Washington – Minnesota Sen. Al Franken is resigning amid multiple misconduct allegations.
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Once a rising star in the Democratic Party, Franken made the announcement in a speech Thursday on the Senate floor.
“I know in my heart that nothing I’ve done as a senator – nothing – has brought dishonor on this institution,” Franken said on the Senate floor. “Nevertheless, today I am announcing that in the coming weeks, I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate.”
The two-term lawmaker has repeatedly apologized as several women stepped forward to accuse him of nappropriate behavior.
But a fresh allegation on Wednesday unleashed a torrent of Democratic demands that Franken step aside. Female senators led the chorus.
Franken is an actor who appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and an author who narrowly won his Senate seat in 2008 after a prolonged vote count. He has been a fierce opponent of the Trump administration.
His political fall has been swift by congressional standards. The first allegation surfaced on Nov. 16.
tick…tick…tick…Moore…tick…tick…tick…Trump.
Anybody else see this week’s Time story new story revealing showing that Republicans are much, much less believing of women who allege sexual misconduct than are Democrats. Ah…the GOP, the Party of Morality!
G-d sees all. This lowlife voted against Israel last time, and now we get to see his downfall. One down, the rest of the hateful and crooked dems to go, ,,
GOOD RIDDENS TO THIS LIBERAL ,POMPOUS,MORON !
Ultimately the Dems forced this bum out, while the morally backrupt GOP and weird alt-yidden support twice evicted ‘judge’ Moore and the King of the Gropers, schmutz Trumpfz. Feh.
don’t let the door hit you on the way out you pervert. one less liberal Jew in the Senate 9 to go.
OK, these men accused are pigs. However, what about the women? Are they all victims? In Jewish law, a man is not allowed to seclude himself with a woman (called ‘yichud’). So what were these women thinking when they agreed to come up to the man’s hotel room and have a vodka? Don’t they know that hormones run thru a man at a time like this with vigor? And they agreed to meet a man this way, and expect the man to behave like they were a piece of furniture. And the way women dress nowadays, that shouldn’t be a factor? Gimme a break !
Allen Dulles, john foster Dulles were Hitler’s lawyer that is high morality, the h’ll with 6 million Jews and over 1 million jewish children murdered , paragon of morality and decency, ymsh
why do Dems always blame somebody else like this pervert said but our president also has ALLEGATIONS of something similar.
One great day after the next! BH!
The terrible actor turned politician should go back to TV
Poor Hashomer, Yanasonw, Yasmar & his other 8 screen names his/their hero was forced to resign
Could someone explain to me what exactly took so long? Does he still deny that he is a perv?
It’s been a very bad few weeks for liberals. They can’t seem to get out of their own way.
To #13 -You are an idiot for blaming the victims in this case, alleging that their behavior “and the way that they dress” brought on the actions of the perpetrators. Do you also blame the victims in Yeshivahs who are sexually abused by principals, teachers, etc?
Archy and all you heimishe beheimas who voted for Agent Orange are gonna eat your words come the midterm elections in 2018. The Republicons are liars and cheats who conned the uneducated Archie Bunkers all over the US and will vote for the Democrats so they’ll be the majority in both Houses. Why do you think Mueller is schelpping this out till then? I hope the Democrats wipe all you guys away and I happen to be a true Bill Buckley conservative not like the phonies who are on the dole of almost every gov’t program that’s out there!
Well, whaddaya know? Newt Gingrich and a bunch of conservatives are now defending Franken that he was railroaded by a Democratic lynch mob without due process. Hear that, Uneducated Archy Bunker?