Franken Seeks Advice on Bid for Senate

Associated Press ^ | Tue, May 04, 2004 | FREDERIC J. FROMMER

[Spok]

I take it Al's new job isn't working out.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

"I've thought about it and discussed it with my family more," Franken said. The only holdout, he said, is his 19-year-old son, Joe, who is worried he'll see less of his father.

and in '08 his son will be 23? And hes gonna miss DADDY? wtf? Talk about the DUMBEST future cop-out excuse!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Any sign of Joel Sebastian ? Gary Gears, doing a Mr. Norm live commercial over a recorded jingle...

[BillyBoy]

VS.
Stuart Smally vs. Senator Coleman
Because he's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggoneit, liberals like him.

NORM'S ACHIVEMENTS
-- Student Body President, Hofstra University
---J.D. from University of Iowa Law School, graduated with highest honors
--Campus organizer for civil rights in the 60s
--Successful prosecutor for the Minnesota Attorney General's office in the seventies
--Solicitor General of Minnesota
--Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota' capitol and second largest city, 1993-2002
--saved St. Paul taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
--received the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ highest award recognizing excellence in public-private partnership.
--engineered the return of a National Hockey League franchise to Minnesota.
--crushed Hubert Humphrey III in gubernatorial race and narrowly lost the top slot in a three way race.
--Polled ahead of two-term incumbent Paul Wellstone and THEN went on to defeat his replacement, former Vice President Walter Mondale
-- Chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Investigations, an assignment once held by Harry Truman and rarely occupied by a freshman Senator.
-- Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere
-- member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee.
--Americans for Tax Reform honored the Senator with their Hero of Taxpayer Award
--Family Research Council’s True Blue Award
--U.S. Chamber of Commerce with the Spirit of Enterprise award.
--American Chiropractic Association honored Coleman with their Health Care Leadership Award.

AL'S "ACHIEVEMENTS"
-- Was actually funny as Baggage handler #1/Bobo the Chimp in Trading Places (1983)
-- "SNL: The Lame Years". Left SNL in 1995 after his request to be the Weekend Update news anchor was promptly turned down.
-- Wrote "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot", (beloved by liberal readers) and now, ironically, weighs more than Rush and does dumber radio shows
--Wrote and Starred in "Stuart Saves His Family", now honored with the unique distinction of "crappiest film to ever be adapted from an SNL skit" ... a record that will be incredibly difficult to break
--Failed liberal radio talk show host who hosts "The O'Franken Factor" -- yuk, yuk...oh, you meant that was SUPPOSED to annoyed us, Al?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Add to the list above, "Norm has a better sense of humor."

[Northerner]

This state should have been with Canada years ago!
Did you know that?

The St.Louis River was the boundary at one time. It was a close negotiation-- and at one point-- Minnesota would have been split-- Imagine that!



Beautiful river-- rapids and small waterfalls-- very gorgeous river.

I was born to the North of the River. I imagine time that my friends weren't KILLED FROM THE FUCKING WAR, and we could have medicine and food.

It could have been a Grand Time-- To the
North--