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Date Posted: 17:06:18 07/02/09 Thu
Author: Bite me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: Senator Franken
In reply to: Cody Hill 's message, "Re: Senator Franken" on 13:35:25 07/02/09 Thu

>"If I were in Minnesota I'd be embarrassed to death
>being represented by that turd. Not to say Coleman is
>any better but Franken is the low of the low."
>
>Yes:
>
>1) you don't live in Minnesota
>
>2) you claim only to be embarrassed in Minnesota?
>
>3) you think you are clever by not defending Coleman
>
>4) you don't realize voters had the following choices:
>
>Al Franken or Senator Coleman
>
>Wish him well, oh snarky one!
>
> >href="http://nytimes.com/2009/07/02/us/politics/02minne
>sota.html">http://nytimes.com/2009/07/02/us/politics/02
>minnesota.html
>
>

Franken, in Long Wait, Studied for Senate
>Role

>
>After eight months of quietly raising money, hiring a
>staff and boning up on health care and other issues,
>Al Franken, the newly minted Democratic senator from
>Minnesota, finally got to deliver a victory speech on
>Wednesday.
>
> “I’m not going to waste this chance,” he declared at
>a rally at the Capitol in St. Paul, a day after the
>Minnesota Supreme Court ruled him the winner of a
>protracted election battle with Senator Norm Coleman
>that began Nov. 4.
>
>Mr. Franken, who has worked as a comedian and liberal
>flame-thrower, deliberately kept his head down in an
>extended bid to convince voters that he would be a
>serious and responsible senator. His promise not to
>“waste this chance” was essentially a promise to keep
>his cool.
>
>But his ideological opponents immediately started to
>test his resolve. Mr. Franken may offer conservatives
>one of their best hopes for a foil who can help them
>raise money as Republicans try to regroup from a
>series of problems.
>
>Rush Limbaugh, for one, whom Mr. Franken has called “a
>big fat idiot,” started in on Tuesday on his radio
>program shortly after the court declared Mr. Franken
>the winner.
>
>“It’s amazing, the similarities in the Minnesota
>electoral system and that in Iran,” Mr. Limbaugh said.
>
>As he emerged from his eight-month cocoon this week,
>Mr. Franken, ignoring such taunts, said he had spent
>his time “productively” and presented the image of a
>man eager to get to work.
>
>“I have a staff in place,” Mr. Franken told reporters
>in Minneapolis. “I can hit the ground — if not
>running, trotting.” He said he had been “trying to
>keep abreast of what’s going on in the Senate,”
>adding, “It’s not the same as being there, though, I
>know that.”
>
>Since November, he has visited Washington about six
>times, including meeting in the White House in May
>with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The emphasis
>was always on policy discussions, and on Wednesday,
>the Democrats announced Mr. Franken’s new committee
>assignments — Health, Judiciary and Indian Affairs
>(Minnesota has seven Indian reservations), and to a
>special committee on aging.
>
>Mr. Franken also spent considerable time during the
>protracted election battle raising money to keep up
>with his mounting legal bills, and has planned
>additional fund-raising events.
>
>Minnesota’s senior senator, and since January its only
>senator, Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, said that since
>November, Mr. Franken had probably raised as much as
>she spent during her entire campaign in 2006 — about
>$9 million, a figure that Mr. Franken’s staff
>confirmed although financial reports will not be filed
>until mid-July.
>
>Mr. Franken also told reporters that he and his wife,
>Franni, who both like to cook, “have had a lot of
>folks over for dinner who we think can help us with
>different kinds of things, like health policy and
>education policy.”
>
>Over the long winter, they took one brief vacation, in
>January to Key West, Fla., but Jess McIntosh, Mr.
>Franken’s spokeswoman, said it was no real vacation.
>“Most of it was spent on the phone with staff and
>lawyers,” Ms. McIntosh said.
>
>Mr. Franken is an avid reader, keeping about six books
>going at once, Ms. McIntosh said. His recent reads
>include “The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating
>Schools That Work,” by Linda Darling-Hammond, and “The
>Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,” by Anne
>Fadiman, the account of an immigrant child’s medical
>crisis.
>
>Ms. Klobuchar said she had talked regularly with Mr.
>Franken and offered various bits of advice.
>
>“I’ve forged friendships with Republicans, and that’s
>important,” she said. She also said he needed to study
>the example of other celebrities who had come to the
>Senate, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bill Bradley
>and Fred Thompson; Mr. Franken has said he has done so
>and has talked with Mrs. Clinton’s former chief of
>staff.
>
>“It’s important he go against the grain of his past
>career and really get to know the issues,” Ms.
>Klobuchar said.
>
>But the air of celebrity lingers. Mr. Franken has been
>invited to be the guest speaker on Sept. 13 at Senator
>Tom Harkin’s 32nd annual steak fry in Iowa, a big
>event on the Democratic presidential campaign circuit.
>
>Christina Capecchi contributed reporting from
>Minnesota.

Only a worm like you would like a worm like Fwranken.

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