Showing posts with label Sen. Al Franken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sen. Al Franken. Show all posts

Monday, December 29, 2014

Attack from the "Warren flank" of the left party

December 29, 2014 Antonio Weiss , Barack Obama 0 Comments
Franken Takes On Obama

Peter Sullivan, Dec. 28, 2014, The Hill"Join me in asking the President to withdraw Antonio Weiss’s nomination," Franken wrote in an email to supporters on Sunday, with a link to the petition. "We need a nominee who will put the middle class first."

Franken wrote that Weiss has worked on manuevers called "inversions," which are mergers that seek to lower a company's tax burden in the United States.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Next generation of "journalists"

September 03, 2014 Newsbusters.org , P.J. Gladnick 0 Comments
Univ. of Minn Paper Makes Excuses for Sen. Franken After He Declines Campus Debate

P.J. Gladnick, Sept. 3, 2014, Newsbusters.org
Imagine the student association at your university wages a Twitter campaign to get the two candidates for the U.S. Senate seat to agree to a debate on campus. The challenger agrees but the incumbent senator declines.. Disappointing? Yes. But guess who the student newspaper on that campus lavishes praise upon? The candidate who declined to debate.

How does that happen? When the incumbent senator who declined the debate has the magic "D" next to his name as happened in Minnesota when Al Franken declined the invitation of the student government to debate his opponent. The student newspaper, the Minnesota Daily, after registering a barely perceptible bit of disappointment in Franken for declining to debate then went on to heap praise upon his overall record. Oh, and for his opponent who actually did agree to debate? Not a word of praise.

A U.S. senator and candidate in November’s election refused an invitation last week to debate at the University of Minnesota despite a heavy push on social media, prompting student leaders to question how candidates prioritize college-age voters on their campaign trails.

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., denied the request from members of the Minnesota Student Association. Although student leaders expressed dismay, experts say debates aren’t the best route for politicians to sway voters.

Larry Jacobs, a political science professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, said debates are often less effective than other person-to-person types of voter outreach, like canvassing neighborhoods or holding registration drives.

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