![]() “Growing up on an Iowa farm, Joni represents the voice of our ag community. Iowans across all 99 counties are fired up to reelect Joni Ernst: “I’m honored to stand shoulder to shoulder with this team and will continue to fight as Iowa’s tireless defender, to ensure we stay the course toward a brighter future with opportunity for all.” “The excitement, energy and enthusiasm continues to grow as we build our grassroots army focused on standing up for Iowa and pushing back on the coastal liberal insanity,” said Joni Ernst. ![]() These dedicated leaders come from all 99 counties and have already launched into organizing activities, building a robust grassroots operation across the state. We’ll see.Today, Joni for Iowa is announcing the first 1,000 County Chairs. ![]() It is, for now, suspicious in the extreme and appears likely to be a conservative ratfuck. ¹There’s allegedly a second accusation coming out later today, something that Roger Stone tweeted about last night. Leeann Tweeden: I’m not asking for that /Nx0xcZkUyz Listen to Leeann Tweeden, folks.ĭo you think Al Franken should step down or be expelled from the Senate? But if the only response we have to any kind of sexual abuse is to insist on resignation from office and expulsion from public life-mostly to protect our own reputations-we are not acting with any sense of proportionality. Once.¹ It’s no whitewash to say that this is a considerably lesser offense. Roy Moore routinely chased after high school girls when he was in his 30s and appears to have aggressively assaulted at least two of them.īy contrast, Franken thought he was joking around but went farther than he should have. masturbated in front of actresses multiple times. Harvey Weinstein’s rap sheet includes dozens of accusations of groping, forced massages, and possibly rape. Saying this doesn’t imply approval of either shoplifting or assault it’s merely a statement of uncontroversial fact. Shoplifting is not as bad as grand theft. The second problem is that we don’t seem to have any good way of talking proportionately about this stuff.Īll I mean is this: Not all offenses are the same. The first is that too many liberals feel that they have to respond in a maximal way to every possible incident of sexual harassment, partly to maintain their own woke credibility and partly because they want to make sure conservatives can’t accuse them of hypocrisy. The odds are very low that he can, particularly since his entire career in politics and comedy is now going to come under fresh scrutiny for misogyny and/or hypocrisy. Ed Kilgore thinks Franken is toast:įranken is almost certainly going down, and the only question is whether he can somehow tough it out until the end of his current term in 2020. “Do you accept his apology?” “I do…the one that came out this morning, I accepted that one too…I believe him. Oddly, Tweeden herself thought his apology had been just fine. “No matter what your political affiliation,” wrote Chris Cillizza at CNN, “you have to see how inadequate Franken’s first apology is.” So Franken apologized again. This prompted the now drearily familiar round of pronouncements that he hadn’t apologized enough. ![]() #MeToo įranken immediately acknowledged what had happened and apologized. During a rehearsal for a skit that included a kiss, she says, he stuck his tongue in her mouth, and then took this picture on the way home: Al Franken had behaved inappropriately toward her during a USO tour of the Middle East in 2006. Earlier this morning, radio newscaster Leeann Tweeden revealed that Sen. ![]()
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