Senator Al Franken of Minnesota Should Not Resign Analysis By Sherif Monem

Senator Al Franken should not resign for an old story based on Leeann Tweeden hungry of publicity and attention.

Let the man do his job in the senate. President Donald Trump is accused with dozen allgation and vulgar statements by grapping women private parts and did not resign.

'I'm going to have to be more careful,' Sen. Al Franken said of sexual misconduct allegations

Franken, a former actor and comedian, is accused of groping radio host Leeann Tweeden without consent while the two returned from a USO trip to Afghanistan in 2006, prior to Franken's election to the Senate. Tweeden also alleged that the senator forcibly kissed her while she auditioned for a comedy skit, a charge Franken has said he remembered differently. He did not go into detail.

Leeann Tweeden, a morning news anchor on a Los Angeles talk-radio station, on Thursday accused comedian Al Franken of groping and kissing her against her will in 2006, two years before Franken was elected to the U.S. Senate.

2006 for god sake.

two years before Franken was elected to the U.S. Senate.

Who knows may be she wanted to extort money from him.

Kissing her against her will is total nonsense. Not possible. Did he knocked her to floor and kissed her?

After Tweeden shared her story, however, additional women stepped forward to accuse Franken of touching them inappropriately, including one who cited an alleged incident during a photo opportunity with Franken, who was a senator by then. Franken, who said he does not remember the alleged incident, told KSTP it would have been unintentional.

What type of touching? What are their political affiliation? Proof?
He claimed he did not remember and could have been unintentional.

His comments to the station echoed a statement the senator previously issued in which he noted he is a "warm person" who "hug[s] people," but learned that he "crossed a line for some women."

Hugging is very common in tje American political culture.

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Franken pointedly noted that he was being forced out while President Donald Trump — who has been accused of worse offenses and bragged on a leaked "Access Hollywood" videotape of grabbing women by their genitalia — emerged unscathed. Trump has also endorsed Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct with them when they were teens and he was a deputy district attorney in his 30s.

"I, of all people, am aware that 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.

Franken quits amid sexual misconduct allegations

WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Al Franken announced Thursday he will resign from Congress in the coming weeks following a wave of sexual misconduct allegations and the collapse of support from his Democratic colleagues, a swift political fall for a once-rising Democratic star.

"I may be resigning my seat, but I am not giving up my voice," Franken said in the otherwise-hushed Senate chamber.

Franken quit just a day after new allegations brought the number of women alleging misconduct by him to at least eight. On Wednesday, one woman said he forcibly tried to kiss her in 2006, an accusation he vehemently denied. Hours later, another woman said Franken inappropriately squeezed "a handful of flesh" on her waist while posing for a photo with her in 2009.