After Filibustering The Seating Of Franken, Cornyn Insists Alaskans ‘Deserve’ Senate

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After Filibustering The Seating Of Franken, Cornyn Insists Alaskans ‘Deserve’ Senate Representation

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/10/cornyn-franken-alaska/

In 2009, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) proclaimed that he would do everything possible to block Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) from taking his seat in the Senate, even though Franken led his Republican opponent Norm Coleman in the vote tally. Declaring that he would fight “World War III” to keep Franken out of the Senate for “years,” Cornyn reasoned that allowing Coleman’s legal challenges to Franken were more important than providing Minnesota with a senator. However, with Republican Joe Miller challenging the ballots in his election with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Cornyn is singing a different tune.

Roll Call reports that Cornyn is demanding that Alaskans simply deserve full representation, and is hoping the legal challenges regarding the 2010 Alaska senate election do not deprive the state of its senator when Congress convenes in January:

An Alaska state court judge is expected to make a ruling on the Senate race by Friday, but with an appeal to the state Supreme Court likely, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn said he hopes the court process concludes soon. As we’ve reported, the ongoing battle has put Republicans on Capitol Hill in a tough spot. The Texan addressed that concern Wednesday in an interview with Roll Call. “We just have to be patient and wait for the judge to decide,” said Cornyn, a former judge. “I understand that could be as early as (Thursday), and I hope it doesn’t go on much longer because I think the people of Alaska deserve to have a Senator when we reconvene again in January, and not still have that up in the air.”

When it comes to a Republican senator, Cornyn urgently believes that Alaska (population 698,473) deserves full representation in Congress. However, he was more than happy to deprive 5,266,214 Minnesotans a vote in the senate because of partisan reasons. Cornyn prevented Franken from taking his seat using the threat of a filibuster. Cornyn’s National Republican Campaign Committee also provided lawyers for Coleman to keep Franken out of the Senate for six months.

[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[bluesbassman]

2. I'm shocked I tell you, just shocked.

:sarcasm:

What boggles my mind is how they can pull this kind of crap over and over and over but the so-called "Liberal Media" never calls them on the carpet for their blatant hypocrisy.

[Angry Dragon]

3. A fool ........... perhaps he is just lost in his own mind

[struggle4progress]

4. Why is Cornyn rushing to abandon Miller, in this close nailbiter?

:D

[barbtries]

5. typical republican hypocrisy.

nt

[northoftheborder]

6. How would you like to have this hypocrite for your senator? Writing, phoning, emailing a total....

.....waste of time.

[barbtries]

8. i have burr in nc

i waste my time writing rants at him and telling him to start representing his constituency instead of the republican party. it sure is a waste of time except that i feel better afterward.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. The more Miller contests the election,

the better it is for Alaska's Democrats who have been fighting the Alaska Division of Elections since at least 2004. There's some real weird stuff that goes on up here every single election and will continue to as long as we're using the Diebold Accuvote scanners, the same ones that have been outlawed in California because they're so easy to tamper with.

I applaud him in his efforts.