{"id":179715,"date":"2017-11-16T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/16\/say-it-aint-so-al\/"},"modified":"2017-11-16T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T02:27:00","slug":"say-it-aint-so-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/16\/say-it-aint-so-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Say It Ain&#8217;t So, Al"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Senator Al Franken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2017\/11\/16\/leading-senate-democrats-call-for-ethics-investigation-into-al-franken\/\">has been accused of sexual harassment during a USO tour in 2006<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) faced swift condemnation and bipartisan calls for an ethics investigation on Thursday after a Los Angeles radio broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/powerpost\/wp\/2017\/11\/16\/al-franken-kissed-and-groped-me-without-my-consent-broadcaster-leeann-tweeden-says\/?utm_term=.1676cc3fa57f\">accused him of forcibly kissing and groping her<\/a> in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Franken first issued a brief apology, saying his actions were intended to be funny and that he didn\u2019t recall the incident the way Leeann Tweeden did. He later issued a longer apology: \u201cThere\u2019s no excuse,\u201d he said in a subsequent statement, adding that he would \u201cgladly cooperate\u201d with an ethics investigation. <\/p>\n<p>That looks likely to happen. At least half a dozen Senate Democrats urged their chamber\u2019s six-member, bipartisan ethics committee to investigate the allegations. Franken could face censureship or even expulsion from the Senate.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Copy editing note here, it&#8217;s, &#8220;censure,&#8221; not &#8220;censureship,&#8221; you illiterate Saracen pig.<\/p>\n<p>This sucks like 1000 Hoovers all going at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Al Franken has been accused of sexual harassment during a USO tour in 2006: Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) faced swift condemnation and bipartisan calls for an ethics investigation on Thursday after a Los Angeles radio broadcaster accused him of forcibly kissing and groping her in 2006. Franken first issued a brief apology, saying his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,374,613,448],"class_list":["post-179715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-politics","tag-scandal","tag-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}