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- Latest post made by Wizard Marks at Jul 01 17:29 UTC
In the early days of WW II, an 'insignificant senator from Missouri
investigated war profiteering. Much corporate was exposed in military -
civilian contracting. It changed the economics of the time.
Our Senator Norm Coleman, was chair of that committee during the republican
domination of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations..
During his tenure, few investigations of extreme corruption were conducted. The
media have revealed more corruption in Iraq contracting than the Senate
committee under Senator Coleman.
His silence on the contract corruption during his committee tenure makes him
less than qualified for reelection.
The Senator during WW II went on to become US President. Government contracting
was pretty clean from then until the Reagan administration.
Senator Truman's efforts also led to the "excess profits tax" which also
remained until Reagan.
Senator Coleman has not been about the peoples' business. He should not be
reelected.
Harvey Glommen
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Welcome back, Harvey.
Yes, we have nothing to thank Norm Coleman for regarding the war, or
for anything else concerning serving Minnesota, our country, and the
world. Public service is laudable, but one can hardly describe the
jobs Norm has done for his dark masters, public service. We need
someone to work for us: Al Franken.
On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Harvey Glommen wrote:
> >>Senator Coleman has not been about the peoples' business. He
> should not be reelected.<<
All politicians have a pretty big ego but Norma is all ego. What
ever if good for Norm is what seems to drives him, not principle.
This was apparent when he was in the AGs office and certainly
evident as he was a big supporter of Bush until Bushs popularity
began to wane.
Dwaine Lindberg
I was only in the same room with Coleman once, sometime before he jumped ship
from the DFL to the GOP. There is something about the man that is truly creepy.
I speculate that what is "wrong" with Norm Coleman is that he has no center
which he can truly call his own. Which means he will always be twisting in the
wind because he is afraid to address himself and know himself.
However, in the end, it means that it is creepy to be in the same room with
him.
Not that you can ever truly trust a politician, but there are degrees of
mistrust, then there are acute degrees of mistrust. Coleman is in that acute
phase.