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!
Tags: Al Franken, Democrats, sex offender
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