documentary unit of American Public Media, documents that Normal Coleman spent $89,673.19 on trips for a rank of 46 out of 638 senators and representatives. Details here.

Sir, I implore you...

...stop being so mean to weasels. What have the little stoat-hearted fellows ever done to you that you compare them to Senator Coleman?

Good day!

Flip flop Norm

You mean to say Senator Sparkle Tooth is a flopper??

Lindy

Senate bribery

It is common knowledge that alaskan oilfield contractor Veco, now indictated on Federal charges, never "gave" money away sans strings. What did Minnesota promise in return for the campaign contributions?

Norm Coleman

I wan to say that posting Sen. Coleman's teeth is about as far fetched as you can get. So what if he had work done on his teeth.

I am not suprised. Liberals seem to have one thing in common. They will do and say anything to attack the character of the GOP party.

Go stand on a street corner..hold up your signs....and have a great day. The *right wingers" will be at work

init funny ...

How you notice the one thing that could be a more personalized attack when pretty much everything else is about his votes and statements and policy stances.

Minnesotan's need to look at

Minnesotan's need to look at where Norm's money comes from.
Records show most of his campaign was financed by the Health Care Corporations and unkown sources from New York and Florida. Basically he is a Neocon plant. Representive Kline is another example. The Neocons have found that their plants grow well in Minnesota which doesn't say much for Minnesota voters.

Minnesotan's need to look at

Minnesotan's need to look at where Norm's money comes from.
Records show most of his campaign was financed by the Health Care Corporations and unkown sources from New York and Florida. Basically he is a Neocon plant. Representive Kline is another example. The Neocons have found that their plants grow well in Minnesota which doesn't say much for Minnesota voters.

Right wing hypocrisy

All the right wingers are at work huh? Then why aren't YOU!

Isn't it amazing that after the last 7 years of smear tactics, the garbage that rolls out of Anne (Andy) Coulter, Limbaugh and O'reilly.....not to mention the character assassinations, the outright lies about opponents, the absolute garabage, filth, and vomit that has been spewd relentlessly by the "Christianized Republicans"....that they now scream like little girls who just found a big huge green bug on their dress when someone mentions Normy's new teeth?

At least those of us on the left use our time away from work to try and actually do something about the mess the Republicans have made of everything.

Republicans on the other hand can't spare the time....they're too busy trying to disengage their lips from Bush's behind.

Norm Coleman, dieted so Draft Board;too skinny for military

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Norm Coleman in 1971 seen at Hofstra University NY;
a pot-smoking hippie freak activist leader of the Students for a Democratic Society
[SDS] that helped take over buildings protesting the Vietnam War and lambasted our American Government who even dieted until his Military Draft Board wrote he was too skinny to go Vietnam.

Vote for a Patriot Jack Shepard or vote for a Hypocrite Norm Coleman?

A very healthy looking Norm Coleman with his new teeth, new hair color, and new nose;

but never a brave veteran. With graduation from Hofstra looming in 1971, Coleman faced the unhappy prospect of
being drafted. But the antiwar activist had better ideas he flunked his physical, after his crash diet. He was deemed too
skinny to fight by his local Draft Board.

Norm Coleman ran down the hall screaming
'First blood of the revolution!'“ To me and Tom Buggeln
Norm Coleman sounded completely crazy ” – Dr. Jack Shepard

Tom Buggeln remembers one particularly heated confrontation with Coleman after some antiwar students roughed up
an ally who was distributing literature on campus. "I went to him and I bitched about it, and we got into it," recalls
Buggeln, now a
sheriff's deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona. The dustup culminated in Buggeln slapping Coleman across the face,
giving him a bloody lip

Norm Coleman with his Freak Flag Long Hair

Everyone called him Norman. The Brooklyn-born kid.
With his freak flag fly.
With his the rail-thin physique and scraggly hair that extended halfway down hisback, he reminded everyone of the song “David Crosby refers to long hair as a freak flag in his song “Almost Cut My Hair, and I feel like letting my freak flag fly”

Norm Coleman was a striking presence at Hofstra University in the late '60s and early '70s. Carting a bullhorn around
campus, he'd regularly lecture students about the immorality of the President Nixon’s administration policies and the
Vietnam War.
Norm Coleman was the Abbie Hoffman of the sleepy Long Island commuter
college.

