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In reply to the discussion: This is Al Franken. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The date of a video is meaningless. That's when it was posted. The dates she did the circuit trying to spread her name as the spearhead of the Franken ouster...doesn't matter what dates those were on.
This was a Gillibrand movement all the way. She was the face of the "me, too" movement, and made it her personal cause.
We will have to agree to disagree. You fully support everything she did. I get it. I don't, though. Neither do a lot of other people. What she/they did was flat wrong. She declared him "the harasser" based on "evidence" that wasn't sworn testimony, even by affidavit. No lie detector test. No questioning of them. Not even all the names were ever released. What happened to Franken goes against everything we think of in America as fairness in judging whether someone committed a crime. Not even a pretense of checking out facts. As she said, the fact that there were multiple allegations was enough for her. "GUILTY."
I will not vote for her to be the nominee. They calculated that it would be the popular thing to do. They may be right. Or maybe they calculated wrong. I can only speak for myself.
If someone on the list becomes the Democratic candidate, then that changes things. Our democracy is at stake. If that happens, I'm pretty sure it won't be Gillibrand, though.