12-07-2017, 01:43 PM
(12-06-2017, 07:50 PM)Maggot Wrote: Franken won by a very slim margin anyways I don't see him getting re-elected at this point.
Actually.........
It's true that Franken narrowly won his first election in 2008 and wasn't declared the winner until after a legal challenge by his Republican competitor. It was very close -- something like 300 votes in Franken's favor. He campaigned on a pledge to help improve people's lives.
In his first term, he pushed through a pilot program using service dogs to assist disabled veterans, contributed a national diabetes prevention act to the Affordable Health Care Act, authored two provisions of the Violence Against Women Act (one to ensure victims don’t have to pay for rape kits and another to prevent housing discrimination against domestic-violence victims), co-authored the energy section of the farm bill, worked to secure $55 million in grant money for mental health services in schools, and sponsored the “Community College to Career Fund Act” - engaging community and technical colleges in workforce development.
He ran for his second term in 2014 and stomped his Republican competitor, easily winning re-election by 11 points and has since become a strong voice in the Democratic party.
I think he would have been elected again were it not for the ass-grabbing allegations. But, on that point, we just have a difference of opinion.
Anyway, he'll be resigning in the next couple of weeks and another Democratic senator will fill his seat.