The new Norm-Al: The bad news continues for Coleman

By GottaLaff

Toker Norm's political career is slowly but surely going up in smoke (pun intended):

Former Sen. Norm Coleman's political and legal problems over the security breach at his campaign website may get worse, with new questions about whether his team violated state law by not reporting the problems earlier.

The campaign's disclosure Wednesday night that a hacker may have gained access to about 5,000 donors' financial information will almost certainly deter new online contributions, further hindering Coleman's ability to raise money for the ongoing recount lawsuit against Democrat Al Franken.

Oh noes! What a Norm-tastrophe! Al may actually become Senator before 2010!

On the legal side, experts say there's a valid question about whether the campaign violated a state law that requires any person or business that conducts business in the state to notify consumers immediately that their personal information has been breached. As early as Jan. 28, Minnesota bloggers reported that personal security information could be downloaded by anyone after a brief crash of the Coleman for Senate website. [...]

On top of that, there's a question about whether the Coleman campaign was allowed by state law to retain the full credit card information and security codes of their online contributors — and whether the data were properly encrypted.

Norm Coleman: A human atomizer of Eau de Loser.