Norm, that is one hell of a nice suit.
Hey everybody, take a look at Norm's suit, the guy sure dresses GOP, doesn't he? Dick, come on, it's nothing, really - $249.95 off the rack and not a gift worth over $250, the ethics reporting limit - I report everything I'm required to report, ask my campaign.
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On June 27, 2008, Wonkette earlier reported,
“I rent a cramped bedroom from him, with no kitchen. … It’s a place to lay my head,” the senator told a reporter.
In a July 11, 2008, followup "down-low on Coleman's digs in upscale D.C. neighborhood," Strib reported:
The bed almost fills the 10-by-10 space, leaving only a several-foot-wide walking space between the bed and the closet. Photos, including one of his family alongside President Bush, line the walls.
Squeezed between the end of the bed and the wall is a bench with a table and laptop dock in the corner. The neatly organized closet was all business: collared shirts, dress suits and a pile of black shoes on the floor. Jay Winik's "The Great Upheaval" sat on the makeshift bedside table.
That line, "The neatly organized closet was all business: ... dress suits ..." in its own way was prescient. Having those suits, part of Norm Coleman's business such as it is, all business?
What we do know: Sen. Coleman complies with Senate gift reporting, etc., or that's the official word from the campaign staff, at present, the repeated word. I link to the Blue Man post, as it was what I saw first of the friends-give-to-friends GOP friend-in, Norm's 21st century redo of his Hofstra hippie love-in days. In the GOP, you make friends. Links are all over the place, those I've seen indicate PiPress's Rachel Stassen-Berger and Dave Orrick blew the story first, locally - with Stassen-Berger being the questioner in the stone-wall, every stone's the same quote. See here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
I don't think I put any link in there twice - I tried to be careful, but so many ...
Suits sometimes grow legs.
That press interview transcript seems the most popular online transcript since the O.J. murder trial - Coleman spokesman says, "If the suit don't fit, you gotta acquit."
And the Laurie Coleman job thing with Hays Companies proves, old news sometimes still is good news.