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Friday, March 7th, 2008
This is a collection of TV clips about Al Franken’s failure to pay workers’ comp insurance. Bill O’Reilly of FOXNews labeled Franken “a pinhead.” Dan Abrams of MSNBC called Franken “our big loser of the day.” It’s been a tough week for Team Franken.
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AP: “ANOTHER SENATE CANDIDATE WITH WORKERS’ COMP PROBLEM”
Friday, March 7th, 2008"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Another Democratic Senate candidate finds himself playing catchup on unpaid workers' compensation insurance.
This time it's Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer. Just two days after Al Franken was reported to have an unpaid $25,000 judgment in the state of New York, Nelson-Pallmeyer's campaign reported that it hadn't covered its employees.
Campaign manager Chris McNellis says Nelson-Pallmeyer didn't [...]
FOX NEWS/MSNBC DISCUSS FRANKEN’S LEGAL TROUBLES
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Al Franken's legal troubles were mentioned during shows tonight on FOXNews and MSNBC. I'll try and post the clips tomorrow.
FRANKEN’S SPOKESWOMAN CLAIMS THE FRANKENS NEVER RECEIVED THE NOTICES FROM THE WORKERS’ COMP BOARD
Thursday, March 6th, 2008"McIntosh said the Frankens never received the nearly one dozen notices that New York officials had sent them since April 2005.
'Had they gotten the notices, you know they would have paid them,' McIntosh said. 'The Republicans were going to jump on this eventually, so it wouldn't have been politically expedient [for the Frankens] to wait [...]
STAR TRIBUNE: “2ND SENATE CANDIDATE FAILED TO INSURE STAFF FOR WORKERS’ COMP”
Thursday, March 6th, 2008"Another DFL Senate candidate was caught in a workers' compensation bind Thursday, as the campaign manager for Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer acknowledged that the campaign has failed to insure its employed staff members since late last year.
The news came as Al Franken's corporation agreed Thursday to pay a $25,000 penalty to New York state for failing to [...]
TEAM FRANKEN TRIES THE OLD “BAIT AND SWITCH” TRICK TO DISTRACT FROM FRANKEN’S LEGAL TROUBLES
Thursday, March 6th, 2008"Sandberg said that the rumors that Ciresi won't honor the convention endorsement are being floated by the Franken campaign.
'This is a classic case of them saying, 'Let's deflect the attention from Al's workers' compensation problem to something else,' Sandberg said. 'Look, he's got a lot of union support. Workers' compensation is a key issue to [...]
MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: FRANKEN CALLS HIMSELF A “CORPORATION”; BOASTS HE EMPLOYS A “BUNCH OF PEOPLE”
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
This video was shot of Al Franken in September during a DFL debate at Augsburg. Franken said “I’m a corporation, I employ a bunch of people.” Franken also said “I love corporations that play by the rules, and we have to make them play by the rules.”
Alan Franken Inc. clearly did not play [...]
STORY ABOUT FRANKEN PAYING $25,000 FINE MOST VIEWED STORY ON STAR TRIBUNE WEBSITE
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
This story about Al Franken paying a $25,000 fine for failing to have workers' comp insurance is currently the most view story on the Star Tribune's website. Team Franken can't be happy.
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MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA FILES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST WITH NEW YORK STATE REGARDING AL FRANKEN’S BREAKING OF WORKERS’ COMP LAW”
Thursday, March 6th, 2008St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today filed a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request with the state of New York’s Worker’s Compensation Board regarding Al Franken's breaking of the state’s workers’ compensation law.
"Al Franken now says he will finally pay [...]
FRANKEN’S SPOKESWOMAN LASHES OUT AT MEDIA & MN GOP OVER FRANKEN’S $25,000 WORKERS’ COMP FINE
Thursday, March 6th, 2008"'We're not actually sure what happened at this point. As most small business owners know, when you're dealing with bureaucratic entities sometimes they make the mistake, sometimes you do,' she said. 'We don't know which one happened in this case but we're going to pay the fine in good faith so our accountant can deal [...]
