Oh my, now this would be different...
Al Franken drags out Senate departure, only mentions ‘transition’ after replacement named
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken resigned from Congress two weeks ago amid continuing sexual-misconduct allegations. However, he’s yet to say when he’ll empty his Capitol Hill office, even after his replacement was appointed earlier this week.
“Tina Smith will make an excellent United States senator. … I look forward to working with her on ensuring a speedy and seamless transition,” Franken said after the state lieutenant governor was appointed, without mentioning when he’ll leave.
In his Dec. 7 resignation speech, Franken said only that he’ll be leaving in the “coming weeks.”
Multiple people on Capitol Hill, including those in Senate leadership, told Fox News that they doesn’t know when Franken will leave.
“I’ll be coming home,” was Franken’s only response to a question after future plans, after his Senate floor resignation speech.
Franken was back at work this week, casting votes in the Senate, participating in a committee hearing, attending a senators-only luncheon with Democrats and even posing for a picture with a group of high school students.
The two-term senator, first elected in 2008, had initially intended to let a Senate ethics committee investigate the allegations against him.
However, a seventh claim on Dec. 6., by a woman claiming Franken tried to forcibly kiss her in 2006, resulted in a chorus of female Democratic senators -- including New York’s Kirsten Gillibrand and California’s Kamal Harris -- calling for his resignation, effectively forcing his departure.
Franken, in his speech, noted his original plan regarding an ethics investigation, which he thought would help. And he argued that “some of the allegations against me are simply not true. Others, I remember very differently.”
Franken also suggested that him leaving elected office while President Trump remains in the Oval Office after bragged on tape about his history of sexual misconduct is "ironic."
You do know that not only is this not your state --- it's not even your country. You know that, right?
I mean I don't see a whole lot of posts here about some riding in Alberta.
Canadians should be concerned. When America prospers, so does the rest of the world, especially our illustrious neighbors to the North.
True enough, but this guy is posting about minutiae of a US state Congresscritter's tenure. That's got zippo to do with "when America (by which we assume you mean only the US part of it) prospers".
No, he's right. The sooner we get the obstructionists voted out of the state representatives, the sooner we can get on with this greatening of America. The only thing people like Franken and my own representative Tammy Baldwin do, is vote against everything the Republicans are for: That's the entire purpose they serve: To be against something. They're never for anything, just against everything.
The shitheads need to go.
Actually that's not for you to say. It's for the citizens of Minnesota. And you just admitted to being in Wiscaaaaaaaahhhhnsin.