Coleman campaign: Senator's garage vandalized

[TheSarge]

ST. PAUL (AP) - A spokesman for Sen. Norm Coleman says that vandals wrote graffiti on the garage of his St. Paul home that called the senator "scum" and a "criminal."

Coleman and his wife, Laurie, live in the Crocus Hill neighborhood of St. Paul. Spokesman Mark Drake says Wednesday morning that grafitti left on the outside of the garage says: "You are a criminal resign or else"; "Scum," which is written three times; and "Psalm 2."

Coleman is a former mayor of St. Paul, and has lived in the home on a residential street near the Victoria's Crossing shopping area for almost 20 years.

A spokesman for the St. Paul Police Department didn't immediately return a call seeking more information on the incident.

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Anyone know where Al Franken was in the last 24 hours?

[jinxmchue]

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/32329244.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUo8cyaiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

At least four other Minnesota Congress members have been vandalized in similar fashion: U.S. Reps. Keith Ellison, John Kline, Michele Bachmann and Jim Ramstad. Of those, Ellison is the sole Democrat.

Ellison's appears to be the only incident so far in which the home itself was vandalized. Campaign manager Larry Weiss said that Ellison's wife, Kim, went out this morning and found graffiti that said "Traitor. Resign now. Psalm 2" across the side of their corner home. The word "SCUM" was spraypainted above the garage door -- high enough, Weiss said, that the culprit probably would have needed a stepstool.