Al Franken resigned from the Senate

[Celerity]

27. Every single Dem Senator except for the 3 on the Ethics Committee, then Menendez (who was in a

federal corruption trial then and chose not to speak), and finally Manchin (the only one who told him to NOT step down, the other 4 would have for sure told him to resign if they could have) either publicly or privately told Franken he had to go.

Many of the rest of the Dem female Senators all met for weeks (it was NOT just Gillibrand) before they decided (when new women, including a Dem staffer, came forward) to go public. Schumer signed off on it. Gillibrand was the first by a few minutes to call for him to resign (she did it on Facebook), but she was followed (it was coordinated by them all) by many others.

The first Dem to go on TV and call for Franken to resign was................ Kamala Harris, a few minutes after Gillibrand did her FB post.

Women senators coordinated calls for Al Franken to resign

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/senators-al-franken-resignation/index.html

Nearly three weeks after sexual harassment allegations first emerged against Sen. Al Franken, a wave of Democratic senators — in coordination and following a flurry of text messages and phone calls — called for his resignation in rapid succession Wednesday morning.

Starting around 11:30 a.m. ET, the senators posted statements in a coordinated effort, one after the other, on social media, saying the Minnesota Democrat should step down.

Some comments were elaborate, lengthy and loaded with a moral message. Others, like that of Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, were straight to the point. “Al Franken should resign,” she simply tweeted.

Link to tweet

Within the next 90 minutes, 16 Democrats – 10 of them women – and one Republican senator – Susan Collins of Maine – had publicly urged their colleague to vacate his seat.

Yet the myth of the all-powerful, evil, Machiavellian junior Senator from New York, who single-handedly used her Svengali-esque power to enthrall almost all the rest of the Dem Senate (including all of the leadership) to do her nefarious bidding has been etched in stone here for even longer than I have been a member.

What is almost always left out are the other women who came forward. Instead it is 99% focused on Tweeden. If it was just Tweeden, Franken would still be a Senator, and also, going the other way, if Gillibrand was not that involved, he would still have resigned. She was not a make-or-break cog.