Two Women Accuse Sen. Al Franken Of Touching Their Butts
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November 23, 2017
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November 24, 2017Two more women have accused Sen. Al Franken of sexual harassment. And by sexual harassment, I mean he allegedly touched their butts.
Yep. Al Franken has been accused of touching more butts.
The two additional women, who said they were not familiar with each others’ stories, both spoke on condition of anonymity. But their stories, which describe events during Franken’s first campaign for the Senate, are remarkably similar — and both women have been telling them privately for years.
One woman claims Franken groped her during a photo op at a Minnesota Women’s Political Caucus event in 2007.
Ah yes. At a women’s event. He’s so pro-women.
“My story is eerily similar to Lindsay Menz’s story,” she said, according to the Huffington Post. “He grabbed my buttocks during a photo op.”
The other woman said Franken “cupped her butt with his hand” at a Democratic fundraiser in Minneapolis back in 2008. He allegedly told her they should go to the bathroom together too. EWWWW.
“My immediate reaction was disgust,” the second woman said. “But my secondary reaction was disappointment. I was excited to be there and to meet him. And so to have that happen really deflated me. It felt like: ‘Is this really the person who is going to be in a position of power to represent our community?’”
“I can categorically say that I did not proposition anyone to join me in any bathroom,” Franken told HuffPost.
Also, he stared at another chick’s boobs in an obvious way.
HuffPost spoke to two sources close to the first woman who corroborated her account.
One fellow choir member, Sarah, remembers not only being there for the groping incident but hearing another choir member say that Franken wouldn’t stop looking at her chest.
Ten years ago, it was easier to shrug off predatory behavior as “boys being boys,” Sarah said, especially when that predatory behavior came from a political ally.
“At the time … people weren’t as willing to speak against people they felt like were on their side,” Sarah said. “It’s really disappointing. And it’s crappy. Ten years ago we were also at an age where there was still a feeling of powerlessness, or that boys will be boys.”
Franken ultimately told the HuffPo:
“It’s difficult to respond to anonymous accusers, and I don’t remember those campaign events.”
