Senator Al Franken

gue_barium
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edited February 2007 in A Moving Train
Al Franken to run for Minnesota Senate seat.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6416152,00.html
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  • No_ones_rival
    No_ones_rival Posts: 385
    Can't wait til he brings Wellstone's senate seat back to the party it belongs to!!
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  • CorporateWhore
    CorporateWhore Posts: 1,890
    He won't win.
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  • sweet adeline
    sweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    He won't win.

    why not?
  • ThumbingMyWay32
    ThumbingMyWay32 Posts: 1,224
    Al Franken isn't a Senator.
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  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    I think he will win, too.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    If Al Franken and I weren't both married, I would marry him.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    hippiemom wrote:
    If Al Franken and I weren't both married, I would marry him.

    i would step in before him baby!!!! ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I hope he does win, he has a quick mind and they'd be lucky to have him.
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  • hippiemom
    hippiemom Posts: 3,326
    dunkman wrote:
    i would step in before him baby!!!! ;)
    Dunky, you're holding out on those trunk polishing vids! How could I marry a man who won't even do that much for me?
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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,822
    CorporateWhore wrote:
    He won't win.

    Ummm, MN elected a wrestler as their governor!
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,474
    edited July 2019

    The Case of Al Franken

    A close look at the accusations against the former senator.

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken?utm_brand=tny&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_twitter

    Franken asked to meet with Schumer, who suggested talking at his apartment in downtown D.C., in order to avoid the press. “It was like a scene out of a movie,” Franken recalled. Schumer sat on the edge of his bed while Franken and his wife, who had come to lend moral support, pleaded for more time. According to Franken, Schumer told him to quit by 5 p.m.; otherwise, he would instruct the entire Democratic caucus to demand Franken’s resignation. Schumer’s spokesperson denied that Schumer had threatened to organize the rest of the caucus against Franken. But he confirmed that Schumer told Franken that he needed to announce his resignation by five o’clock. Schumer also said that if Franken stayed he could be censured and stripped of committee assignments.

    “I couldn’t believe it,” Franken told me. “I asked him for due process and he said no.”

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    I really hope he gets in!  We need more like Franken. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    What was done to Franken was a joke.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,994
    eddiec said:
    What was done to Franken was a joke.
    Came off (to me anyway) as a bit of a morality play by Gillibrand and others that pushed for Franken's resignation. It was like "See, the Republicans let Trump get away with anything and everything! Not us! Franken wants to act inappropriate in a picture? He gone!" 
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  • PJPOWER
    PJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    Ledbetterman10 said:
    eddiec said:
    What was done to Franken was a joke.
    Came off (to me anyway) as a bit of a morality play by Gillibrand and others that pushed for Franken's resignation. It was like "See, the Republicans let Trump get away with anything and everything! Not us! Franken wants to act inappropriate in a picture? He gone!" 
    I agree, Franken’s thing happened at the worst possible time for him.  I’m not really a fan of him, but everyone deserves due process.
  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    Americans will vote him.  They love sleazy politicians. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,663
    eddiec said:
    What was done to Franken was a joke.
    Yes, a BAD joke.
    Meltdown99 said:
    Americans will vote him.  They love sleazy politicians. 
    Franken is not sleazy.  Where did you come up with that one?  And please, don't tell me it was the boob thing.  I know plenty of very liberated women who make boob jokes.  Franken is very pro-women.  That whole thing was blown up bullshit.
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    He’s a sleazy and wants to be overpaid
    Give Peas A Chance…
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,437
    brianlux said:
    eddiec said:
    What was done to Franken was a joke.
    Yes, a BAD joke.
    Meltdown99 said:
    Americans will vote him.  They love sleazy politicians. 
    Franken is not sleazy.  Where did you come up with that one?  And please, don't tell me it was the boob thing.  I know plenty of very liberated women who make boob jokes.  Franken is very pro-women.  That whole thing was blown up bullshit.
    yeah and on that very same tour that woman he pantomimed grabbing boob on actually went onstage in front of the crowd of military folks and grabbed ass of the country singer preforming at that time.
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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,422
    Way to bump a 12 and a half year old thread

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