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Posted on 11/16/2017 6:52:55 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
The Twin Cities woman who helped Senator Al Franken draft a new bill to aid sexual assault victims now hopes someone else can champion the legislation.
The bill was designed to provide funding for training first responders on ways of interviewing victims who have been traumatized.
Just last month, Abby Honold stood side-by-side with Franken at a press conference announcing the bill.
Then came the bombshell report Thursday morning.
A Los Angeles radio anchor said Franken forcibly kissed her during a 2006 USO tour. Leeann Tweeden also said Franken posed for a photo with his hands on her breasts as she slept - a photo that was made public.
“I was really heartbroken and disgusted, and I really wanted to send support to the victims involved,” she said.
The 22-year-old Honold first approached the senator’s office, in part, because her attacker Daniel Drill-Mellum was once an intern for Franken.
He’s now serving a six-year prison sentence for raping her after a University of Minnesota tailgate party. A nurse, who is specially trained in interviewing traumatized victims, helped detectives build their case. “I truly believe that my rapist would not be in prison if I had not encountered the sexual assault nurse at the hospital,” Honold said.
That special training is what Franken’s bill would have funded when introduced after Thanksgiving.
But Honold said it would be irresponsible now for his office to move forward.
“I don’t want this bill, which could help so many people, to be associated with this kind of behavior,” she said.
She now hopes Sen. Amy Klobuchar can take it over - or anyone for that matter.
Honold just doesn’t want the legislation to die.
Hmmm...
Akin to the proposed gun legislation that requires everyone to abide by the existing gun laws, is that gal proposing a bill to require obeying the sexual assault laws already in place? How about a law require everyone to obey all the laws? Ooops, sorry about that sanctuary cities.
Had you read the article...
“The bill was designed to provide funding for training first responders on ways of interviewing victims who have been traumatized.”
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Al Franken: Federal Breast Inspector
“The bill was designed to provide funding for training first responders on ways of interviewing victims who have been traumatized.”
I’m not finding that as a specifically enumerated power of the Fededral government anywhere in my copy of th Constitution.
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Never mind. LOL
And why did she go to Franken instead of the chick senator?
Probably because he has been feigning support for women’s issues while in office.
She chose poorly.
Yeah. Daniel Drill Mellum is a dirtbag and so is his enabling senator. Mom and dad are docs and have big money probably big contributors to scumbag Franken.
Drill-Mellum
Always beware of the hyphenateds.
I’m still waiting for Ben Stein to make a comment about this.
I won’t hold my breath.
Biden/Franken - 2020
The child molester ticket.
That’s Minnesota for you, the Jihad Central, crime-ridden, Democrat/Marxist ruined state (look at Minneapolis and tell me you want to live there).
There has been a long collusion between the so-called Democrats and state Marxists since the 40’s and it plays out in the underground political scene. When it surfaces, we get guys like Rep. Don Fraser (who was certifiably crazy), Franken, Secy of State Mark Ritchie (Ritchie, redder than red), and isn’t loverboy Ellison from there?
Oh, come on...
We’re not Chicago.
;-)
But you’re working hard at it. When was the last time you had a sane police chief in Minneapolis? Mayor? Dogcatcher?
Re: Ben Stein. As a Minnesota Conservative, I have never forgiven Stein for contributing money to Al’s first senate campaign.
Stein is OK in other ways, but supporting Al was not funny, and should have been obviously unrewarding. Franken was a dirt bag long before he was a Senator.
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