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WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Teamsters Joint Council 32 and Teamsters Local 120 PAC today announced their endorsements of Al Franken for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. The endorsements follow Senator Norm Coleman's recent opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) and his continued failure to represent the interests of Minnesota's working families.
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Franken speaks candidly about his hopes and apprehensions. He wants to carry on the progressive legacy of his friend, the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, who was killed in a plane crash just days before he was to face down Coleman in the 2002 midterms. Franken was at Wellstone's memorial service and was enraged by the way the event was misrepresented by the right-wing media and cynically exploited by the Coleman campaign. He exposed these distortions in a scathing chapter of his 2003 bestseller, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them."
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The MPR poll ... reveals that Al Franken has a large lead over the other DFL candidates. In the battle for the nomination Al beats Mike Ciresi 32% to 28% 42% to 18% [edit: bad typo] with Cohen and Pallmeyer at 2% and 3% respectively. Still, 35% of those polled indicated that they have yet to make up their mind. Interestingly, Franken also does the best against Coleman of all the candidates. While Al bests Coleman 43.2% to 40%, a Ciresi/Coleman match-up comes out in Coleman’s favor 43% to 38%.
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Norm Coleman for Senate took a full-page ad and a cheap shot at Al Franken in the September 25th issue of The Minneapolis Star Tribune. The headline on the ad is: "Ridiculous." Norm's team is evidently highly indignant that Franken called the Senate's MoveOn.org vote, "Ridiculous."
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Franken has said previously that he was considering a bid to unseat Coleman, a moderate Republican and former St. Paul mayor who was elected to the Senate in 2002. During the 2006 midterm election, Franken's political action committee, the Midwest Values PAC, raised money for Democratic candidates across the North Star State.
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Franken has had little good to say about his potential opponent. In his latest book, "The Truth (with jokes)," he criticized Coleman in not-so-flattering terms for his former chairmanship of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
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