“Left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is using his financial muscle at a Manhattan fund-raiser tonight to help Al Franken win a recount in Minnesota’s Senate election,” says today’s New York Post, which continues:
Soros – the hedge-fund honcho and sugar daddy of the Democratic Party – will host a soirée for Franken at his Carnegie Hill digs to help cover the candidate’s costs to monitor the statewide recount.
The special guest: Al Gore, who knows a thing or two about recounts.
Franken sent an email to supporters on November 14 informing them of Don Soros’s approval of his candidacy and asking them to contribute to his election-stealing “fair recount” efforts, which include challenging unmistakably clear votes for Norm Coleman if the voter marked his or her ballot for Democrats in other offices.
Franken currently trails Coleman by 216 votes out of nearly 2.9 million.
A spokesman for Senator Coleman dismissed Don Soros’ ability to control the outcome of the recount, saying, “This race will not be decided by New York billionaires or the US Senate. It will be decided by Minnesotans, and we are confident Sen. Coleman will prevail.”
“We’re screwed,” said Franken in reply. “We think all of the ballots will be counted, and we think we’ll prevail.”
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As a long time Sherlock Holmes fan
1SGinTN (Diary) Thursday, November 20th at 3:05PM EST (link)George Soros reminds me Holmes’ adversary Professor Moriarity. His hands (and $) seem to be on every nefarious scheme that opposes us.
Tu Ne Cede Malis
-Virgil
Soros - brought to you by McCain's BCRA
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Thursday, November 20th at 3:06PM EST (link)Thanks again, Johnnie Mac, for taking the corrupt money out of the election process.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
here comes the hanging chad!
merkurfan Thursday, November 20th at 3:24PM EST (link)Yup. we’ve all seen the durdgereport ballot..
check these out, pick your winner.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19challengedballots/
+50 Franken
Yil Thursday, November 20th at 3:25PM EST (link)Based on the 2pm numbers from: http://ww2.startribune.com/news/metro/elections/returns/2008/recount/msenco.html I think Franken gained 50 votes so far. That doesn’t count the challenged ballots obviously but Coleman is challenging more than Franken. From early examples of challenged votes I’m guessing they probably favor the voter over the challenge which means the difference could be larger.
Analysis elsewhere indicates over half of the ballots using the oldest and least reliable optical scanners have been done so the rate of votes changed may be less going forward.
This one is going to be close, but it’s not going in Norm’s direction at the moment.
Tru Dat
Alberta (Diary) Thursday, November 20th at 4:12PM EST (link)n/t
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln
Thanks, Jeff Emanuel
janalice (Diary) Thursday, November 20th at 4:34PM EST (link)It’s amazing what public officials are trying to get by with these days. I hope the trend will turn, but I don’t forsee that happening until our nation starts increasing its moral standards and expectations. Thank you for the information.
Soros is collecting a complete set
hunter (Diary) Friday, November 21st at 8:26AM EST (link)He already has a Presidential empty suit, and plenty of internet koolaid drinkers.
Now he wants a buffoon and Senator all in one package.
What would be fun would be to find out just how many and how much of the speculative bubbles that have damaged our world economy could be traced back to Soros, who specializes in blowing up and popping bubbles.
hunter