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Who is Al Franken?

From a friend's page with permission:

Not like the others?

“Another woman has come forward about Al Franken and this is a story you must read (below) I've been pretty quiet on this one but I feel like we have processes and procedures in Washington set by our founding Fathers and they are there for a reason. This current body of government is completely out of control. I believe the woman that did come forward but there are different degrees of misconduct and I wish they had let the ethics investigation happen and they had followed due process.

I have permission to share this story from my FB friend Sandra Levinson:

When my niece Francie was dying of colon cancer and about to celebrate her last birthday, i couldn't imagine what gift to send her. But I knew she adored Al Franken so I wrote to Al, whom I had never met, asking him if he would send her a flower, a card, anything, because he was her hero and her greatest hope was that she'd live long enough to see him elected.

Within the hour of receiving my note he answered saying he would be in Minneapolis that weekend and could visit her in the hospital Saturday or Sunday, which would be better? I told him that Saturday was her birthday and he said he'd be there about 4. I called my sister to tell her but of course warned her not to tell Francie. How could we be sure that a well known comic running to be senator would show up?

That Saturday In June I sat in my office in New York waiting, 4, 5, 6, almost 7 my sister called to say that Al had just left after nearly two hours w Francie. He'd brought all of his books (which she already owned), signed them with her (she insisted he sign one "to my greatest fan,", schmoozed w her and when he left she announced to her mom that it was
The best birthday she'd ever had.

But that was not all. He called her every week after that to see how she was doing. She was home then. One night In September i came home to a phone message from a very excited Francie, "Tía! I went to a fundraiser for Al, it was a garden party and when he came in he walked all across the garden to ME, to hug me and ask me how I was doing!"

The next night Francie collapsed and was taken to hospice in a Minneapolis hospital, in a coma. I flew there to spend nights with my sister in Francie's room. Al and Franni Franken came to visit Francie, stood at the foot of her bed and wept. When she died later that month Al came to sit shiva with the family.

These are kindnesses one never forgets.

This is Al Franken.”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029967061