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  Under The Dome: Coleman, Dems start war of words
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News DateTuesday, January 30, 2007 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe Minnesota DFL party has Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) in its crosshairs, hoping to take the first-termer down in 2008. And even though the election is still a while off, things are already getting ugly.

The latest tangle started when the DFL party sent out a statement on Thursday blasting Coleman for “blocking” a bill that would increase the minimum wage. “It is discouraging that Republicans like Senator Coleman keep ignoring the American people and blocking this crucial bill,” read the statement by DFL Chairman Brian Melendez. “Senator Coleman had better start putting partisanship aside and standing up for Minnesota’s working families.”

Oopsie. It turns out that Coleman actually voted with Democrats to bring the minimum-wage measure to a vote. A red-faced DFL quickly put out a correction. “We were relying on a source with incorrect information and apologize to Senator Coleman for the error,” the correction read. “We applaud his stand on this important issue.”

But Coleman was not appeased. He issued a release saying that the DFL release had “lied about Coleman’s vote.” It continued: “If DFL Chairman Brian Melendez truly wants to ‘put partisanship aside’ as he says, he may want to start checking the Congressional record before creating his own reality.”

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