COLEMAN MANAGER ON NRSC CHAIR BID: “That’s For After The Election”
Posted in News Clips, Press Releases on October 28th, 2008
COLEMAN MANAGER ON NRSC CHAIR BID: “That’s For After The Election”
Norm Coleman’s answers continue to change regarding his not-so-stealth campaign to lead the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Republican Senators have already said that Coleman has asked for their support. Last night on KMSP, his campaign manager Cullen Sheehan said his effort to head the group responsible for the most offensive direct mail piece this cycle was “a conversation for after the election.” Meanwhile, in an interview with WCCO’S Pat Kessler, Norm Coleman has already begun thinking about how he would run the committee.
KMSP (FOX)
10/27/08Mpls. - St. Paul
5:03 PM
OLSON: The DFL is saying Coleman is trying to be elected head of that committee, trying to connect him to this kind of negative advertising.
SHEEHAN: That’s a conversation for after the election. The only race that Norm Coleman is running for right now is reelection for the U.S. Senate.
MONDALE: In fact I think one of the reasons for this trash literature is that with a record like Coleman’s he wants to change the subject.
WCCO
10/27/08
Mpls. - St. Paul
10:06 PM
KESSLER: The cartoon depicts a cartoonish Al Franken beckoning children from behind a closed door. Inside it mentions rape and a pornographic column in Playboy magazine.
ROOS: This ad, it looks like a comic book.
KESSLER: Marcela Roos says her 10 year old son found the item in the mail
ROOS: As I mom, I have enough to worry about when it comes to protecting our children.
KESSLER: Even Senator Coleman denounces the mailing from his own part on his behalf. Releasing an email he sent to the NRSC in which he says “I’m astonished that anyone would have used such poor judgement.” But Coleman himself is interested in running the NRSC if reelected, telling us recently that he has been approached about it, but he is worried about the negativity of the job.
COLEMAN: If it’s off the table… if it can’t be done in a way I want to do it.
KESSLER: Meanwhile Democrats, including former vice president Walter Mondale say Coleman should renounce the NRSC job and apologize.
MONDALE: …and not to dump trash on the doorsteps of the families of Minnesota.
KESSLER: Now Senator Coleman recently pulled all how own negative ads off televison after millions of dollars and months of harsh attacks against Al Franken and now he is calling on all of the campaigns to do the same thing. It’s getting pretty nasty out there.
