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Sen. Al Franken vows to regain Minnesota's trust after harassment allegations
startribune.com ^ | 11/24/17 | Jennifer Brooks

Posted on 11/24/2017 10:47:52 AM PST by ColdOne

WASHINGTON – Sen. Al Franken plans to stay in the U.S. Senate and try to win back Minnesotans’ trust.

The Minnesota Democrat, who has been accused by four women — two of them anonymously — of inappropriate contact, issued a Thanksgiving afternoon apology and pledge. He wrote that he “feels terribly that I’ve made some women feel badly.” He called himself “a warm person” who likes to hug people when they’re being photographed with him, but clearly, his embrace “crossed a line for some women.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: alfranken; minnesota
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How can you regain trust in a man whole stole his elections?
1 posted on 11/24/2017 10:47:52 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

He can regain their trust by doing what the democrats ask republicans to do- Resign and apologize!


2 posted on 11/24/2017 10:49:18 AM PST by Moorings
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To: ColdOne

I was pretty sure he’s lost his “Franken’ privileges, but it looks like I was wrong.


3 posted on 11/24/2017 10:49:57 AM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: ColdOne

Really, if (and probably when) the dimbulbcrats cheat their way back into the majority, our resistance will have to real. We are in trouble, folks, when a dimwit (and truly fugly) being like Franken not only becomes a member of the world’s most loathsome body, but he actually out loathsomes Dead Ted Kennedy.


4 posted on 11/24/2017 10:50:16 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ColdOne

How can it be called “allegations” when there are photos showing him doing it and smiling about it???


5 posted on 11/24/2017 10:51:00 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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How can you regain trust in a man whole stole his elections?

We need yet another Franken groper photoshop - grabbing ballot boxes.
6 posted on 11/24/2017 10:51:31 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: ColdOne

He’s going to “Hug Everyone” until they submit


7 posted on 11/24/2017 10:51:43 AM PST by butlerweave
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Polidiots ..... doom on em


8 posted on 11/24/2017 10:51:51 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: ColdOne

Harassment? Assault!


9 posted on 11/24/2017 10:53:57 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: ColdOne

Somewhere a nutty liberal woman is wondering why Franken didn’t grope her. She’s thinking he needs to stay in office so she can get that chance to be a victim.


10 posted on 11/24/2017 10:54:41 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: ColdOne

Only Democrats get “do-overs”


11 posted on 11/24/2017 10:56:20 AM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: Da Coyote

You are correct. The left, after the past years of absolute criminal insanity, cannot, can never be permitted to ascend to power. They will be the nightmare we always knew they were.


12 posted on 11/24/2017 10:56:28 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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[How can it be called “allegations” when there are photos showing him doing it and smiling about it???]

Because he’s a Democrat.


13 posted on 11/24/2017 10:57:11 AM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: ColdOne

For some odd reason, I suspect that neither this newspaper nor any other in the biased media would print an article about “Judge Moore vows to regain trust” even though all the allegations against him are 40 years old, denied and unproven.


14 posted on 11/24/2017 10:58:13 AM PST by laconic
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“I will personally grab the breasts of every man woman and child in Minnesota until they understand that I’m harmless.” Franken went on to say.


15 posted on 11/24/2017 10:58:24 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: JBW1949

The Photo doesn’t count.

The photo is of a Saturday Night Live comedy routine writ live. SNL is free speech art exempt from such charges. In the photo, the Senator is acting, not harassing.

Don’t you get it? /s


16 posted on 11/24/2017 11:01:17 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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"I ask for unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks, behavior, and stories"

Every speech is prefaced with that wualifier.

17 posted on 11/24/2017 11:01:18 AM PST by blackdog
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To: ColdOne

Nothing gets the trust of a Minnesota Democrat like some cold, hard cash.

Ask Soros for a few million bucks, Al.


18 posted on 11/24/2017 11:05:39 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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How can you regain trust in a man whole stole his elections?

Franken is 66 years old and he's been a slime bucket his entire life.

What trust does he hope to regain?
Who ever trusted him to begin with?
Maybe the wife and kids, that's about it.

Conservatives never trusted him and democrats didn't care that he couldn't be trusted as long as he ran with the pack.

He had no compunction about stealing an election back in 2009.
Before that he had no compunction about groping a lady while she was asleep.

But now that he has been publicly outed as a sexual molester he discovered that he wants to be a good person?
So now he's going to change his ways?

He's a typical democrat - when they say they are sorry it only means they are sorry they got caught.


19 posted on 11/24/2017 11:20:13 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (United We Stand - Divided We Fall. Remember: Diversity is the opposite of unity.)
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In other words, let him get away with what he did.


20 posted on 11/24/2017 11:24:50 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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