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Meet Al Franken’s Replacement

(Reuters) – Minnesota’s Democratic Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith was appointed as U.S. senator on Wednesday to replace Al Franken, who resigned after being accused of sexual harassment, the state’s governor said at a news conference.

Governor Mark Dayton said Smith will serve a term concluding in January 2019. Smith, 59, will run in a special election for the seat next year.

Smith became lieutenant governor in January 2015. The Star Tribune said she previously worked as Dayton’s chief of staff and held positions at General Mills and Planned Parenthood.

Minnesota Lt. Governor Tina Smith waves to journalists at the end of a news conference in a Hotel in Havana, Cuba, June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini/File Photo

Last week Franken, 66, also a Democrat, announced his resignation from the seat he has held since 2009. The former comedian has denied some of the allegations against him and questioned others. Reuters has not independently verified the accusations against Franken.

Minnesota will soon have two women senators, as Smith will join fellow Democrat Amy Klobuchar, 57, who was elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2012.

The Republican Party’s slim majority in the Senate will not be affected by the move to replace Franken.

Democrats will gain a seat to cut Republican’s majority in the 100-member Senate to 51 after Tuesday night’s victory by Doug Jones over Republican candidate Roy Moore in a special election in Alabama.

(Corrects paragraph 5 to show Klobuchar was first elected in 2006 then reelected in 2012)

Reporting by Gina Cherelus; Editing by Bill Trott

 

23 Comments on Meet Al Franken’s Replacement

  1. The death knell for white DemoCRAPs being able to run for any office under the DemoCRAP party or having any important position in the New Democrap party of Minorities is well near nigh!

  2. They have found their winning strategy. We need to use smear tactics in every election from now on just like the dems will do. If not this country is toast. Fight or die.
    No more “that’s not who we are.” What good is playing nice when the enemy fights dirty? Get ready for the sex war on the President. It’s going to get very, very nasty.

  3. At what point are Democrat men going to see they’ve started a war on themselves and they are going to be losing seats left and right to women if their woman have anything to do with it.

  4. seriously … can someone please appoint me to be Senator (aka Free Ride For The Rest Of My Life) for the next 2 years (heck, make it for the next 6 months), ’cause I want a free pension, free healthcare for the rest of my life, get-out-of-jail-free card (drowning young women, waitress sandwiches), free trips to anywhere, legal insider trading … & I promise not to grope too many people, including Marci Kaptur (unless she shows me some cleavage .. then all bets are off!) 😛
    https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/13/marcy-kaptur-womens-clothing-sexual-harassment-294974

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