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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It will drag on and on....if they do an ethics investigation, nothing will happen to him.
By the way, did any of this happen while he was a Senator?
I thought they could only do ethics investigation if it was something that happened while in the Senate?
They may have opened up a can of worms they’re going to wish they’d kept the lid on. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole of congress has skeletons they want to keep buried in this department.
I guess the (lack of)Ethics Committee can decide to investigate anything, but I don’t really see how they can look at either Franken or Moore for events well before Franken being elected or Moore potentially elected to the senate.
Rat and Swamp perverts playing for time to get Moore out and destroyed, while spinning up the Clinton-Rat Bimbo Eruption team to destroy Franken's victims and go back to perversion and Fake News as usual.
Somebody unspoken doesn’t like him. Probably something going on behind the scenes.
And has Shirley Jackson Buffalo Head weighed in?
What’s there to investigate?
We had the witness’s testimony, the defendant confessed, and now, sentence him!
I’d say throwing him out of office, would be a good start.
Why not a vote to EXPEL him, as they promise to do to Moore? HUHUUUUUUUH?
Does this mean Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) is a big Clinton supporter?
‘Cause ‘the press’ has their marching orders - ‘throw Hillary & Friends’ under the Bus... Well, Amber Phillips is he a Clintonista? Are YOU following orders?
What the h*ll is McConnell thinking? He gave Franken (and the entire Dem party) a HUGE out here. Call for Franken to resign, and you put tremendous pressure on him and the Dems, especially with everything they've said about Moore. All an ethics investigation does is allow Dems to hide behind it -- prepare to see a million variations of "I can't comment on an matter pending before the ethics committee."
“Probably something going on behind the scenes.”
They just got hit by Bannon’s first counter-strike. The Swamp is a target rich environment. There are plenty more nukes in the armory. Message delivered.
The Swamp will retreat and try to roll this back (starting with Franken’s resignation), they know they can’t get into a full-blown nuclear exchange here. They can’t survive it.
“What the h*ll is McConnell thinking?”
McConnell is who this strike was really aimed at...the message is to HIM. His Swamp is vulnerable...and now he’s sitting in a pile of S**t of his own making.
Senate ethics committee = whitewash.
Chuck Schumer calls for ethics investigation.
What a joke.
Calling for an ethics committee investigation is smoke and mirrors and means nothing from what I understand. They can only really look at what was done after someone is a senator. So, so what if they call for the committee to look at Franken
HRC needs to be LOCKED UP and SWAMP drained completely.!
They’re trying to quiet this as quick as possible. I hope more revelations about more Dem Senators come out.
To bad all of Menendez’s accusers were paid off or who’s livelihood was the oldest profession.
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