From Rep. Kline, Sun 11/08/09 4:29 AM

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Dear Friends,

According to StarTribune story Friday, Norm Coleman thinks he can win the vacant U.S. Senate seat because most of the disputed absentee ballots from heavily DFL areas already have been counted, while rejected ballots in Republican-leaning precincts such as Carver County and Plymouth have yet to be tallied.

The StarTribune story can be found here.

A Villager story from Feb. 12 is below. 

The U.S. Senate recount trial is focusing on whether some rejected absentee ballots should be reconsidered and added to the vote total. Norm Coleman's campaign has provided a list of names of people who had absentee ballots rejected in all counties in the state. Here is the list for Carver County.

Rejected absentee ballots

U.S. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., has been appointed to three committees in the 111th Congress.

In his fourth term in the U.S. House, Kline will serve on the committees on Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee), Armed Services, and Education and Labor Committee.

The Ethics Committee is the only committee in the House with equal representation of Democrats and Republicans.

The Carver County recount is over. In all, it took the Carver County workers about 15 hours on Wednesday and Thursday to complete the task.

“I think everyone kept their sense of humor quite well through the process,” said Recount Deputy Laurie Engelen.

By Richard Crawford

An improperly placed ballot and the luck of the draw resulted in Al Franken netting two coveted votes in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race with Norm Coleman.

Delegates to the 2nd Congressional District Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party Convention endorsed Steve Sarvi’s candidacy for Congress last Saturday. Sarvi will face Rep. John Kline (R-Lakeville) in the November election. According to a release issued by Sarvi's campaign Peter Idusogie, who had been challenging Sarvi for the endorsement, withdrew after the first vote and endorsed Sarvi.

By Mark W. Olson 

The dyed-in-the-wool Republican city of Victoria is once again proving to be an interesting politically anomaly.

Ever since Victoria was incorporated as a city in 1915, it has voted in the majority for 18 Republican presidential candidates, letting only one Democratic and one third party candidate squeeze through its grasp. And it hasn't let that happen since 1968.