Norm Coleman's wife using Norm's Senate title to sell Blo and Go jobs

[Minnesota Raindog]

We've all heard about Laurie Coleman's venture into the business world with her Blo and Go hair-dryer holder:

http://www.bloandgo.com/Default.asp?bhcp=1

But now it appears Laurie is using her long-distance hubby's senatorial status to shill for her Blo and Go jobs. Check out her, um, descriptive sales pitch from her website:

Anyone who has ever tried to style his or her hair by wielding a blow-dryer in one hand and a brush in the other knows that it can be an exasperating juggling act. The challenge of an at-home blowout is what inspired, former runway model and wife of U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, Laurie Coleman to invent the Blo & Go, a hair-dryer holster. For years, Coleman had been jury-rigging wire coat hangers into holders for her blow-dryer so she could use both hands to style her hair. "You go on a trip with senators and you have 45 minutes and you have to be ready to go," says Coleman, who doesn't have the luxury of traveling with a hairstylist. "Norm's not going to blow-dry my hair." Her makeshift holsters were awkward, but they worked. That led a friend, Anthony Turk, who is now her business partner, to encourage her to develop and manufacture the device. It took four years of working with a product designer, but you can now get a Blo & Go for $29.99. Coleman is a former model, mother of two and a onetime actress -- "Homeland Security," "Three Days of Rain." The Blo & Go device doesn't grip the nozzle of the blow-dryer; instead, it cradles the handle. It holds by suction to any flat surface such as a mirror.


Since the Rethuglicans and Norm's mouthpiece, Michael Brodkorb, are making such an issue out of Al Franken's income reporting, inquiring minds want to know why Laurie's business venture doesn't show up on Norm's Senate disclosure form (since Laurie claims the business has been in development for four years):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/congress/fin_dis/2006/c001057.pdf

[dflprincess]

1. This article really leaves far too many openings

I don't even know where to begin.

[Minnesota Raindog]

2. It just keeps getting better

http://www.boomergirl.com/stories/2008/jan/26/senate_wife_wall_hair_idea/

Against the backdrop of this kind of marketing savvy, it is hard to believe that the name Blo & Go was not chosen to, at the very least, amuse. This, after all, is a world in which the words "wide stance" churns up easy chuckles.

Coleman's voice registers shock — and dismay — that anyone would make such a connection. "I didn't think of that," she says. Then she points out that the name wasn't even her idea. It came out of a committee. It was all in the brainstorming, during which "Freedom Styler" was rejected. And so it went: You get your hair blown out. You need a blowout. You get blown ... out. And then you go. Bingo: "Blo & Go!"

Coleman's portable little device doesn't grip the nozzle of the blow-dryer; instead, it cradles the handle. It holds by suction to any flat surface such as a mirror. "I needed something of great quality that was really going to stay up," she says. "The whole key to this is the suction.":evilgrin:

[dflprincess]

3. Oh dear God

Ya just can't make this stuff up.

You have to send this to Stephanie Miller's show I'm sure they could have a great time with this.

[dpbrown]

5. Hey Laurie - that's what Normie tells his Congressional pages, too

:rofl:

[NothingButTheTruth]

4. OMG - You Won't Believe This One!!!

TwoPutt Tommy posted this, over on www.MnBlue.com ...

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Unreported Business Income

Well, the republiCons are busy, tossin' crap up against the wall, to see what sticks.

Hey - sounds like fun!

Wait'll the state o' California gets my letter!!!

Selvi Stanislaus, Executive Drirector
California State Franchise Tax Board
P. O. Box 1565
Rancho Cordova CA 95741

Dear Ms. Stanislaus,

A couple of months ago, it was widely reported that Laurie Coleman, wife of Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman, was actively engaged in selling Blo ‘n Go’s in the State of California.

I invite your attention to Laurie Coleman’s website:

http://www.bloandgo.com

Senator Coleman’s United States Senate Financial Disclosure Form doesn’t list Laurie Coleman’s involvement in selling these Blo jobs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/congress/fin_dis/2006/c001057.pdf

Clearly, the number of these Blo jobs Laurie Colemen has sold, and how much money she has made from said Blo jobs, is unaccounted for.

This will require significant investigation to determine Laurie Coleman’s involvement in selling Blo jobs.

Your prompt attention is appreciated.

Sincerely,

TwoPutt Tommy

[Minnesota Raindog]

6. Norm Coleman's paid mouthpiece Michael Brodkorb has his undies in a bunch over Blo and Go

http://www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com/2008/04/29/my-fact-based-response-to-a-disgusting-vile-and-factually-false-attack-on-senator-colemans-wife/


Rethuglicans can sure dish it out, but try and throw a little mud back their way and they cry foul. Funny how Brodkorb runs to the Coleman campaign for his "fact-based response." And his faux outrage at the double entendres that present themselves with a product from Norm Coleman's wife called "Blo and Go"--a product she uses Norm to promote--is almost laughable.
:nopity:

[dflprincess]

7. I did so enjoy the posts taking TwoPutt Tommy to task for

making "vulgar and vile comments about someone’s wife and the mother of someone’s kids" and

"I will tell you that my brothers would have kicked the snot out of me for ever having made the kind of comments you made about a woman, a Mom and a wife — and my Mom and Dad would have both been ashamed."

And I thought chivalry was dead. They remind me of the scene in "Analyze This" when Rober DeNiro is explaing to Billy Crystal that he has to have a mistress because his wife "kisses my kids goodnight with that mouth". No doubt these defenders of women feel the same way.

[NothingButTheTruth]

8. More Bloggers Covering This Story

Developers Are Crabgrass has an interesting take on this: the Strib is covering for Norm.

http://zaetsch.blogspot.com/2008/04/time-to-call-out-star-tribune-for.html

[annm4peace]

9. this needs to be copied to General Discussion

I think the whole DU would be interested in this !