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Al Franken Getting Celebrity Support (for Senate run)
AP ^ | 7/29/06

Posted on 07/29/2006 8:02:13 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside

July 28, 2006

Al Franken Getting Celebrity Support

By FREDERIC J. FROMMER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -

The list of contributors to comedian Al Franken's political action committee reads like a celebrity who's who: singer Barbra Streisand, writer-director Nora Ephron, actor-writer Larry David and actor Jimmy Smits.

Franken, who hosts a radio show on the liberal Air America Radio network, is considering challenging Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., in 2008. Franken moved his show from New York City to Minneapolis earlier this year, fueling speculation of a possible bid.

His leadership PAC, Midwest Values PAC, raised $500,000, according to a review of campaign finance reports. Franken couldn't use the money for his own race, but he can contribute to other candidates, engendering goodwill.

He has used the cash to contribute to national Democratic Party organizations, Minnesota Senate candidate Amy Klobuchar and House candidates Coleen Rowley, Tim Walz and Patty Wetterling,

Among the contributors to the PAC were actor Larry Hagman, directors Christopher Guest and Barry Levinson, and writers Harold Ramis and Aaron Sorkin.

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David said he couldn't refuse Franken.

"Al is a friend of mine, so more than anything, when friends ask me to do things, I have a hard time saying no to people. If he asked me to drive him to the airport, I'd do that too," David said in an interview Friday.

Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer, said that most of the contributors are people he knows from the business.

"These are people who do quality work who I'm very, very proud to be associated with," he said in an interview.

Franken says he still hasn't decided whether to run for the Senate. Coleman's office declined to comment, but his campaign is already making an issue of Franken's Hollywood money.

"One of my potential opponents is comedian Al Franken," Coleman wrote in a fundraising letter a few months ago, "but there's nothing funny about his venomous 'Air America' liberal radio show, his high-powered and deep-pocketed Hollywood friends, his national network of Bush-haters or the magnitude of his personal wealth."


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: campaignfinace; electioncongress; electionussenate; frankendork; frankenfraud; fundraising; girlieman; moonbat; stuartsmalley
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To: Mr. Brightside

21 posted on 07/29/2006 8:30:20 AM PDT by rlmorel (Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" star Larry David said he couldn't refuse Franken.

"Al is a friend of mine, so more than anything, when friends ask me to do things, I have a hard time saying no to people. If he asked me to drive him to the airport, I'd do that too," David said in an interview Friday."

I despise Larry David's and his wife's political slants, but I am a huge Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fan. Life goes on.


22 posted on 07/29/2006 8:32:57 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: Mr. Brightside
One more ugly clown in the senate won't matter much..This clown is another Cindy Sheehan it won't ever go away just keeps getting more obnoxious by the day..
23 posted on 07/29/2006 8:33:32 AM PDT by Beth528
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To: Mr. Brightside

Disgusting that the liberal media runs non-stories like this about Leftists. Diana Irey's challenge to "Pruneface" Murtha in Pennsylvania is much more interesting but she can't get the time of day.


24 posted on 07/29/2006 8:34:11 AM PDT by RedRover
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Well I guess Franken is qualified for the Senate - he was a failure in the private sector.
25 posted on 07/29/2006 8:34:35 AM PDT by PeteB570 (Weapons are not toys to play with, they are tools to be used.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
A third party run by Mr. Franken would be great.
26 posted on 07/29/2006 8:36:02 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (999-TNS)
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To: PeteB570
Well I guess Franken is qualified for the Senate - he was a failure in the private sector.

LOL! That made my Potential Tag List (see my profile)!

28 posted on 07/29/2006 8:37:18 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (A Conservative will die for individual freedom. A Liberal will kill you for the good of society.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

If Franken runs for the senate that will be the funniest thing he has done since Saturday Night Live.


29 posted on 07/29/2006 9:05:15 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: Mr. Brightside

Please run, Al! That will show the whole country the intelligence level of the average Dem. I hope they telecast the debates between Al and Norm Coleman to the nation. I can't wait!!!


30 posted on 07/29/2006 9:43:13 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: Mr. Brightside

Don't we have enough morons in the senate already?


31 posted on 07/29/2006 9:47:04 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help m)
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This guy is a psychopath.


32 posted on 07/29/2006 11:17:23 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (John Bolton for Secretary of State)
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To: Mr. Brightside
"The list of contributors to comedian Al Franken's political action committee reads like a celebrity who's who of blithering blathering babbling left-wing bozos."

There, I corrected it!!
33 posted on 07/29/2006 4:03:49 PM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: Trust Nancy Pelosi to Win the War on Terror!! (gag))
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To: Mr. Brightside

I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and darn it, people(movie stars) like me!


34 posted on 07/29/2006 4:53:00 PM PDT by Bush gal in LA
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To: originalbuckeye

Well....if Al runs...and wins...then Air America loses its owner draw card to the network. If I were the Democrats...I'd be begging Al to stay and keep the network afloat. But then...the scenario of having a comedian (even a Democratic comedian)...appeals to me. I'd like to see McCain and Franken in a senate exchange...in fact, I'd pay $10 just to watch such a heated debate between the two.


35 posted on 07/29/2006 9:24:18 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Mr. Brightside

oh, GOD!

PLEASE let Stuart Smalley run!
PLEASE let him get elected!
PLEASE let him finish off the Donks as they now exist, like unto his doughty Works with Err Amerika!


36 posted on 07/30/2006 1:31:52 AM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: Mr. Brightside

Barbara Streisand seems intent on throwing her money away. At this rate, she'll be a bag lady by 2008.


37 posted on 07/30/2006 1:46:05 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Mr. Brightside
He already has the perfect corporate sponsor:


38 posted on 07/30/2006 10:01:47 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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39 posted on 08/01/2006 8:36:14 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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