Once again, these people are idiots. It’s no wonder Dems do not have control of government atm.
These are NOT serious allegations! Tweeden’s is BS from the start. The others are either anonymous or not credible.
Keep calling for his resignation and kiss a Dem majority goodbye you assholes.
I’m confident he will make the right decision as well. The right decision is to wait for the Ethics Committee process to conclude, and to ensure that ALL ALLEGATIONS ARE FROM PERSONS WHO ARE IDENTIFIED.
Now things come down to this, I hope Franken will be proven innocent (as I believe he is, from what I know thus far) and make those idiots look bad.
Why is the Fuckin’ Moron still in the Oval, Senators? Why it it that you’ve sounded far less passionate about calling for him to resign?
Sadly i wish i was confident that he would do the right thing and not resign but i am not that confident.
I don’t think the democratic party knows the meaning of sexual harassment. None of these women worked for Franken. Franken did not have any control over their lives. He touched them inappropriately, which he apologized for. None of the cases are even in the same category as sexual harassment.
Meanwhile the sexual predator remains in the White House and the entire GOP is pushing to elect a pedophile.
What a country.
The writing is on the wall. Franken will resign. We’ll have to let him go – but I can’t say that his departure will inspire any confidence that we are going to win back the Senate or presidency if our leaders are always running scared. Roy Moore will be seated and not one republican will challenge him.
ONCE AGAIN NO!. I know your defending him but lets get the dam story straight. He HAS NEVER ADMITTED TO TOUCHING PEOPLE INAPPROPRIATELY!
Anyone want to take a guess which of our democratic leaders and valued journalists are at this very moment the subjects of intense fascist smear campaigns – just waiting to be sprung at just the right opportunity? Disappearing Franken will not be the end of it. The attacks will increase because it will have been proven to work. Decapitation.
And it ain’t just men. Any woman senator could be labeled a lesbian sex assaulter. I’m a little surprised it hasn’t happened yet.
How many of the women calling for his resignation have Presidential aspirations? This is a clean way of eliminating competition. My love for Kamala Harris is dying.
Looks like I’ll be changing my registration to Independent. Screw this pansy ass BS.
This is quite demoralizing, tbh.
Self-loathing Dems decide to show the world just how willing they are to self-immolate for the sake of being “not-republicans”. No one endorses or encourages sexual harassment, but asking Franken to go buy the rope, tie the noose and put it on himself is ridiculous. There’s no comparison in how he behaved and that of the Orange Shitgibbon and Roy Moron. Franken should seriously apologize and perhaps work to strengthen whistleblower laws/rules that protect women from the fallout after going public. It really is astounding to see how willing Dems are to shoot themselves in the head while saying, “See? See how awesome we are for being our own policemen?”, or something to that effect. Sigh.
Once again though, apologize for what? He already apologized for the photo and for making anyone feel bad if they did, but if he is actually groping people then what is he supposed to apologize for? Also he already has been working on strengthening protections for women.
The sex accusation is just one technique to bring down an opponent – there are many other ways to negatively spin something in a person’s past or shit can be invented. In the case of the sex accusation – simply not responding quick enough or damning enough to a colleague being accused is enough to attract the smear on one’s self. We’ve seen this happen already. This fate is what all these senators are trying to protect themselves from - but it won’t work in the long run. if they become any significant political force, the right wing will smear them just the same.
Call me cynical, but if Minnesota had a Republican governor would these Democratic Senators be on this bandwagon?