Former Sen. Al Franken said he misses his old job and hasn’t decided whether he plans to run for office again, WCCO reported Monday. He returned to Minnesota for the dedication of a new school, marking his first public appearance in the state since resigning from the U.S. Senate in January, following allegations from more…
Billionaire financier and Democratic donor George Soros told The Washington Post on Friday that he was rooting against New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to get the party’s nomination for president in 2020 because of what he saw as her role in the resignation of fellow Democratic Sen. Al Franken. Gillibrand, along with several other female…
Michele Bachmann declared she is not running to replace Al Franken’s Senate seat, less than a month after telling a televangelist that she was looking into it, the Washington Post reported. Bachmann told a conservative radio host in Minnesota that she “wasn’t hearing any call from God to do this.” “I took it to the…
A poll from the Minnesota Star Tribune newspaper found that a majority of Minnesotans believe that Al Franken did grope several women — but that he should not have resigned from office. Franken stepped down earlier this month. Of the 800 people polled statewide, 60 percent said they believe Franken groped and harassed multiple women….
Former Rep. Michele Bachmann is considering running for Al Franken’s vacated Senate seat, she said in an interview last week. Franken’s resignation on Tuesday triggered a November special election in Minnesota to fill the last two years of his term. Bachmann, who represented a Minnesota district in the House for eight years, said on “The…
When I told a friend last year that I was moving to New York, he told me he was jealous that I was “making aliyah,” employing the Hebrew phrase people use when they talk about moving to Israel. The idea that the Big Apple with its million Jews is holy — the true center of…
Sen. Al Franken’s upcoming resignation marks the end of an era: It will be the end of a nearly 40-year streak of Jews representing Minnesota in the U.S. Senate. First came Rudy Boschwitz, a Jewish Republican who won the 1978 election. He kept his seat in 1984 but lost it in 1990 to Democrat Paul…
On December 7, an emotional Al Franken took to the Senate floor to announce that following allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denies in part, he’s resigning from his position as Minnesota’s junior senator. But Franken didn’t provide an exact date for his departure, triggering rumors about whether his decision to step down is, in…
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