DU's own dpbrown had a letter to the editor published

[dflprincess]

in today's Mpls Start Tribune:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/563/4128436.html

We all knew that he would do it. It was only a matter of when.

The people of Minnesota owe Sen. Norm Coleman a collective sigh of gratitude for showing us that, upon the slimmest, flimsiest reed of an excuse, he will shrug off the individuality he wore like an ill-fitting suit to rejoin the herd of oil apologists and Bush sycophants, abandoning his pledge to the people of Minnesota, and to the nation, to protect the bare, microscopic sliver of untrammeled wilderness left on this continent for this and future generations.

He pales in comparison to the giant of a man who preceded him in office.

For making it crystal clear to the people of Minnesota that his loyalties lie not with the people who elected him but with the power-brokers who made him, we are grateful.

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And, while I'm posting, there was another anti-Coleman letter printed:

Almost 11 months to the day of Paul Wellstone's death, Norm Coleman steps up to offer his obedience to the Bush energy program. I'd call his office to complain, but I have never heard back when I have.

Minnesota could get the coal gasification plant without giving away the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Or better yet, let's build a state-owned wind farm on the Iron Range and keep our Minnesota air clean as well!