If you assume Franken is a predator, the narrative is clear. WASHINGTON — A growing national outcry over sexual harassment reached the Senate on Thursday, when a radio newscaster accused Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, of kissing and groping her without consent during a 2006 U.S.O. Female Democratic senators had been talking privately for weeks about how they were losing their patience as harassment claims piled up. Al Franken is one of the most recognized and celebrated politician of United States, who presently serves as the United States Senator from Minnesota. Sen. Al Franken says he'll resign from Senate 'in the coming weeks' amid sexual harassment allegations A chorus of Franken's colleagues called for his resignation Wednesday. Congress. Ignoring his political career, he was a writer and performer for the television show, ‘Saturday Night Live’, from its conception in 1975 until 1980 and later on from 1985 till 1995. Still, it is possible that Al Franken is capable of rehabilitation. The pressure on Franken to resign was loud and continuous from his colleagues. For the record, even if Franken did this intentionally, that doesn’t mean he’s an irredeemable monster who is unfit for elected office. Alan Stuart Franken is an American politician, comedian, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. After decades as a comedic actor and writer, he became a prominent liberal political activist, hosting The Al Franken … The Democratic women of the Senate had been talking among themselves about the Franken allegations for weeks, one Democratic aide said. Franken didn’t get his day in front of the Ethics Committee. This week on the Al Franken Podcast, documentarian Alex Gibney presents a cautionary tale, Citizen K, the story of Russia’s slide into totalitarianism under Putin and the fall of a principled billionaire oligarch who spends ten years in a Siberian prison An Ohio military veteran who has alleged Sen. Al Franken touched her inappropriately while they were taking a photo together in Kuwait in 2003, said she'd speak with ethics committee investigators if asked. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a staff writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live. An instructive example of this debate came on Nov. 16, when Leeann Tweeden came forward to say that Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., had sexually harassed her while they were on … “What they did to Al was atrocious, the Democrats,” said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast to post on Tuesday. About 30 Senate Democrats, starting with women, have urged the … Bloomberg's colleagues are the other Democrats running for the nomination, and if they call for him to drop out, those calls won't be seen by the public and the press in the same light as the calls from Franken's colleagues were. Inside the demise of Al Franken. No. But that doesn't mean he didn't do what eight women say he did. When Franken admitted the Tweeden photo was real, he apologized and called for an ethics investigation into his own behavior.