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In reply to the discussion: Is Our Revolution trying to unseat Al Franken? [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)I was considering getting involved with your organization because I'd love to see more progressive Democrats in state and local as well as federal offices. But then I saw your petition demanding Al Franken step down and I changed my mind - I concluded that you had to be a bunch of ideologically-blinded dingbats who know absolutely nothing about Al Franken. He is one of the most effective Senators Minnesota has ever had at the grassroots level, and he is almost single-handedly responsible for exposing Jeff Sessions' lies about the Russia investigation. He is my Senator and I do not want to lose his representation of ME in the Senate.
By calling for his resignation you are effectively equating his behavior with that of Roy Moore, Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose and Donald Trump - predators who committed repeated acts of assault and other crimes, including child molestation in the case of Moore. Franken, in stark contrast, has been accused of butt-patting. Two of the accusers are anonymous; the third claimed he did it at the state fair in front of hundreds of people that included her husband. How credible are those claims? And even if they are true, how does butt-patting equate with child molestation and rape? It doesn't. And then there are the claims made by Leann Tweeden, friend of Sean Hannity. Franken, participating with Tweeden in a typically bawdy USO show, behaved like a dumb frat boy, not like a serial sexual predator. It was wrong; he acknowledged it was wrong and apologized. But you damn fools are buying right into the right wing's typical whataboutism.
So let's throw Al under that Big Righteous Liberal Bus so we so-called progressives can feel good about ourselves for being better than the "other side." And as a result that Big Righteous Liberal Bus is now stalled by Al's body under its wheels - while the GOP's armored Hummer blasts past us, rolling coal and flying a Confederate flag, shotguns strapped to the back window, with Trump and Moore flipping us off as they speed on their way to more raping of the environment and pillaging of the US Treasury.
Forget it. You just lost me, and a whole lot of other liberal Minnesotans.
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