Let's Check: Why would anyone so demand the resignation of Sen Franken?

[Wwcd]

https://www.alfranken.com/issues/consumers_privacy_netneutrality/

Of course. The vote on Net Neutrality is coming soon.
Typical RW smear for self promotion.

CONSUMERS, PRIVACY, & NET NEUTRALITY

Al has become one of the Senate’s foremost champions for consumers, leading the fight to keep cable, Internet, and cell phone rates low; preserve the free flow of information in America; and oppose corporate actions that would threaten our privacy, our anti-trust laws, or our democracy.

Drawing on his experience in the media industry, Al has taken a leadership role in opposing the recent trend towards media consolidation—fighting against mergers that would lead to less choice and higher prices for Minnesota consumers carefully watching their cable, Internet, and cell phone bills.

Al is also the Senate’s leading defender of net neutrality—the principle that the Internet should be free and open to everyone, and that content should move at the same speed online no matter who owns it.
Telecom corporations are intent on changing the rules so that they can prioritize content they own or select—but this would give a few powerful corporations far too much control over what Minnesotans can see and do online, and

Al regards protecting the free and open Internet as the most important First Amendment issue of our time.

Minnesota families are also concerned with their privacy online, especially as the advent of new technology outpaces existing privacy protections in our laws.

As the chairman of a new subcommittee charged with protecting our privacy rights in an era of evolving technology, Al is devoted to ensuring that consumers are treated fairly—and that families can count on effective privacy protections.
He is fighting to protect families’ privacy by passing legislation to crack down on “stalking apps” that can track a person’s location for sale to advertisers or worse.

Meanwhile, Al remains deeply concerned about the effects of the Citizens United decision, which opened the floodgates for corporations to buy our elections. MORE ..

https://www.alfranken.com/landing/e170126/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2017/11/10/the-significance-of-al-frankens-call-to-impose-net-neutrality-on-google-facebook-and-amazon/amp/

Much more info tells us THIS is the reason for the coordinated smears against Franken.
Anyone calling for his resignation or accusing without proof via his self-ordered investigation, is questionable as to their motives.

This is not about sex.
This is not about weak accusations & photoshopped pics.
This is about stacking the deck in favor of killing NN.
However it needs to be done.


This is how the RW and those buying & repeating their lies gave us Trump.

Mind you all, Roger Stone & Fox News was behind the push for Tweedon to start the smear rolling.

Sen Franken is the strongest fighter for Net Neutrality.
That is why they want him gone.

[sheshe2]

1. He terrifies them.

[Wwcd]

2. Yes he does. He knows what the end of NN means to American citizens.

Not a stronger, more dedicated Senator we have in DC where NN & Citizens United are on the table.

He's been championing this particular cause for a few years.
They cannot defeat him any other way but a manufactured, well coordinated smear campaign against him.

This is how they weaken & cast doubt on our greatest fighters for the good of American society.

They are predictable in their methods.

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Thank you for this post.

[Miigwech]

4. I always believe the women first

and then measure the facts against that position .... something doesn't add up with accusations against Franken. The more that comes out the less I believe the women and this is a rare change for me.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Stalking apps? Selling your movements to corporations because...?? Better tell your children

to turn off location services...voluntarily giving such info to corporations mostly unknown is never a good idea.

[kimbutgar]

6. I stand by Al I think the attacks are planned hit jobs by right wing operatives.

[SharonAnn]

8. Amen! And the "concern trolls" come out in force on this kind of thing.

[BoneyardDem]

7. AL s a thorn in their sides...and they simply don't like it

Therefore they must find ways not only to shut him down. Also, the obvious attempt to dilute the heinous pedophelia of Roy Moore by trying to draw unnatural parallels, cannot be ignored

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Yes he is a major Thorn.

Answer this,why was it Hubbard Broadcasting that broke this Groping Story? Why did Richard Painter say,there are Roy Moore Republican Operatives floating around the Twin Cities? Where is Vin Weber and Norm Coleman?

Al is one of the Few Democrats that are effective in truly tearing holes in the Republican Lies.

[lutherj]

10. Republicans are also desperately trying to hang on to a senate seat in Alabama. Nobody expected

this seat to be be a toss up. There are two other republican senate seats that are vulnerable, one in Arizona and one in Nevada. If all thee go to Democrats then we flip the senate, and start to stop the hemorrhaging of our republic. They are trying to perfume the moral rot that is Roy Moore with an orchestrated hit job an Al Franken. They want to show the good voters of Alabama that they might as well vote for a pedophile because nobody is free from sin but at least Moore isn’t an atheist Jew liberal. (Sarcasm. I’m presenting their way of thinking, not mine.)

[stonecutter357]

11. resignation of Sen Franken? RWNJ'S AND RUSSIAN DOT"S

[rocktivity]

12. Besides, if any if the allegations were remotely true

wouldn't the Rethuglicans have used them to literally knock Al out of the race against Norm Coleman way back when? Have you already forgotten that it was the better part of a YEAR before Al got to take office?


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[mythology]

14. If they weren't wouldn't he have denied them? Instead he apologized for vague things.

[rocktivity]

15. I suspect that the method to Al's madness is backhandedly holding the GOP to the same standard

Look at all the stuff Jeff Sessions has "forgotten" about lately -- and no one seems to be after HIS job...


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[mythology]

21. Except the women hadn't come forward then

One of the alleged events hadn't happened.

Your logic is specious. For example it would mean Denny Hastert obviously didn't molest kids because Democrats didn't use it against him.

[rocktivity]

22. Someone would have been "pushed" forward

if they had any reason to believe they could get away with it.

Let's just say, that given the timing and political circumstances, it's NOT unreasonable to have a reasonable doubt.


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[L. Coyote]

13. That, and a dozen similar reasons. Jeff Sessions perjury is another one.

Franken is taking down the Attorney General of the USA. A pot smoking comedian is bringing down Sessions! Let that sink in.

[Wwcd]

16. Lol. Man that was sweet wasn't it. Jeffy lied & Al told everyone!

Franken has the smarts to make Jeffy the fool without him even knowing it.
Franken ran a one man sting op on Sessions.

Sessions himself probably called on Fox News to run a smear story on Franken.

[Hekate]

17. Al Franken is being ratfcked, as are well. My gods, people.

[flamingdem]

18. Wonder if there was some payment of the "victims"

Sure can imagine so, or the idea that they'd get something down the line.

[Jakes Progress]

19. Either working for the russians

or just dumb enough to be duped by them.

[rocktivity]

23. And why hasn't this angle come up in the national media?

Because they have a vested interest in ensuring that net neutrality lives...


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