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(2,574 posts)then I'm 1000% behind Tompkins Buell.
These Dem Senators acted without granting Franken due process, pressured ("mobbed" him to resign before all the facts were out. It's been a month of the majority of DUers expressing anger, frustration, outrage at our own Senators here. No amount of emails, calls to these Dem Senators. or protest posts here have had any effect upon the Dem leadership or their position against Franken. Nor has our millions of Democratic voices in opposition resulted in any kind of release of additional, convincing info confirming that instant ostracism of Franken was justified. The case ag Franken, as understood by us mere lay Democrats, is full of gapping,swiftboatish holes and appears an extreme, opportunistic overreaction by Senators in our own Party.
What they have managed to do is not only cheat Minnesotans and us all of a hard fought, duly elected, beloved senator; they have also cast a very dark cloud over Franken's ethics and political future. The facts, as far as the public knows, neither convincing nor proportionate to the "sentence"this mob of our own senators took upon themselves to levy upon Franken. Nobody understands why Franken was ostracized, kneecapped, railroaded. " What did he do?", asked on SNL, then the mystery evolves into into "What did he really do?"as our Democratic Senators continued stonewalling. The objection from Manchin finally(!) some indication that there really is no further info, no real case ag Franken. But no one admits it, so Franken now becomes a reliable Reoublican punchlne.
I'm a Democrat who has worked and donated to our Party for fifty years. My emails to my Ca Senators fell on deaf, autoresponse ears. If it takes a big donor to push the Democrats in the Senate to address the abject anger of their constituents, to provide a convincing explanation of why they felt compelled to en masse condemn him, OR to force them to admit they made a mistake and apologize to Franken and to their voters, then I am 1000% on board.
The "Franken Affair" is not going away. This needs resolution ASAP, this mess needs to be cleaned up. Only the Republicans put Party First. Only the Republicans hunker down behind their lies and mistakes, lack the maturity to correct or apologize. Ignoring or stonewalling is what Republicans do.
We are Democrats not Republicans.