Tom Buggeln enrolled at Hofstra in 1968 after serving five years in the Navy, including a stint in Vietnam. He
resented what he viewed as the privileged college kids protesting the war and lambasting U.S. policies. Buggeln allied
himself with Young Americans for Freedom—a conservative campus group associated with William F.
Buckley—and frequently clashed with Coleman

Tom Buggeln remembers one particularly heated confrontation with Coleman after some antiwar students roughed up
an ally who was distributing literature on campus. "I went to him and I bitched about it, and we got into it," recalls
Buggeln, now a sheriff's deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona. The dustup culminated in Buggeln slapping Coleman
across the face, giving him a bloody lip. "He ran down the hall screaming,'First blood of the revolution! ' or some
shit like that."

Although Coleman styled himself as a hippie, he had no shortage of ambition he, “adeptly cultivated a network of
professors and administrators.” He had access to those people," says Carolyn Sofia, who was co-editor-in-chief of the
Hofstra Chronicle student newspaper during Coleman's senior year.

"From my point of view, Norman wanted to take over the Hofstra Chronicle," says Sofia, who now teaches writing at
Stony Brook University. "He wanted to be a politician and control the press at the same time."

The other hallmark event of Coleman's college political life occurred at the close of the 1969-70 school years. The
Nixon administration had recently invaded Cambodia, and campuses across the country erupted in civil disobedience.
On May 4, Ohio National Guards men killed four unarmed students at Kent State University. Nationwide,
violent clashes broke out between students and police on 26 campuses.

At Hofstra, students staged a campus-wide strike. Protesters took over the student center and the main
administration building lead by Norm Coleman. Classes were cancelled.

Everybody went nuts," recalls Buggeln. ".. the university was effectively shut down."
Norm Coleman was at the forefront was the leader of the unrest, but his triumph was in shutting down the school. At
Hofstra, Norm Coleman led the staged campus-wide strike.

Norm Coleman with his megaphone in hand lead and directed the taking over the Student Center and the Main
Administration Building not caring that then and today this was a federal crime!

With the present environment of the gun violence on many Universities today Norm you most likely not only
would have been arrested but even could have been shot by the campus police for taking over the Student
Center and the Main Administration Building. You were guilty but just never got arrested!

But the Hofstra students were beginning to see through what motivates Norm Coleman’s and his leadership role in the
unrest a Hofstra was short-lived; he was not content to be the school’s self styled radical hippie pot smoking anti-
establishment activist any more but literally "He wanted to be a politician and from Sofia and many of the students
point of view, Norman wanted to take over the Hofstra Chronicle the Hofstra press which would give him control of
many aspects of how Hofstra University was run.

So when students returned to campus in the fall, they voted to replace Coleman with Paul Hearne, a wheelchair-bound
student who went on to help draft the Americans with Disabilities Act before dying in 1998.

With graduation from Hofstra looming in 1971, Coleman faced the unhappy prospect of being drafted. But the antiwar
activist tricked his Draft Board by flunked his physical, due to a crash diet he lost enough weight to be deemed too
skinny to fight in Vietnam.

In 1971 Norm Coleman ran from the draft using every trick in the book to get out of serving his country during the
Vietnam War.

While by then Dr. Jack Shepard who had volunteered and enlisted to join the Untied States Air Force at the University
of Minnesota was promoted to the rank Captain Jack Shepard, as his commander often said Jack always had the right
stuff.

Captain Jack E. Shepard would proudly wear his blue United States Air ForceCaptain's Uniform when he had the chance to return to the University of Minnesota on leave; often getting some cat calls from other long hair pot smoking anti-establishment radical activists like Norm Coleman who worked hard to lose so much weight that he would not get drafted but Captain Jack Shepard did his duty to proudly serve his country.

