In light of Senator Al Franken’s recent run-ins with harassment claims, Brian Maloney, co-founder of the Media Equalizer, wrote of Franken’s peculiar behavior back in 2007.
“Some aspiring politicians find Jesus, but Al Franken would have you believe he’s had a conversion of his own, from Saturday Night Live goofball to Deadly Serious Issues Guy. He swears as much in a long, rambling video posted to his U.S. Senate campaign’s web site,” Maloney wrote.
“I want you to know,” said the candidate, speaking to a bookshelf crammed full of undoubtedly deep tomes, “that nothing means more to me than making government work better for the working families of this state. And over the next 20 months, I look forward to proving to you that I take these issues seriously.”
Nerd alert!
Even when relaxing Franken is apparently still quite the class clown, wrote Maloney.
According to several of Franken’s neighbors in a downtown Minneapolis luxury high-rise, the then-prospective senator “yells, ‘Go Al!’ and then puts his sweaty towel in his mouth, shakes his head back and forth, and growls like a dog,” says Lauren Zeller, a 28-year-old risk consultant. “The cycle repeats: ‘Go Al!,’ towel, shake head, growl.”
Maloney cited another instance where Hilary Cheeley, a health care technology project manager, said she that caught him yelling at the television during a Minnesota Twins game.
“When someone would strike out or whatnot he would say, ‘Oooh!’ or ‘C’mon, hit it!'” said Cheeley, “He was just kind of chatting up the TV while he was walking on the treadmill. I swear he was doing it just to get a rise out of me.”
Franken’s oddball behavior seemed well known around the condo building, Maloney wrote. It appears that Franken can add ‘sexual predator’ to his list of behavioral problems.
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