Al Franken: Minnesota's hardest working soon to be next U.S. Senator

[DogPoundPup]

The Al Franken campaign for U.S. Senate recently kicked off a "knock on 300,000 doors in 16 days" grass-roots event and the Al Franken website stated that on Sept. 6th they hoped to knock on 100,000 doors in Minnesota within 12 hours.

For the past few months Al has zigzagged across the state of Minnesota visiting folks in small towns such as Nashwauk, Dilworth, St. James, Fulda, Morton, Ham Lake, Kandiyohi, Big Lake, Princeton, Gilbert, Eveleth, Otsego, Chaska, Osseo, Fort Ripley, Redwood Falls, Rogers, and Chisago City.

Minnesota's very popular Jim Oberstar, a Democrat in the U.S. House since 1975 and current chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has marveled at how hard Franken has worked at campaigning all across the state.

Al has been supporting local Democrats for years now by using his celebrity status to draw people to fund raisers and Al was instrumental in helping Tim Walz win one of the biggest upset races in Minnesota in a Republican stronghold back in 2006. Al Franken has helped raised more money for Minnesota DFL'ers and worked harder than any other Minnesota DFL activist in recent memory.

Case in point, the recent effort Al Franken poured into the candidacy of Kevin Dahle helped win another upset seat for the state DFL in a special election in Northfield Minnesota. Newly elected Kevin Dahle said of Al Franken's efforts, "He helped me every way possible. He'd have an event where there'd be a lot of people and he'd turn the stage over to me for a few minutes." Kevin also said that Al helped go door to door, sometimes in sub-zero weather. He'd go door knocking with me "He was the most dogged door knocker I've ever seen", said Kevin.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Al-Franken-Minnesota-s-ha-by-E-Nelson-080907-233.html

:thumsup: Luv you Al :woohoo:

[USA_1]

1. Good Luck To Al

I will vote for him but must ask, how is he doing in the polls?

Last time I heard we was still far behind that crook Coleman.

[djkevvy]

2. Last I saw, he was one point up:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/21/senatepoll/?refid=0

[maseman]

3. He joked he was "blowing away" the competition by one point

[djkevvy]

8. And on one of the shows on Friday (Ed or Steph)

He joked that if every listener contributed he could double that lead.:)

[jwirr]

4. Add Two Harbors and Cloquet to that list of small towns. He was in

the Labor Day parade in Cloquet. The northland will turn out for him like they always do for Democrats.

[Towlie]

5. I have a psychic connection with Al Franken

It was really spooky. A few years ago I was driving alone and listening to Al Franken on Air America, when he said, "Those Republicans are so... Oh... What's the word I'm looking for?"

I said out loud, "Corrupt!"

Then Al repeated, "Corrupt."

Too bad there was nobody else listening. Oh well.

[DogPoundPup]

7. : ) We can all hear you now! Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Prefer]

6. Hell YES to Franken