Did Al Franken do anything illegal?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

51. What I don't understand is why this incident did not come to light

in 2008 when Franken was running for the Senate against that snake Norm Coleman. Coleman had been elected in 2002 only because Wellstone was killed just before the election, and Wellstone almost certainly would have been elected. So in 2008 the GOP was determined to hang on to that seat, and they gave a ton of RNC money and PAC money to Coleman, who also was being advised by Karl Rove. Coleman, who has the scruples of a rabid wolverine, conducted a really dirty campaign, mostly consisting of extremely nasty attack ads citing Franken's history of raunchy jokes, trying to make him out as a degenerate. It was the ugliest state campaign I'd ever seen. The result was so close that there were two recounts; when Franken won the second recount Coleman took it to the state supreme court and lost. But throughout the whole thing, with Coleman, the GOP and Karl Rove turning over every single rock to find dirt, the incident with Tweeden never surfaced - nor did any other similar incidents. All they could come up with was some dirty jokes.

This is why I think Franken welcomes an investigation. That's not to say that what he actually did do was OK, but it's likely that it was a one-off descent into drunk frat-boy behavior and there's nothing else out there.