Posted on 10/18/2014 7:13:38 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) is hoping to saddle his Republican challenger with Mitt Romney-esque charges of “vulture corporatism,” but his own investment activities, and those of his son, could blunt those attacks with charges of hypocrisy. --snip-- However, a more notorious tax haven, the Cayman Islands, enjoy the business of private equity firm Cohesive Capital Partners.
Joseph Franken, the senator’s son, is a senior associate at the firm, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that Cohesive has two private equity funds that, while headquartered in New York City, are incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
An example of something being okay if liberals do it, but outrageous if done by a conservative.
The only real and honest characterization of Franken is the one where he’s seen in a diaper and a baby hat.
Franken, a joke without a punchline.
So typical....the last refuge of a scoundrel...a woman's vagina.
Minnesota woman need to ask themselves"
Do you want Al Franken messing in your vagina?
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Campaign Contributions Scandal Ensnares AL FRANKEN in IRS’s Missing Emails
Colorado Observer. ^ | June 19, 2014 | Audrey Hudson / FR Posted 6/21 by george76
...... missing among the IRS’s internal emails are communications with Sens. Mark Udall, Mark Begich, Mary Landrieu, Al Franken, and a dozen other Democrats who received campaign contributions from the federal agency’s union. Democratic senators who took campaign donations from the IRS union include Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana who received $25,500, Al Franken of Minnesota with $5,000, and Mark Begich of Alaska. (Excerpt) Read more at thecoloradoobserver.com
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HEY, AL---WADDA YA KNOW ABOUT THIS? Hennepin County attorney’s office is investigating whether a private mailbox center in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood has been improperly used as an address for more than 140 voters. State records show that 419 Cedar Avenue S. has been used by some of the voters as far back as 2008. [Ed.: In other words, since Al Franken's 2008 campaign.]
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MEMO TO FRANKEN VOTERS As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature plan that was ultimately enacted (by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote) into the "Affordable Care Act :
QUOTING OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.” Repeated over and over by every Democrat----with the promise that every American would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs. Every Democrat enthusiastically chimes in, echoing the same false promises----lock-stepping party loyalty not seen since 1940's-era Europe.
Quoting Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn): "people who are happy with their current plan, wouldn't need to change it."
FRANKEN YOUTUBE SOUND BITE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCZmAYYNz8I
http://www.cohesivecapital.com/team
Joe Franken
Senior Associate
Joe Franken is a Senior Associate of Cohesive Capital Partners. Prior to Cohesive, Mr. Franken was an Associate at Robert W. Baird where he was involved in a variety of transactions focused primarily on the industrial sector. Previously, Mr. Franken was an Analyst in the Foreign Exchange Macro Sales group at Goldman Sachs, and a Vice President at Faros Trading, a trading firm founded by several of his Goldman Sachs colleagues. Mr. Franken received a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and completed the Leaders in Global Operations program at MIT, receiving a M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management, and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from School of Engineering. While at MIT, Mr. Franken was selected to complete a six-month fellowship program focused on global purchasing and supply chain for General Motors in São Paulo, Brazil
Adding Value as a Co- Investor With John Barber of Cohesive Capital and David Stonberg of Neuberger Berman
EXCERPT
Barber: I’m never ceased to amaze that through our network, we get to someone we know who can help us or someone they know who can help us. Usually, very frankly, it’s the second call that gets you to the person. The person is incredibly smart, incredibly knowledgeable and can’t believe you’re actually interested in what they’re interested in. We have a limited partner who sits on our executive council. He’s actually retired. He was the former CEO of one of my partner’s portfolio companies when he was a lead private equity guy. He’s on the board of a pretty major university and we were looking at a very interesting deal that brought international students to major U.S. universities in pathway programs. We called him…he’s on the board… and within a day, he had us on the phone with the president of that university and the head of international student recruitment. We went through a bit what this company does. We understood what their issues were and problems were and what was sort of funny was that by the end of the call they were almost pitching us on how could they be partners with this company we were doing diligence on. That’s an example of a value added relationship network diligence call that really reinforced and enlightened us on what the opportunity and the problems facing the colleges here in the U.S. were and the value add of this company that we were diligencing.
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Wonder what Joe brings to the “network?” :o/
Gee Al, I suppose uber liberal billionaire Tom Styer doesn’t count on your vultures list and certainly not George Siros who destroys entire national economies. Hypocrite!
It's OK if liberals do it because they support the expansion of the welfare state.
It's not OK if conservatives do it because they are just trying to avoid the fair sharing of their assets with the welfare state.
See how easy this is? :)
See Tim Geithner criticize Romney then take a ‘vulture capitalist’ position with nary a word from the ‘Progressives’.
Of course, I believe in the right and necessity for some level of financial privacy.
People who don't believe in it for others, but only for themselves, deserve to be called out on the issue.
I find it shocking that... Franken found some woman willing to bear his child!
Tried to get the local take on this and googled:
“Minneapolis TV Joseph Franken, the senator’s son,”
I got ZERO reports, no mention of the hypocrisy, apparently the local media does not give an Obama.
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