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| Subject: Hasta la vista! Al Franken announces he will resign from the Senate Thu Dec 07, 2017 4:54 pm | |
| In a stunning close to his congressional career, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Thursday announced that he will resign amid multiple allegations that he touched women inappropriately, becoming the second lawmaker to step aside over such accusations in three days.
Yielding to pressure from other Democrats, Franken said he will leave Capitol Hill in the “coming weeks,” but he continued to deny allegations of groping and unwanted advances from more than a half-dozen women.
The former rising Democratic star used his resignation speech to take aim at President Trump and Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who have not been forced aside despite facing arguably more serious allegations of sexual misconduct.
“There is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office, and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party,” Franken said in a speech on the Senate floor.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/franken-announcement-expected-thursday-as-fellow-democrats-demand-his-resignation/2017/12/07/61b60df2-db4b-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.e6d669310215 |
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