BREAKING NEWS FROM THE AP: “FRANKEN CAMPAIGN SAYS HE’LL PAY NY WORKERS’ COMP FINE”
Thursday, March 6th, 2008 "MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Senate candidate Al Franken will pay a $25,000 fine to the state of New York for failure to carry workers' compensation insurance.
Franken was fined for not carrying the insurance for three years. The judgment was entered more than a year ago, but Franken's campaign says he [...]
KSTP REPORTS ON FRANKEN’S FAILURE TO PAY WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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THE HILL NEWSPAPER PICKS UP STORY ABOUT FRANKEN’S FAILURE TO PAY WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken owes the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board $25,000 for not providing workers’ compensation insurance for his employees between 2002 and 2005.
Franken moved back to Minnesota, the state he grew up in, in 2005. Notices were reportedly sent beginning that year.
Spokeswoman Jess McIntosh said the company penalized, Alan Franken Inc., [...]
COMMENTS ABOUT AL FRANKEN’S LEGAL TROUBLES DELETED FROM MN PUBLIUS
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008I was rather surprised to see an entire blackout in the liberal blogosphere about Al Franken's legal troubles in New York. I later found out one potential reason.
According to a dedicated reader of Minnesota Democrats Exposed, numerous comments have been left today on various MN Publius' posts about the legal problems that were recently [...]
LET’S BE CLEAR HERE: FRANKEN WAS LIVING IN NEW YORK WHEN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ATTEMPTED TO CONTACT HIM ABOUT PAYING WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Let's be clear here: Al Franken was living in New York at the same address where the State of New York starting sending notices that he needed to provide workers' compensation for his corporation's employees. Team Franken's desperate spin is that Franken wasn't in New York or that he didn't get the notices.
"Campaign spokesman Andy [...]
MN GOP PRESS RELEASE: “REPUBLICAN PARTY OF MINNESOTA CALLS ON AL FRANKEN TO IMMEDIATELY COME CLEAN ON BREAKING WORKERS’ COMP LAW”
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008St. Paul- Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Ron Carey today called on Al Franken to come clean about the $25,000 judgment rendered against him by the state of New York over his years-long failure to pay workers’ compensation insurance.
"Al Franken's story is full of [...]
AP: “AL FRANKEN COMPANY FACES $25,000 FINE”
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The state of New York fined the personal corporation of Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken $25,000 for not carrying workers' compensation insurance for almost three years.
The New York Workers' Compensation Board levied the fine against Alan Franken Inc. in August 2006 for failure to carry the insurance from June 2002 to [...]
FROM STAR TRIBUNE: FRANKEN WAS REPEATEDLY NOTIFIED BY STATE OF NEW YORK THAT HE NEEDED TO PAY WORKERS’ COMP
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"The Workers' Compensation Board began sending Franken notices in April 2005 after discovering that the insurance hadn't been paid for nearly three years.
Officials first sought an explanation. Receiving no response, they sent a penalty notice to Franken in June 2005 that outlined rights to appeal.
The state then turned to a collection agency to reach Franken. [...]
MORE LEGAL TROUBLES DISCOVERED ON FRANKEN: HE DIDN’T PAY HIS TAXES
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"Alan Franken Inc. appears in New York records one other time, when it failed to pay withholding taxes for July 1996. A lien against the corporation was filed in Nassau County in June 1997 for $2,948.30, and the case was closed a short time later, said Tom Bergin, a spokesman with the New York Department [...]
STAR TRIBUNE: “FRANKEN FACES $25,000 PENALTY FOR LACK OF WORKERS’ INSURANCE”
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008"DFL Senate candidate Al Franken owes a $25,000 penalty to the New York State Workers' Compensation Board for failing to carry workers' compensation insurance for employees of his namesake corporation from 2002 to 2005, state officials said.
New York officials have made numerous attempts to contact Franken about the matter since April 2005 but have gotten [...]