At a campaign stop in Iowa Friday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who said Tuesday that she will run for President, was asked about her December 2017 call on former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to resign in light of multiple groping allegations.
Dozens of Democratic senators ultimately called on Franken to resign, and he did eventually announce his resignation in December 2017. In her response to the question Friday, captured below by The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel, Gillibrand said that in light of mounting credible allegations against Franken, “I couldn’t remain silent anymore.”
Gillibrand got a Q about Al Franken tonight in Sioux City; here's how she answered. pic.twitter.com/Ou7pfoTmZj
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 19, 2019
Hell with her.
I was thinking about this on MLK’s birthday. He was a great man, but not a perfect man. In the light of his accomplishments, we need not detail or dwell upon his failings, but he must be considered in the totality of his actions and their consequences. By that measure, I can safely say that MLK was truly a great man. Kirsten Gillibrand deserves to have this, I think, rather rash and potentially political act, evaluated in the light of her broader actions . . . but so did Al Franken. It was the failure to do this that still raises my ire every time I think about this mess.
She’ll never have my support.
Sorry, Senator, your’s was the only actual witch hunt in DC…
I’m sure it was painful to clear the decks for her Presidential run.