Minessota Democrats Exposed's Mike Brodkorb and the Minnesota GOP are making mincemeat out of the latest rabid liberal anti-Coleman smear by a group with ties to DFL U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed an ethics complaint against Coleman alleging that the freshman Minnesota Senator's living arrangements on Capitol Hill violate Senate rules.
Coleman pays $600 a month for a basement apartment in the town home of political consultant Jeff Larson. CREW wants the Senate Ethics Committe to determine if Coleman is paying rent at a "fair market value" and if two missing rent payments would have been made had the magazine National Journal not flagged them.
While CREW makes a big stink about Norm's $600 a month rent for a small basement bedroom and bathroom, they are strangely silent on Democratic Sen. Schumer's $750 a month rent for a full house.
Could it be because at least two of CREW's board members have contributed to Franken's and Schumer's campaigns? Real Clear Politics reports that board member John Luongo has contributed $2,000 to Franken and board member Daniel Berger forked a whopping $44,500 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The Minnesota GOP noted that CREW's executive director, Melanie Sloan "worked as counsel for the House Judiciary Committee's crime subcommittee when it was chaired by then-Rep.Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who now chairs the DSCC."
That dog won't hunt. Liberals and their surrogates are trying to distract the electorate from Franken's numerous ethical shennanigans to no avail.
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