was Franken’s first thought.
Franken’s longtime fund-raiser, A.
In Hollywood, Franken’s reputation had been far from wild.
The gag is that every name she picks is Franken’s, because he’s stuffed the raffle box.
For some activists in the women’s movement, Franken’s resignation was a welcome milestone.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, immediately endorsed Franken’s request, and the process was set in motion.
It’s understandable that Tweeden objected to Franken’s having reënacted the gag for a photograph while she was asleep.
The senators who now lament having called for Franken’s resignation appear to be trying to have their cake and eat it, too.
According to McIntyre, Hannity wanted to use the photograph in 2007, when it would have derailed Franken’s first Senate bid.
He said that Tweeden had especially objected to this “bullying,” and that Franken’s pose in the photograph was no mere joke.
Alana Petersen, his longtime state director, told me that she had trained Franken’s staff to place someone within arm’s reach whenever he was in public.
Traylor Portman, who used her maiden name, Traylor Howard, while appearing on the TV show “Monk,” said that she also played the role in Franken’s skit, in 2005.
Franken’s intentions at that moment are irrelevant; what matters is that no one would find the joke funny if society didn’t treat women’s bodies as consumer products.
Lomonaco, Franken’s former chief of staff, said, “Typically, reporters will reach out to you for comment, so you have a heads-up, and some opportunity to put your best foot forward.
According to the book, there is “compelling” evidence, compiled by a citizens’ watchdog group, that “1,099 ineligible felons voted illegally” in the contest—“more than three times” Franken’s victory margin.
In Franken’s 2017 book, “Al Franken, Giant of the Senate,” which was published before Tweeden’s accusations, he writes of being preoccupied during the 2006 tour with deciding whether to run for public office.
Franken’s friend Eli Attie, a former speechwriter for Al Gore who moved to Hollywood to write for “The West Wing” and other shows, told me, “Things he’s done as a comedian look very different through the prism of a senator.”
I went up to the seventeenth-floor offices, whose walls were lined with archival photographs from the show—Jane Curtin ripping her shirt open on “Weekend Update,” Gilda Radner in a “Beach Blanket Bingo” sketch, Al Franken’s head shot!
The claim has been that Franken’s resignation showed that progressives would no longer tolerate a pattern of sexual harassment, but when I asked Gillibrand about it, she sounded a little uneasy with the idea that there was a consensus, saying, “I don’t know if it set a new standard.”
Norman Ornstein, a political scientist with the American Enterprise Institute, who is one of Franken’s oldest friends, explained that nobody felt it would be helpful to correct Tweeden’s inaccuracies, such as clarifying that the skit had been written years before she and Franken rehearsed it.
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