In response to the fact that his apartment rental in DC is at well below market rates, and does not include utilities from a lobbyist, he is saying that, “I gotta tell you, people of Minnesota actually appreciate the fact that I live humbly as a senator — that I’m not living the way some people think senators live.”
The classic definition of Chutzpah is killing your parents and asking for mercy as an orphan. Norm Coleman may very well have beat that classic out.
What a bloody weasel.