Looking at Senator Norm Coleman I see no sign lack of weight or strength of a person who could not serve his
country when the draft called.

NEVER CALL NORM COLEMAN A VETERAN IT WOULD BE AN INSULT TO THE 58,193 BRAVE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WHO DIED IN VIETNAM FOLLOWING AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY ! RIGHT OR WRONG.

More than a decade after those tumultuous times, Herbert Rosenbaum was visiting family in the Twin Cities. Flipping
through channels one morning, he came upon a public affairs show featuring the familiar face of Norman Coleman.
The former student
was now a prosecutor with the Minnesota Attorney General's Office.

"I was surprised because he took a very hard, law-and-order line”, "Rosenbaum says.

He sure fooled everyone now and then especially the Draft Board. He is a professional flip-flopper said Warren
Spannaus , “"Norman's one of the classic flip-floppers.”

His performance certainly didn't lack for chutzpah, considering Coleman's own transformation from '60s-era radical
too weak and under weight to be drafted to the strong well built conservative Republican he has literal surgically
made himself into. If you see Norm Coleman today; there is no way you would think he ever could have created the
illusion that he was to weak and skinny to fight in Vietnam. If you ask me what he did in fooling the draft board
stinks.

"Norman's one of the classic flip-floppers," says Warren Spannaus, the former Democratic attorney general
who initially hired Coleman as a prosecutor. "I suppose by the time we get to the election he will have
switched over to being against this war, too."
For our next U.S. Senate from Minnesota we sure do not need another attorney. The Untied States Congress is
dominated by attorneys. Our American Congress when it was created was a fine mix of people from all walks of life
with all types of backgrounds.

Today we need people who have a wealth of experience both Nationally and Internationally to get elected to our next U.
S. Congress. If at any time in our history our next American Senate has an urgent need for some fresh new blood with
international experience and other talents beside being a past prosecuting attorneys.

It is urgent for the very future existence of America’s and her survival in these dangerous times that the next U.S.
Senate elect literal as many military officers who have recently serviced overseas or are presently serving abroad
especially with their massive experience and understanding of the very complete Middle East Region to educate their
new fellow Senators about the situation from years of personal contact and dealing with people from all over the world;
they know how America is presently perceived by other countries.

Just because a senator has briefly for a few days travelled to Iraq, Israel or Africa etc. they can not even begin to
understand the most complex situation that America has found itself it in our young history.
Ask Norm Coleman to show his true colors and why after his failed
attacks on Kofi Annan, George Galloway Part 1 and George Galloway Part 2 and Jaques Chirac many others how are
you helping your fellow
Minnesotans by becoming the failed Prosecutor of the Untied States
Senate, the senate has attorney’s for that!
We in Minnesota wish a Senator who will fight for Minnesotans, even with international experience working to have
foreign governments adopts human rights and democratic norms like the rest of the world. Instead of a Senator who is
happy seeing his face on TV and in Newspapers even though he failed in his attempts to prosecuting world leaders; cost
us Millions of Dollars.

When will you after 40 years standing up and start telling us who the real Norm Coleman is by first coming
clean with your fellow Minnesotans by saying: "I, Norm Coleman, smoked pot in 1969."

Why Can't Norm Coleman come out of the closet in 2008 and say "These present arrests for small quantities of pot
are wrong; look at me Norm Coleman I did it daily for years and look where I have gotten! There has to be a better
way, and we need to find it. How about you Norm Coleman looking back at your past and saying: "What I did was not
so wrong and not so bad and not so hurtful that generations of Americans should still, decades later, be going to jail
for smoking pot - nearly one million arrests for possession last year."

