Hockey becomes political weapon in Minnesota senate race

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Hockey becomes political weapon in Minnesota senate race
With Leather found this 7/22/2008 on sports.yahoo.com [flag]
If you're a political junkie or a Stuart Smalley acolyte, you likely know that former "Saturday Night Live" writer and radio host Al Franken is running for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party against the state's incumbent U.S. Senator, Republican Norm Coleman. Coleman is the former mayor of St. Paul whose biography proudly boasts that he "engineered the return of a ... [link]

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BUT HE BROUGHT HOCKEY BACK!
Published 7/22/2008 at With Leather
... about senate races around the country is in Minnesota where comedian-cum-blowhard Al Franken is pitted against incumbent Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. Coleman would like to remind voters, who he presumes are gruff bowling alley patrons who shout people down and pelt them with hockey pucks when they deviate from their angry chants, that he was instrumental in getting an NHL franchise back in the state. So remember this November: VOTE FOR HOCKEY OR GET PELTED WITH PUCKS! [Puck Daddy]

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Norm Coleman is the Republican incumbent running in the highly-targeted Minnesota Senate race that pits him against unfunny comedian Al Franken and that rumors circulated would include Jesse Ventura. Apparently, he knows his constituency and wants to remind them he "brought hockey back."
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