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Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Michael Meehan likes to host parties, a lot of parties. Meehan is CEO of Venn Squared, a lobbying and communications group in Washington with some high profile clients. Tonight, Meehan and his firm threw a cocktail celebration for Sen. Al Franken’s new Chief of Staff, Casey Aden-Wansbury. She was elevated to run his office after Drew [...]
HOLIDAY BUST: MAJOR DFL DONOR SUSPECTED OF NEARLY $300K IN FRAUD
Sunday, December 25th, 2011Longtime progressive activist and donor Jason Sheedy was moving from his St. Paul home to a Minneapolis condo in 2007 when he reported to his insurance company that nearly $300,000 worth of his artwork and historical treasures were suddenly stolen. His insurance company wrote him a check for nearly all of the losses he claimed [...]
NAMED: FORMER FRANKEN AIDE IS WHITE HOUSE STAFFER THAT LOST IT WITH REPORTER OVER SOLYNDRA
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011Eric Schultz, a former aide to Senator Al Franken is playing a small role in the ongoing Solyndra scandal that is plauging the Obama Administration. Schultz, whom one reporter called the Franken campaign’s “chief purveyor of skullduggery“, reportedly screamed at one CBS investigative reporter looking in to the President’s role in the now-bankrupt company that [...]
FRANKEN CHIEF OF STAFF BAILS TO HELP STIMULUS RECIPIENT LOBBY FOR GREEN FUEL
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011National and local sources are reporting that Senator Al Franken’s former Chief of Staff, Drew Littman, will be taking on a role lobbying for California-based biofuel producer, Solazyme, Inc. Littman left the office a couple weeks ago and is part of a mass exodus by several staffers from Franken’s circle in recent months. But Littman’s [...]
KLOBUCHAR AND FRANKEN BACK AN OVER-BUDGET, GOVERNMENT-RUN INTERNET PROJECT THAT BYPASSED MN TAXPAYERS
Sunday, July 24th, 2011Officials gathered in Lakefield, MN on Friday to hold a groundbreaking ceremony for another government-run broadband project that is already costing local taxpayers more than they bargained for. You may remember previous coverage of the northwoods broadband project cloaked in controversy that is now on hold. The group organizing the Southwest Minnesota Broadband Services (SWMBS) [...]
NEW AD HITS FRANKEN FOR OVERREGULATING YOUR INTERNET
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011From Powerline, a new ad released hitting U.S. Senator Al Franken on his steadfast support of Net Neutrality: “Net neutrality” is the Left’s euphemism for regulation of the internet. It is a solution for which no known problem exists. Also, you can tell it is a bad idea because it is being promoted by Al [...]
FORGET JOB CREATION, KLOBUCHAR WANTS TO REGULATE INTERNET STREAMING
Saturday, May 28th, 2011For Sen. Amy Klobuchar, bringing America’s economy back to life is one of those back burner issues. However, in the lucrative world of internet content streaming, Minnesotans can feel confident their senior senator is well versed. This month, Sen. Klobuchar introduced S. 978, a bill to increase penalties for those that stream internet content illegally. [...]
REPORT: SNL CAST MEMBER SNUBBED FRANKEN FOR BIG CASH AFTER HE CONTINUOUSLY BEGGED
Thursday, April 14th, 2011The Philadelphia Daily News is reporting in their Celebrities section this morning that SNL star Tina Fey and U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken had a somewhat testy exchange during the ’08 campaign over his request for thousands in contributions. Fey made a comment during her appearance at the Free Library in Philadelphia. She was asked [...]
MN DFL CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION WILLING TO FORCE A GOVT SHUTDOWN TO PROTECT PUBLICLY-FUNDED ABORTION
Friday, April 8th, 2011With only hours remaining before a required government shutdown would take place, multiple sources are reporting Washington Democrats and Republicans are divided over a proposal by the GOP to stop funding public abortions through Planned Parenthood. Minnesota’s Representatives and both Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar have voiced no opposition to their respective leadership teams [...]
WILL WASHINGTON DFL’ERS LET AMERICA HAVE THE HIGHEST CORPORATE TAX RATE IN THE WORLD?
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010The press is reporting today that Japan announced they will be lowering their corporate tax rate by 5% to “spur growth.” Japan currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world, followed closely by the United States. With this new tax cut by the Japanese, America will become number one with an average corporate tax [...]
EMBARASSMENT: MN SENATORS CO-SPONSOR UNCONSTITUTIONAL FDA BILL
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Minnesota Senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar co-sponsored S 510, also known as the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. The bill passed the Senate on Tuesday, but now a constitutional question has risen as the House contemplates not accepting the bill. Section 107 of this legislation includes new taxes. The problem is that Article 1, [...]
KLOBUCHAR AND FRANKEN VOTE TO PROTECT PORK
Tuesday, November 30th, 2010Today’s cloture vote on an amendment from Sen. Coburn to ban earmarks from legislation in the U.S. Senate failed while both of Minnesota’s Senators voiced their lack of concern over pork-barrel spending by voting “no”. A similar measure was passed recently by the House of Representatives and the Coburn motion would have banned earmark spending [...]
MDE EXCLUSIVE: ETHICS COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST SEN. AL FRANKEN
Thursday, September 16th, 2010Senate Accountability Watch filed an ethics complaint against U.S. Senator Al Franken. Here is an excerpt from the letter: You can read more of the documents here. Check back with MDE for more on this developing story…
FRANKEN LOSES HIS TEMPER ON KFAN
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010This is a segment that Al Franken had today on KFAN with talk show host Dan Barriero. Listen here The entire time after the segment, Barriero was in shock over Franken’s actions.
TV CLIPS ABOUT AL FRANKEN’S FAILURE TO PAY WORKERS’ COMP INSURANCE
Friday, March 7th, 2008This 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. ### This post also appears on Blogs for Norm!, an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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