If you were arrested you would have never been accepted to legal school or became a US Senator don’t you ever think
about what you are doing to the futures of 100,000’s of Minnesota kids and teenagers by making them criminals for
the same pot you smoked but luckily did not get arrest for. The only difference you did not get arrested for your pot
smoking.. One arrest on their record their chances of finding a job, getting accepted to a major college, getting a
government loan like you did all made impossible. Do you no ever think how are they going to raise a family, that
from that minute their life is almost 100% destroyed because their got arrested , remember you also broke the law
thousands of time but just got lucky in not getting arrested.
You forget if you were arrested what would you be doing now; who are you with your history of drugs, anti-
government behaviour and occupying University building to be the Senate’s Prosecutor; we wanted a Minnesota
Senator to fight for Minnesota!

I ask you Norm Coleman why does Minnesota or the nation for that matter still not really have a real re-entry
program to help ex-offenders when they are release from a hostile environment in prison to even a more hostile
environment in our communities.

These ex-offender as still literally abandoned; if elected my first concern would be to write legislation to give tax
breaks to individual, companies or corporation that hire ex- offenders. I would work with the US Department of
Justice though President Bush’s Task Force for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives program that the president
created to help lower the crime rate and help ex-offenders by increasing it’s funding.

The facts are that presently 2 in 5 ex-offenders are returned to prison after only two years because of lack of any real
re-entry program in Minnesota. Presently we in Minnesota are not prepared to help the ex-offender to make a
difference to really give the ex-offenders a real second chance.

Jesus taught us we have to show them there is forgiveness, there is real redemption and they are welcome in our
communities if they start living by the Lords Commandments. .

We have to give them the chance to once again become productive members of our community by helping them get
temporary housing after their release, new job skills training and especially employed so for some of them it will be
the first time in their lives they can proudly say that they have a job and respect in the community.
Norm Coleman you could have very very easily been a FELON, an ex-offender just getting out of a New York
Prison.; How about admitting that if the Rockefeller drug laws, “The Rockefeller drug laws are the term used
to denote the statutes dealing with the sale and possession of drugs; possessing four ounces of marijuana was
a minimum of 15
years to life in prison and a maximum of 25 years to life in prison”
If the Rockefeller drug laws were applied to you, Norman Bruce Coleman on Long Island in 1968 you and
others we knew and loved might just be getting out of Jail now.” “You smoked pot as you stood on the roof of
the University Senate ( Norm Coleman you could be a DOUBLE felon) protesting faculty exclusivity.” As
Norm Kent said your pot smoking buddy.
How about standing up and saying:
"I, Norm Coleman, smoked pot in 1969 and I am lucky that I am not ( a felon) just getting out of a New York Jail for beingarrested for using drugs and criminal damage
to Campus property in the take over Hofstra University I lead.” Senator Norm Coleman

Dr. Jack Shepard swears if elected will work with Congress and not forget to fight to help the struggling Minnesota
Economy, not like one of Minnesota’s present Senators; Norm Coleman who is more interested in becoming the
Prosecutor of the U.S. Senate seeing his face in the media. That is not why Minnesota after win by a margin of only
2% sent Norm Coleman to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate.

I swear if elected I; Jack Shepard will no forget my fellow Minnesotan’s like Senator Norm Coleman has!

I will author legislation for new job programs for America and especially for Minnesota.
I will create legislation for inner city development programs.

To save Minnesotans tens of millions of dollars of wasted incarceration costs if elected I would immediately begin
working with the U.S. Justice Department though President Bush’s Task Force for Faith-Based and Community
Initiatives program that the President Bush created to help lower the crime rate and help ex-offenders and finally
create a real re-entry program for Minnesota’s ex-offenders saving Minnesota Millions of dollars.

I, Jack Shepard if elected your next U.S. Senator would author legislation so people, companies or corporations would
get tax rebates or other credits for giving ex-offenders jobs. This would not only low the raising crime rate in
Minnesota but low the sky rocketing costs of incarceration in Minnesota; presently Minnesota spends over $50,000+
per year for each inmate.

