Campaign surrogate tennis!
The Minnesota Republican Party held another news conference today on Al Franken's past comments regarding women. Several DFLers also criticized Franken for the comments he made in the article. You can read about it here.
The Franken campaign response didn't address the flap but focused on Norm Coleman:
"Norm Coleman voted against funding for the Violence Against Women Act. He ought to be ashamed."
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Later in the day, The Democrat leaning Alliance for a Better Minnesota held a news conference announcing a "six-figure" ad campaign criticizing GOP Sen. Norm Coleman's relationship with oil and gas companies. Coleman's campaign released this statement on the ad:
"This ad is a desperate attempt to save a candidate drowning in hypocrisy and vulgarity - and it is the kind of negative attack ad that will become common by Al Franken and his allies throughout this campaign. The truth is Norm Coleman has been a champion in the battle to end our nation's addiction to foreign oil. He is a recognized leader in renewable energy legislation, having co-sponsored and passed into law the nation's first-ever Renewable Fuels Standard that has resulted in a massive expansion of Minnesota's renewable fuels industry. He has supported increased fuel economy requirements and led the effort to help pass the new Farm Bill that will bring renewable energy into the future through cellulosic ethanol and a sugar-to-ethanol program. The Senator has voted to shift tax incentives away from oil companies and to renewable fuels programs like those being developed in Minnesota. Senator Coleman, unlike Al Franken and his allies, believes we must be aggressive in developing access to domestic energy resources like coal, gas and oil. We are in the midst of an energy crisis that threatens our economic and national security, and expanding access to those resources, as well as an aggressive renewable fuels program, has to be our focus in the years ahead."
This leaves me to wonder: Where are the actual candidates?