Al Franken will seek third term in 2020
Source: Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: May 30, 2017 at 2:44 pm | UPDATED: May 30, 2017 at 2:54 pm
If anyone doubted Al Franken loves his job and wants to keep it for a long time, Minnesotas junior U.S. senator announced in a Pioneer Press interview last week that he plans to seek a third term in 2020.
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While he lampoons President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans and the rest of the Washington establishment, he writes that being a senator is the greatest if not most fun job hes ever had. And he figuratively gives lots of big, sloppy kisses to the Minnesota folks back home.
He concludes his serious-but-hilarious work by stressing the importance of remembering whom hes serving and how (expletive) great they are.
Read more: http://www.twincities.com/2017/05/30/al-franken-will-seek-third-term-in-2020/
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)he is holding the Senate.
kimbutgar
(21,148 posts)But unfortunately those rethug superpacs will try to destroy him with his old SNL clips
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)Still, I'd love to see Franken as POTUS!
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Al is a great Democrat and we need him in the Senate. He's a very funny man, too.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He may not have national appeal in that way. I don't know. But I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.