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LTE: “FRANKEN NOT A GOOD FIT FOR MINNESOTA”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | February 7, 2008
"Al Franken’s travels around the state to college campuses trying to get the votes of young people are well documented. He has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on television commercials trying to portray himself as a nice guy. He has even enlisted his fourth grade teacher to give a testimonial about what a nice boy he was in elementary school.
In one fell swoop, Al Franken showed that he lacks the class, maturity and decency to be a United States Senator. Earlier this month, at Carleton College, Franken verbally attacked a Carleton College student simply because the kid was a conservative — and, because the kid didn’t want to get in a photograph with Franken. Franken refused to get into a civil conversation with him and viciously demeaned him by mocking his body language and his speech, according to a Jan. 23 article in the Star Tribune.
The worst part of all of this is that the young man tried to get through an uncomfortable situation by having the class to try to shake Franken’s hand and basically say, 'Hey, no hard feelings.' Instead, Franken refused to shake his hand." Source: Winona Daily News, February 7, 2008
Click here for the complete letter.
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February 27th, 2008 at 9:50 PM
The above letter was a plagiarized “astroturf” letter that came straight from the Coleman campaign (see here.
When I was in college, students pledged to follow the university honor code, which governed conduct inside and outside the classroom. The code not only held the students to a high ethical standard but lent a great deal of weight to the school’s reputation and that of its alumni. Signing your name to a letter you didn’t even write would have qualified as an act of “plagiarism†— if not outright fraud.
I would be interested to know if, under Winona State’s guidelines, Samantha Gronlund will be subject to sanction, punishment, suspension or expulsion for her breathtakingly blatant dishonesty.