Democratic Sen. Al Franken finally bowed to the inevitable:
Sen. Al Franken said he would resign from the U.S. Senate on Thursday following mounting allegations of sexual harassment and loss of support by fellow Democrats, a stunning and rapid fall for a Minnesota politician who followed decades as a successful TV comic with a rise to the highest echelons of U.S. political power.
Note: “Would” resign. Franken hasn’t actually resigned yet. That’s coming…sometime?
Did Gropenfuhrer Franken admit to any sexual wrongdoing? Not so much.
“I know there’s been a very different picture of me painted through the last few weeks, but I know who I really am,” Franken said. Of the claims against him by more than half a dozen women, he said: “Some of the allegations aren’t true. Others I remember differently.”
Just for the record, here’s another woman who said she’d been groped by Franklin. “It happened at a Media Matters party during the first Obama inauguration.” That’s just too perfect. If I were writing this as fiction, an editor would have penciled “Too on-the-nose. Tone down!” in the margin. (But be aware that writer is pretty high on the “liberal drama queen” spectrum…)
Tune in tomorrow for more exciting congressional sexual harassment resignations!
This is another case of “Everyone Knew.” Franken has long been infamous for his incivility but I heard stories when I lived in liberal Minneapolis about him being a sexist pig at private dinner functions, slapping waitresses on their bottoms, etc. Of course, everyone looked the other way and did nothing about it; it was more important that they build a national Democratic majority, defeat Bushitler, etc.
franken isn’t going anywhere
he is waiting to see what happens with roy moore. I would gladly beat the s**t out of franken but the boy does deserve due process, like ALL accused