This would enable our communities to hire more desperately needed law enforcement officers ( job creation) , which
would make my fellow Minnesotans even safer immediately which would begin to low our present raising crime rate.

Senator Norm Coleman has been so busy with his very unsuccessful investigations of Oil for Food Programs, and his
countless investigations and unsuccessful hearing and attacks on world leaders like Kofi Annan, Jacques Chirac ,
George Galloway just to mention a few it is obvious Norm Coleman has forgotten Minnesota!

It embarrasses me to say it but Senator Coleman forgets only because of a terrible accident did he get sent to the US
Senate in the first place.

Senator Coleman after 17 years as a prosecuting attorney has forgotten why he was sent to the U. S. Senate.
Minnesota sent Norm Coleman to the U.S. Senate to represent and help the people of Minnesota and especially help
improve Minnesota’s weakening economy.

Senator Coleman has spent more time investigating international issues then working to help Minnesota’s very weak
economy and has nothing to stop Minnesota’s raising unemployment especially among minorities.

No question about it. It is time for a new change to a new U.S. Senator who cares more about Minnesota’s economy
and Minnesota’s unemployment, then seeing his new face in the media.

Minnesotans are sick of seeing Norm Coleman’s face in the media spending wasted months on international
investigations and cross examining people from all over the world with no results to show from it but a tremendous
waste of time and a tremendous cost to the American tax payers of tens of millions of dollars.

Minnesotan’s wish a new U.S. Senator that will care about and work to help Minnesota first. Norm Coleman was send
to the U.S. Senate to be a Senator and help Minnesota not to do his old job of being a Prosecuting Attorney on TV
again.

The choice is you’re my fellow Minnesotans but remember these things.

While Norm Coleman in 1971 was at Hofstra University NY; as a pot-smoking student hippie activist protesting the
war and lambasting U.S. policies which he still denies. As a pot smoking hippie activist anti-Vietnam War Protester he
tricked military draft board and went on a crash diet so the Military Draft Board classified him as to skinny to go to
serve his country in Vietnam.

NEVER CALL SEN. MORM COLEMAN A VETERAN! HE KNOWS WHY!

CALL HIM A HYPOCRITE FOR AS A MINNESOTA PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FOR 17 YEARS HE HAS SENT
TENS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND STUDENTS TO PRISON FOR POT POSSESSION A CRIME THAT HE ALSO
WAS GUILTY OF FOR YEARS BUT ONLY DIFFERENCE WAS HE DID NOT GET ARRESTED FOR IT ! THAT IS
WHY HE IS A HYPOCRITE.

Vote for a Patriot Jack Shepard or vote for a Hypocrite Norm Coleman!

Time for a Change! Time for Change!

Dr. Jack Shepard

Dr. Jack Shepard, is a Contender for the Republican Nomination for the U.S. Senate in the Minnesota
Republican Primary on September 9, 2008

A call to the GOP confirms

A call to the GOP confirms that Jack Shepard is a real person, who they believe is currently living outside the US. He has run for offices in Minnesota before. Since filing for office does not happen until June, this claim of "Contender for the Republican Nomination for the U.S. Senate in the Minnesota" can be made

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“Anyone but Norm” is the theme of Jack Shepard election against Norm Coleman in his GOP Primary for re-election is the only way to dump Norm.

Jack Shepard is back for a rematch with Sen. Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman in the Sept. 9, 2008 Minnesota Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate.

Rightly so Jack Shepard’s Campaign is titled “Anyone but
Norm” so vote for Jack Shepard in the Minnesota Republican
Primary for the United States Senate on September 9, 2008!

Al Franken’s the Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Senates
Main reason for also running against Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman is his wish to eliminate Norm Coleman from the U.S. Senate.

If elected as Senator Al Franken; Al has promised to work to
End the Iraqi war and bring our troops home!

The “Anyone but Norm” campaign that Jack Shepard is
Running against Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman in the Republican Primary on September 9, 2008 is going to be one of the most important
And watched Senate races in the nation!

