Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) announced Thursday morning that he will give a speech about his political future at 11:45 a.m. on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
Amid a national, cross-industry reckoning on sexual harassment and sexual assault, eight women have come forward to accuse Franken of kissing and groping them without their consent—describing incidents from before he entered politics and during his campaign.
Franken has denied some of the accused actions and apologized for others.
Though he initially vowed to stay in the Senate and earn back the trust of his colleagues and constituents, the tipping point came this week after more accusers came forward, and a wave of senators—led by the Senate’s Democratic women—called on him to resign.
Though Franken insisted to local media as recently as Wednesday night that he has not yet made a decision as to whether to step down from his Senate seat, he is widely expected to offer his resignation Thursday morning.
He’ll resign. My wish is that he tells the Democratic Comcast Caucus to fuck off, that he’s staying and fighting for real Net Neutrality and against the ignominious so-call tax reform bill and the gutting of the CFPB. But that ain’t happening. Democrats run when they oughta fight and fight when they oughta deal, and lose, lose lose…
Forget Net neutrality…that’s gone. It’s most powerful advocate is resigning today paving the way for ALL of America can get fucked. Reasonable for “groping a woman’s waist”. You get fucked. I get fucked. reasonable even though I groped no one. If the Democrats restrict themselves to only The Pure they can hang it up. I get that there’s a message to send…“we won’t tolerate it but the GOP will” but at what cost?
If it turns out that many, if not all of these allegations were either grossly exaggerated or made up, will Gillibrand resign? After all, New York has a Democratic governor, so she’d be replaced by a Democrat, right?
Yep, that’s all we do is lose, lose, lose. Throw in the towel, turn the lights off, we’re done for because Al Franken will be out of the Senate. The end of days is here.
Ah speaking of rick rolled from yesterday and other thread today on Rs rick rolling their own on tax bill…Dems rick rolled again…Rs laughing, “Hey we did it again!, this is easy!” Meanwhile James O’Keefe gets award, wonder which of Al’s accusers are connected to him.
Oh well, maybe Al can do some good now that he’ll be free to speak out, write and what not.