Got an anecdote about Norm Coleman's womanizing? Ed Schultz wants to hear it

[Minnesota Raindog]

Sounds like Air America's Ed Schultz is ready to settle a few scores with our own Senator Grab-Ass...

http://tinyurl.com/66nrly

Send your Norm Coleman skirt-chasing anecdotes to Ed Schultz here:

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[CatholicEdHead]

1. Actually Ed is on AA stations but is produced by Jones Radio

which is not AA but distributes to many other stations.

[Mister Ed]

2. Good.

If the GOP wants to fight dirty, then let the good times roll. If they want to drag out every indecorous thing Al has written during his career as a comedian, then we'll drag out every indecorous thing Norm has done during his career as a public servant.

I give the Repubs credit for raising an important point, though: a candidate's attitude toward women matters. It matters a lot. So let's put these two candidates under the microscope and examine their attitudes toward - and actions toward - women.

Al will come out smelling like a rose.

[Minnesota Raindog]

3. From Norm's stoner days

http://www.celebstoner.com/news/marijuana-news/hippie-pics-of-norm-coleman-surface.html



And then there's this letter that Norm's old college burnin' pal Norm Kent sent to Norm. Norm Kent now sits on the Board of Directors for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/when-hippies-go-bad-th_b_55498.html

My friend Norman,

Years ago, in a lifetime far away, you did not oppose the legalization of marijuana. Years ago, in our dorm rooms at Hofstra University, you, me, Billy, your future brother-in-law, Ivan, Jonathan, Peter, Janet, Nancy and a wealth of other students smoked dope.

Sure, we had to tape the doors shut, burn incense and open the windows, but we got high, and yet we grew up okay, without the help of the Office of National Drug Control Policy's advice.

We grew up to become lawyers. Our other friends, as you go down the list, are doctors, professors, parents, political consultants and professionals. No one ever got cancer from smoking pot or diabetes from using a joint. And the days of our youth we look back fondly upon as years where we stood up, were counted and made a difference, from Earth Day in 1970 to helping bring down a president and end a war in Southeast Asia a few years later. We smoked pot when we took over Weller Hall to protest administrative abuses of students' rights. You smoked pot as you stood on the roof of the University Senate protesting faculty exclusivity. As the President of the Student Senate in 1969, you condemned the raid by Nassau County police on our dormitories, busting scores of students for pot possession.

You never said then that pot was dangerous. What was scary then, and is as frightening now, is when national leaders become voices of hypocrisy, harbingers of the status quo, and protect their own position instead of the public good. Welcome to the crowd of those who have become a likeness of which they despised. Welcome to the mindless myriad of legislators who gather in cocktail lounges to manhandle their martinis while passing laws against drunk driving.

We have seen more people die last year from spinach then pot. We have endured generations of drug addicts overdosing on a multitude of drugs, from heroin to crystal methamphetamine. In your public life, as an attorney general, mayor and United States senator, you have been in the forefront of speaking out against abuses which are harmful. You have been a noble and honorable public servant. How about not being such a dope on dope?

How about admitting that if the Rockefeller drug laws were applied to Norman Bruce Coleman on Long Island in 1968, or to me, or to our friends, and fellow students, you, I and others we knew and loved might just be getting out of jail now? How about recognizing that for too long too many have been wrongly arrested, unjustly prosecuted and illegally incarcerated for unconscionable periods of time?

How about recognizing that you have peers who have smoked pot for 25 years or more and they are successful record producers, businessmen and parents?

How about standing up and saying you have heard and witnessed countless stories of persons who have used pot medicinally, as I have, to endure the effects of chemotherapy?

You who have travelled to Africa and seen the face of AIDS so up close and personal would deny medicinal marijuana relief to those souls wasting away from malnutrition, nausea and no access to fundamental medicines?

How about not adopting the sad and sorry archaic path of our office of drug control, which this week suggested pot smokers are more likely to become gang members than others?

How about standing up and saying: "I, Norm Coleman, smoked pot in 1969." That "I am not a gang member, a drug addict or a criminal."

How about saying: "I was able to responsibly integrate my prior pot use into my life, and still succeed on my own merits."

How about standing up not only for who you are, but who you were?

How about it, Norm?

I will always love, admire and cherish what you have achieved and accomplished and the goals you have met. I will always fondly look at the remarkable success of your present.

How about you looking back at your past and saying: "What I did was not so wrong and not so bad and not so hurtful that generations of Americans should still, decades later, be going to jail for smoking pot -- nearly one million arrests for possession last year."

Can't Norm Coleman come out of the closet in 2007 and say "These arrests are wrong -- that there is a better way, and we need to find it."

You might find more integrity and honor in that then adopting the sad and sorry policy of our Office of National Drug Control Policy.

You might find the person you were.

[HopeFor2006]

8. A picture really is worth a thousand words!

[Bjorn Against]

4. "These conservative kids don't fuck or get high like we do" - Norm Coleman

Yes, he really did say that back in his hippie days and if he thinks jokes that Al Franken told twenty years ago are fair game then I think he should have to explain his own past statements to his religious right base.

http://www.celebstoner.com/content/view/243/34

[Minnesota Raindog]

5. Right-wing blogger hints at Norm Coleman's "marital infidelity"

This is from the barely coherent Mitch Berg, one of the lesser lights of the local right-wingnut blogosphere:

http://www.shotinthedark.info/wp/?p=2680

"It’s been an open secret forever in Saint Paul and Minnesota politics; Norm and his wife have a rather unconventional marriage. Schultz is being disingenuous if he claims this is some big revelation (or, equally likely, the dim little bulb inside his thick little head hasn’t quite quite figured it out yet, and his prime directive, “blow hard first, ask questions later”, is in control).

"And Franken is to be complemented; he’s been married to Franny for thirty-something years. Kudos.

"But since when did the party of “MoveOn.org” - an organization founded ten years ago to cajole the American people into ignoring the legal perjury (and, incidentally, marital infidelity) of a middle-aged lothario in the White House - care about such things?

[dflprincess]

6. We don't care about "those things"

but if the Repukes are going to continue to make an issue of bad jokes Franken told 13 years ago, we will make an issue of this. Sort of a "those who live in glass houses" thing.

And, while Normie's marriage and extra martial activities may be "an open secret forever in Saint Paul and Minnesota politics", it really isn't all the well known among people who haven't been really active (at least in the DFL) and heard it discusse.d

[StopTheMadness]

7. I want info on Norm's womanizing and sexually harassing women too!

please contact me with any info about mr. family values hitting on women, grabbing ass, sexually harassing women, cheating on his wife....this hypocrite needs to be pantsed.

[Minnesota Raindog]

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never mind...

[dflprincess]

10. A couple Minnesotans mentioned Normie's womanizing when they called into Stephanie Miller's show

today.

I think I may have to contact the Strib and ask why Edwards' affair was front page news on Saturday (plus two inside the A section stories on Sunday) but they have yet to mention Norm's problems.... Not to mention the Strib has also not seen fit to mention Cheney plotting a false flag event with Iran or the forged documents Suskind writes about.