Al Franken is in D.C. to celebrate the inaugural–and while he was in town hosted a $1,000-a-plate fundraiser for his recount fund at the Willard Hotel. This was Franken’s first trip to Washington, D.C. since he was declared the winner by 225 votes in the Minnesota Senate race–a status that his opponent, Norm Coleman, is now challenging in court.

The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that Franken was using the trip “to meet with major donors and top party officials, including outgoing Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean.”

Yesterday I got together with one of the gracious people who make Party Time possible, and picked up a manila file folder stuffed with an inch-thick stack of fundraiser fliers. We’ll soon have them input and uploaded into the database, but here’s one I thought worth pulling out — click to see the flier.

The event has already happened, but Sen. Norm Coleman, who narrowly won the first count for his Minnesota Senate seat against Democratic challenger Al Franken, held a fund raiser on Nov. 18 to raise money for the recount battle. That shouldn’t be a shocker. Ten days earlier, his campaign sent around this flier to supporters, including D.C. PACs, looking for volunteers.

The last dramas of Election 2008 have yet to play out — money continues to be raised, and 527s are running political ads in Georgia’s runoff election. But already, the focus on Washington is on the future — on incoming members, on the new administration, and, of course, on the 2010 election.