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Franken Thanks Supporters At Reception -- Or At Least 95% Of Them
Here's a video from yesterday, courtesy of our friends at The Uptake, of Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) speaking to a reception held in his honor at the Hart Senate Office Building after he'd been sworn in.
When speaking of his family, his friends, supporters, and the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, Franken was frequently choking back tears -- as he noted, he has a tendency to stop just short of actually crying. And he also got in some nice jokes:
"If I thanked everyone here individually, who helped in this campaign, I would be thanking virtually everybody in this room," Franken said. "There's a couple of you who are kind of -- just here for the ride. (The crowd laughs.) But, 95% of you in this room had a tremendous amount to do with this victory."
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See there. He told a joke. He's just the clown the Republicans have been warning us about. Pretty soon he'll have everybody laughing at the GOPpers and then...well you know...it just won't be good is all.
And what's this co-sponcership of The Employee Free Choice Act? See? Jokes AND supporting workers rights. It just never ends with this guy.
July 8, 2009 10:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, so very pleased to see him bring the funny, and so appropriately.
Not that I had any doubts.
July 8, 2009 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink