Why cant MN ask Frankin to run again as their senator?

[UCmeNdc]

Just wondering.

[LexVegas]

1. He resigned. nt

[UCmeNdc]

4. If enough people in MN ask him

Could he run for a brand new term？Everybody now knows about his misdeeds。

[LexVegas]

6. They wont ask and he wouldnt if they did. nt

[DFW]

16. Which misdeeds were they, exactly?

Not the ones made up by Republican propagandists and their paid actors, but misdeeds that he really committed?

[cwydro]

17. Excellent question.

[Hekate]

2. Why would he even want to, after the way he was treated?

[DFW]

18. THAT, as I see it, is the real problem

How could he work effectively with Senators, who are otherwise solidly for everything he is, but tossed him aside like trash the second Fox Noise made up some scheme to distract from the Roy Moore debacle?

Debbie Stabenow, Tammy Baldwin, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, dozens of other Senators we all know, respect and support, all fell for a James O'Keefe-like scam. They should all fall down on their knees before Al Franken and beg him for forgiveness. Tina Smith should announce her intention to resign in favor of candidate Al Franken for the special election.

By falling for the Fox scam, the Democratic Senators committed an unbelievably shameful act for which there is one and only one atonement: ask, no, BEG, Al Franken to run again for his seat, and acknowledge that they got deceived--and promise to show a little more common sense and a LOT more solidarity when the radical right's next victim (and there will be many) has been chosen.

[California_Republic]

3. I agree with

Come on back

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The governor appointed Tina Smith to take Franken's place in the Senate

until the election and then she'd run to keep the seat; the idea was that incumbency is an advantage. Franken could certainly run against Smith in the primary, but he probably has decided that after his Senate colleagues threw him under the bus he couldn't be effective any more.

[UCmeNdc]

7. Is the other Senator of MN a Republican？

[onenote]

9. No. The two Senators are Democratic women: Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Nope, both Democrats and both women.

The other one, Amy Klobuchar, is also up for re-election this year in the normal cycle.

[UCmeNdc]

12. Oh never mind，

[DFW]

19. I don't think Klobuchar's seat is in any danger.

I WISH Smith would stand down and have Franken run for his seat, but he probably isn't interested at this point.

[UCmeNdc]

11. I think they had a short period of being politically cowards at the time。

But look， the GOP flants Trump and others like him。The voters do not care about extra women。

[LakeArenal]

8. I dont quite understand how anyone is so sure

Of what Franken will or won’t do.

I only hope Al hasn’t given up on us.

A reminder to the “list” of senators, Franken is not just a memory... He’s as alive as ever in some folks heart. No one has done one thing to atone for this horrible calamity.

[earthshine]

13. I think he'd make a good presidential candidate for 2020. nt

[CentralMass]

15. He's good enough, he's smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like him.

[UCmeNdc]

14. Al Frankin should look for another State with a GOP Senator he could replace。

He was a great Senator。