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Woman says Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010 (2nd accuser)
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Posted on 11/20/2017 6:19:57 AM PST by TigerClaws

A woman says Sen. Al Franken inappropriately touched her in 2010, telling CNN that he grabbed her buttocks while taking a photo at the Minnesota State Fair.

It is the first allegation of improper touching by Franken, who is a Democrat, while he was in office. It comes just days after Leeann Tweeden, a local radio news anchor in California, said that Franken forcibly kissed and groped her in 2006, when Franken was a comedian.

Franken has since issued an apology to Tweeden and faces a potential investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee.

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KEYWORDS: 2010; alfranken; butt; congresssexscandals; franken; frankensexscandal; leeanntweeden; lindsay; menz; minnesota; scandals; sexpest
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1 posted on 11/20/2017 6:19:57 AM PST by TigerClaws
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Franken has since issued an apology to Tweeden and faces a potential investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee.

Investigation, my ass. Why is he not facing expulsion?

2 posted on 11/20/2017 6:24:20 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: TigerClaws

He is a Demoncrat, They will revoke his gym membership for 3 days as punishment.


3 posted on 11/20/2017 6:24:47 AM PST by mplc51
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To: TigerClaws

If there is no picture, he’ll deny it.


4 posted on 11/20/2017 6:25:05 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Texas Eagle

I was listening to Mike Levin, I know, I apologize, but he said that there has not been a single disciplinary action on a single person under investigation. He also said that it takes an average of 9 years to do the investigations. So basically, the entire investigation thing means they don’t care.


5 posted on 11/20/2017 6:25:45 AM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
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To: TigerClaws
I hope this isn't the big kerfuffle about a pending new allegation regarding a top level senator that we read about last night.

If so, its another big nothing burger. Al Franken? everyone knows he's an aggressive homosexual with a penchant for pissing off womxn . . .

6 posted on 11/20/2017 6:25:49 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Texas Eagle

There have been something like 600 ‘investigations’ in the last 30 years and no expulsions resulted.

It’s a ‘kick the can down the road’ play out the clock stall and let the storm blow over tactic.

Funny seeing leftists online say the first victim was asking for it because she was a Playboy model. Wut?!


7 posted on 11/20/2017 6:26:01 AM PST by TigerClaws
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Inappropriate touching? Joe Biden did this kind of thing daily as VP.


8 posted on 11/20/2017 6:26:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: TigerClaws

Uh, I believe this is actually the third accuser, isn’t it?


9 posted on 11/20/2017 6:26:34 AM PST by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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I don’t care. I’m no franken fan, but this stuff is getting just stupid.

Give me some hard evidence or shut up. You look stupid.


10 posted on 11/20/2017 6:27:06 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: pcottraux

Yep.


11 posted on 11/20/2017 6:27:57 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: TigerClaws

Menendez is still there. That’s all you need to know.


12 posted on 11/20/2017 6:27:59 AM PST by mindburglar (I have an above average brain stem)
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To: mplc51
Will Franken get his franking privileges revoked?
13 posted on 11/20/2017 6:28:27 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: TigerClaws

This will allow Big Media to equate Franken with the Coward Brother Bushes’ father.


14 posted on 11/20/2017 6:29:38 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Texas Eagle

Dems have double standards. I guess they figure better double standards then no at all!


15 posted on 11/20/2017 6:29:59 AM PST by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: pcottraux

I don’t care if it is the 500th, and I don’t care if it’s franken, Moore, Pence or Lincoln. If there is no evidence, they can talk to the hand.

And nowadays video evidence will be easy to acquire.

I will say that if I was an attractive woman that was considering working for him, this may give me second thoughts, but how a candidate seeking my vote treats women who are not his wife is irrelevant to me unless one of the following is true:
1. There is evidence beyond verbal claims by the woman.
2. He admits it.

This is nothing more than a distraction - and intellectually insulting.


16 posted on 11/20/2017 6:30:13 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: TigerClaws

Franken is inappropriately considered a human being.


17 posted on 11/20/2017 6:30:14 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: MNDude
I was listening to Mike Levin

What...is he a talk show host or something?

18 posted on 11/20/2017 6:30:24 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: mplc51

And take away his Bloomingdale’s charge card!


19 posted on 11/20/2017 6:31:33 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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A classic sophomorish punk with a mind full of potty humor.


20 posted on 11/20/2017 6:32:56 AM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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