Al Franken says he regrets resigning
Former U.S. senator Al Franken. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images In November 2017, TV host Leeann Tweeden accused Senator Al Franken of groping and kissing her without her consent. Over the next several weeks, seven more women came forward to accuse Franken of unwanted sexual contact, including more groping and attempted kissing. Under pressure from his own caucus, its female members in particular, Franken resigned in early December that year.
“The idea that anybody who accuses someone of something is always right — that’s not the case,” Franken said. “That isn’t reality.” The picture was a key part of the case against Franken and something that, he told Mayer, he continues to feel bad about. Tweeden was wrong about Franken writing a skit especially for her In Tweeden’s telling, Franken wrote a scene that included a kiss between them when he found out she would be joining the USO. tour. The scene was about an older male officer trying to get a younger female to kiss him during an audition. It was during a rehearsal for this scene that Tweeden said Franken forced his tongue down her throat.
Patrick Leahy, the veteran Democrat from Vermont, said that his decision to seek Franken’s resignation without first getting all the facts was “one of the biggest mistakes I’ve made” in forty-five years in the Senate. Heidi Heitkamp, the former senator from North Dakota, told me, “If there’s one decision I’ve made that I would take back, it’s the decision to call for his resignation. It was made in the heat of the moment, without concern for exactly what this was.
• Someone who didn’t ogle Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders on a previous USO tour. — actress Traylor Portman, who went on USO tours with Franken• “One of the few non-sexist men she worked with at SNL.” — Jane Curtin• “He has no sexuality.” — Sarah Silverman
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