Posted on 11/16/2017 11:06:30 AM PST by drewh
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) faced swift and bipartisan condemnation Thursday and a call for an ethics investigation after a Los Angeles model and broadcaster accused him of forcibly kissing and groping her in 2006.
After originally issuing a brief apology and saying he didnt recall the incident the way Leeann Tweeden did, Franken issued a longer apology Theres no excuse and welcomed the ethics investigation, saying he will gladly cooperate.
The top Democrat, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), said he hopes there will soon be one by the Senate Ethics Committee, which has the authority to recommend expelling a senator. Sexual harassment is never acceptable and must not be tolerated, Schumer said in a statement.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who is dealing with the political fallout from allegations of sexual misconduct by an Alabama GOP Senate candidate, immediately called on the ethics committee to investigate Franken. McConnell has also not ruled out investigations into Roy Moore if he wins his special election next month despite Republican leaders calls for him to drop out of the race.
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I hear you. But the “reflect upon the Senate” part is a joke in and of itself considering the actions of Kennedy, Menendez, Dodd, McCain and others and the senate’s complete lack of action on them.
What is left to investigate.
You have a picture
You have two unimpeachable female accusers.
Go straight to trial!
This is a redo from 2008.
0bama called for an investigation into McLame’s Natural Born Citizen status.
The dirty usurper accused someone else of being foreign born, and set himself up as the pious judge
No apologies should be accepted for Al Franklin, Just a Resignation!
As I said there will be multiple accusers of Al Franklin and now there is a second one coming forward according to Fox News
Melanie Morgan may be the second accuser
Al Franklin should resign - Jeff Sessions should not think he owes any claim of recusal to this scum!
Franken’s one thing - Menendez will be another - although the jury was hung in his recent trial, he will without doubt face an ethics hearing in the Senate once his legal status is decided finally - the judge would not allow information regarding his flights to Pedophile Island and sex with underage girls as part of his payoff to be admitted in the trial, but nothing will keep it out of an ethics procedure - with the moral temperature as high as it is now, he might as well resign and get it over with......
They’re pretending to not be hypocrites and not have double standards, but an ethics investigation into Al Franken’s conduct will only last until December 13th.
And apparently no Senator has received much in the way of admonishment by the Ethics Committee for things he did prior to becoming a Senator. Just more theatrics.
Crimes committed on an airplane fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal courts. Since this was a military airplane it could also be prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The only reasonable way to properly investigate this is for the the Attorney General to appoint a Special Prosecutor.
That’s because McConnell is a duplicitous quisling.
The new standard demands he resign immediately.
Not only was he caught red handed, he also did it before and was a dick in general. Go figure.
A Senate ethics investigation, is that like using the wrong spoon for the soup?
Suddenly Dems are against this kind of behavior? Funny, they werent this concerned about serial rapist Bill Clinton..
the ethics panel is not where you prosecute criminal sexual assault.
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