Can almost unelectable Jack Shepard eliminate Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk)
Coleman and win the Republican Primary in September 9, 2008
For the U. S. Senate to win the right to run against Al Franken
And maybe also liberal Former Governor and professional
Wrestler Jesse Ventura in the November General election for
The United States Senate in the State of Minnesota?

Just when you thought the 2008 campaign couldn’t get more
Unpredictable Jack Shepard says in his, “Anyone but Norm”
Campaign vote for me in the Republican Primary against Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk)Coleman on September 9, 2008 is the only way working
Together we can “Dump Norm” easily.

I know that every member of the Minnesota Democratic Party And most independents voters in Minnesota who support Al Franken for the U.S. Senate would rather have Al Franken run
Against Jack Shepard then Senator Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman and former Governor Jesse Ventura in the Minnesota General Election in November.

Because Al Franken the Democratic Candidate for the U.S.
Senate and I, Dr. Jack Shepard the Republican Candidate
Running against the incumbent U. S. Senator Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman in the Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate on September 9,
2008 share many similar views on so many issues.

Especially because it looks most likely liberal Former
Governor Jesse Ventura will also be run for the U.S. Senate.

If Former Governor Jesse Ventura runs for the U.S. Senate he
will split the liberal vote and if Senator Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman beats Jack Shepard in the Republican Primary then Senator Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader) Coleman will get lucky again and will easily get re-elected to
Another 6 years as Minnesota’s Senior United States Senator to continue his warmongering!

Now you see how important it is for Jack Shepard’s; “Anyone
But Norm” campaign to be successful!

Jack Shepard must beat warmongering Norm Coleman in the Republican Primary
To “Dump Norm” to eliminate Norm Coleman in his own Primary is
The only way to stop Senator Norm Coleman and affect the outcome of
The Minnesota Senate race in 2008!

So Minnesota's next US Senator will work to end the Iraqi War, to Dump warmongering Norm Coleman you only have one chance to eliminate Norm Coleman by voting for Jack Shepard in the GOP Primary- to end the Iraqi War we need the magic number of 60 US senator to end the Iraqi War.

If Norm Coleman the leading cheer leader of the Iraqi War beats Jack Shepard in the GOP Primary there is no stopping him, the necessary number of 60 US Senators required to end the Iraqi war will not be reached if Norm Coleman beat Jack Shepard in the GOP Primary on Sept. 9, 2008.

In the general election with Norm Coleman eliminate vote for anyone because all three candidates are for ending the Iraqi war.

For more information contact candidate Dr. Jack Shepard
www.jackshepardforsenate.com
shepardj@shepardjack.191.it

THIS IS A PROTEST THAT WILL REALLY END THE IRAQ WAR-I would like

THIS IS A PROTEST THAT WILL REALLY END THE IRAQ WAR-I would like to hear ideas how we can spread this message to stop the Iraqi War by a protest crossover vote only in a primary.

THIS IS A PROTEST THAT WILL REALLY END THE IRAQ WAR-
BUT YOU HAVE TO START PLANNING NOW!
EVERYONE CROSSES OVER AND ELIMINATES WARMONGER NORM COLEMAN BY VOTING FOR JACK SHEPARD IN MINNESOTA GOP PRIMARY ON SEPT. 9, 2008

A Vote for “Anyone but Norm” is a vote for Jack Shepard in the GOP US Senate Primary on Sept. 9, 2007!
http://www.jackshepardforsenate.com
“Anyone but Norm” is the theme of Jack Shepard election against Norm Coleman in his GOP Primary for re-election is the only way to dump Norm.

Jack Shepard is back for a rematch with Sen. Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman in the Sept. 9, 2008 Minnesota Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate.

Rightly so Jack Shepard’s Campaign is titled “Anyone but
Norm” so vote for Jack Shepard in the Minnesota Republican
Primary for the United States Senate on September 9, 2008!

Al Franken’s the Democratic Candidate for the U.S. Senates
Main reason for also running against Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman is his wish to eliminate Norm Coleman from the U.S. Senate.

