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AP: “GOP BLASTS FRANKEN OVER QUOTES IN ‘95 ARTICLE”
By Michael B. Brodkorb | June 5, 2008
“Minnesota Republicans today stepped up a campaign to portray Al Franken as disrespectful toward women, circulating 13-year-old quotes from the Democratic Senate candidate joking about rape while writing a skit for ‘Saturday Night Live.’
While Franken has tried to draw a sharp line between his comedic endeavors and his bid to become a U.S. senator, he’s taking heat from across the political spectrum over old material. Several Democratic members of Congress criticized Franken over a racy fantasy article he wrote eight years ago for Playboy magazine.
Franken’s campaign, just a day before the start of the state Democratic endorsing convention, has defended the Playboy piece as satire and has distributed a statement from an official with the Minnesota chapter of the National Organization for Women.” Source: Associated Press, June 5, 2008
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