Another Republican crook loose on the streets: Minnesota, be on the lookout for a WM, 59, senator...

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from ThinkProgress:



Report: Coleman’s illicit funds helped pay for home renovations.»

Earlier this week, news reports indicated that the FBI is investigating allegations that Nasser Kazeminy, a Minnesota businessman “tried to funnel $75,000″ to Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) through his wife. Now, a Minnesota Fox News affiliate reports that the timing of the payments suggest that the funds were used to pay for a portion of the senator’s home renovations:

(Coleman’s) campaign did agree to share billing records of the remodeling project. Original projections in 2006 estimated a cost of $328,000, but four months later, the construction cost was estimated at $414,000, over-budget by $86,000.

During that time is when, the lawsuit alleges, Kazeminy was trying to get money to Coleman. According to the lawsuits, in March of 2007, Kazeminy said that “U.S. Senators don’t make s—” and he was going to try to find a way to get money to Coleman.

The renovations included remodeling the Colemans’ kitchen, which Coleman showed off in a recent campaign ad: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/12/coleman-kitchen-lawsuit/

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1. Coleman is such a slime bucket bottom feeder that it's

impossible to understand how he got so many re-election votes. WTF? Obama took the state by a hefty margin, which means a significant number of voters chose Obama and then basically negated their vote by casting a ballot to return that useless piece of Repuke shit to the Senate. People apparently have no idea what the hell they are voting for.

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2. Don't underestimate the pull of a third party candidate during an ugly campaign...

Barkley threw a wrench in the whole thing by stealing lots of votes from both parties.

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3. It was a 3 way election.. which is why there was such a diff in totals.