If elected as Senator Al Franken; Al has promised to work to
End the Iraqi war and bring our troops home!

The “Anyone but Norm” campaign that Jack Shepard is
Running against Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman in the Republican Primary on September 9, 2008 is going to be one of the most important
And watched Senate races in the nation!

Can almost unelectable Jack Shepard eliminate Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk)
Coleman and win the Republican Primary in September 9, 2008
For the U. S. Senate to win the right to run against Al Franken
And maybe also liberal Former Governor and professional
Wrestler Jesse Ventura in the November General election for
The United States Senate in the State of Minnesota?

Just when you thought the 2008 campaign couldn’t get more
Unpredictable Jack Shepard says in his, “Anyone but Norm”
Campaign vote for me in the Republican Primary against Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk)Coleman on September 9, 2008 is the only way working
Together we can “Dump Norm” easily.

I know that every member of the Minnesota Democratic Party And most independents voters in Minnesota who support Al Franken for the U.S. Senate would rather have Al Franken run
Against Jack Shepard then Senator Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman and former Governor Jesse Ventura in the Minnesota General Election in November.

Because Al Franken the Democratic Candidate for the U.S.
Senate and I, Dr. Jack Shepard the Republican Candidate
Running against the incumbent U. S. Senator Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman in the Republican Primary for the U.S. Senate on September 9,
2008 share many similar views on so many issues.

Especially because it looks most likely liberal Former
Governor Jesse Ventura will also be run for the U.S. Senate.

If Former Governor Jesse Ventura runs for the U.S. Senate he
will split the liberal vote and if Senator Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader and Chicken-Hawk) Coleman beats Jack Shepard in the Republican Primary then Senator Norm (Iraq War Cheerleader) Coleman will get lucky again and will easily get re-elected to
Another 6 years as Minnesota’s Senior United States Senator to continue his warmongering!

Now you see how important it is for Jack Shepard’s; “Anyone
But Norm” campaign to be successful!

Jack Shepard must beat warmongering Norm Coleman in the Republican Primary
To “Dump Norm” to eliminate Norm Coleman in his own Primary is
The only way to stop Senator Norm Coleman and affect the outcome of
The Minnesota Senate race in 2008!

So Minnesota's next US Senator will work to end the Iraqi War, to Dump warmongering Norm Coleman you only have one chance to eliminate Norm Coleman by voting for Jack Shepard in the GOP Primary- to end the Iraqi War we need the magic number of 60 US senator to end the Iraqi War.

If Norm Coleman the leading cheer leader of the Iraqi War beats Jack Shepard in the GOP Primary there is no stopping him, the necessary number of 60 US Senators required to end the Iraqi war will not be reached if Norm Coleman beat Jack Shepard in the GOP Primary on Sept. 9, 2008.

In the general election with Norm Coleman eliminate vote for anyone because all three candidates are for ending the Iraqi war.

For more information contact candidate Dr. Jack Shepard
htpp://www.jackshepardforsenate.com
shepardj@shepardjack.191.it

Coleman commercial (take out the trash)

Seems odd he'd run this when it's common knowledge he and his wife don't live together . . . she lives in CA. Another fakey public presentation.

Political Hypocrits

The problem with people these days is that they do not go by what they feel is correct or ethical or just. Starting out they may be doing things that interest them and they have conviction for but as soon as they get into the big leagues things change. The power bosses control things and they fall right into their traps. They desert all their ethical codes of conduct and become slaves to their jobs. I hope he can dig himself out out the grave he has created.
Narconon

What is Norm Coleman running

What is Norm Coleman running from?

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I Believe...

I believe that there are politicians that get into the game planning on making some positive change, but once they are in, they become part of organized crime and if they buck the system, they pay a terrible price. Look at the govenor of Alabama, look what happened to kennedy, and Cynthia Ann McKinney was blackballed from the house and lost an election because she spoke up for what is right.

The system is corrupt, and until we the people clean house, it will remain dirty.

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