Rep. Al Franken

[jshuberg]

His office isn't trying to infringe our rights, he is. I have respect for anyone who lawfully and faithfully occupies the office of MN Senator. When he oversteps his authority and presumes to infringe on the rights of the people, he loses all respect and can go **** himself.

[St. Olaf]

The point is, we should let our votes do the insulting......not our words.

Words of anger and insult will only fire up the other side and fortify them.

Attacking those who may be able to help us is sheer folly.

[Heffay]

The point is, we should let our votes do the insulting......not our words.

Words of anger and insult will only fire up the other side and fortify them.

Attacking those who may be able to help us is sheer folly.

It also makes us look even worse than the people we're insulting.

They may be a senator, but we can call them names like a third grader! IN YOUR FACE, amirite??

[chopper]

The point is, we should let our votes do the insulting......not our words.

Words of anger and insult will only fire up the other side and fortify them.

Attacking those who may be able to help us is sheer folly.

It also makes us look even worse than the people we're insulting.

They may be a senator, but we can call them names like a third grader! IN YOUR FACE, amirite??

Calling them names wont solve anything but a constant reminder of their actions, will make for a short political career might get them to rethink what they are about to do.

[LePetomane]

The point is, we should let our votes do the insulting......not our words.

Words of anger and insult will only fire up the other side and fortify them.

Attacking those who may be able to help us is sheer folly.

Do you think that these elected officials refer to their constituents in a respectful manner behind closed doors?

[Heffay]

The point is, we should let our votes do the insulting......not our words.

Words of anger and insult will only fire up the other side and fortify them.

Attacking those who may be able to help us is sheer folly.

Do you think that these elected officials refer to their constituents in a respectful manner behind closed doors?

So... Your defense is "they started it"?

[Li'l Beaver]

Apparently Sen. Franken only has one "boilerplate" e-mail response no matter what the topic which is not the way to get my vote or influence me, but then he is better than Harkin from Iowa, when I lived there I never got even a boilerplate response from him to my letters until I had a letter hand delivered to him by a person who was meeting with him. That one he did respond to!

[LarryP]

What has Franken done so far as a senator? I can't think of one thing. It's like he doesn't exist

[hunterfreakhd]

What has Franken done so far as a senator? I can't think of one thing. It's like he doesn't exist

This is a good thing.

[minnhawk]

Franken was a professional "clown" (comedian) before he was barely elected to the US Senate. Being a senator used to be a big fat hairy deal and was treated as an extreme honor with great dignity. Those days are over.

Franken was also a radio commentator with his own radio program -- the Left's version of Rush Limbaugh. The garbage that came out of his mouth when he was on the airwaves rivaled any of the outrageous BS that comes out of Rush from time-to-time. I can think of no qualifications Al Franken has that would qualify him to be a United States Senator over any other person except he has some name recognition. One can also accuse him of being a "carpet bagger" New York Liberal who "came home" to run for office. He may be was born and raised in Minnesota, but it is an extreme stretch to say that he didn't establish residency just to run for office. Al is a political whore.
He won by 312 votes with over 3,000,000 cast.

According to Forbes Magazine, The fact that 243 people have already been convicted or are awaiting trial on voter fraud underscores a persistent concern that, despite their small share of the vote, ineligible ballots can actually swing results.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrezza/ ... reduce-it/

[Hmac]

If we insult them, they will react the same way we would if they insulted us (directly, I mean).

If we insult them, they'll never know about it. These guys live in a bubble and the data they receive from "back home" is heavily filtered by their staff due in large part to the volume of correspondence that they receive. Short of voters standing up at a town meeting with him in attendance (has that ever happened with this guy?), Senators and Congressmen very rarely ever hear directly what individual consituents think of them. What they do care about is what the majority of their constituents think of them.

The message that these guys get can be pretty skewed based on the biases and attitudes of their staff. For all we know, Franken's staff is throwing away every other pro-gun email of letter he gets. Almost certainly they're tossing the ones that contain insults or threats.

A January poll proclaimed that Franken is "looking good" for reelection in 2014. He supposedly has a 52/41 approval rating. He pretty handily leads all of his potential 2014 opponents. http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/al-franken/

Of course...it's early yet. And I don't think we've seen all of the fallout from the gun control issue yet. Nevertheless, while we're writing letters and emails, let's not let Franken get off our radar. This issue might make him vulnerable.

[acerpower]

I've gotten about 8 auto response Emails from Franken(along with Franken-spam now), but I've yet to get one response from Klobuchar.

[LePetomane]

The point is, we should let our votes do the insulting......not our words.

Words of anger and insult will only fire up the other side and fortify them.

Attacking those who may be able to help us is sheer folly.

Do you think that these elected officials refer to their constituents in a respectful manner behind closed doors?

So... Your defense is "they started it"?

It's not a defense or a justification. Watch the movie, "The Third Man" with Orson Welles. There is a scene in it where Orson Welles proclaims, "They're just dots" when speaking of those whom he considers the little people. That is how the elitist politicians see us. They want to call themselves public servants. The public ends up serving them.

[Hmac]

It's not a defense or a justification. Watch the movie, "The Third Man" with Orson Welles. There is a scene in it where Orson Welles proclaims, "They're just dots" when speaking of those whom he considers the little people. That is how the elitist politicians see us. They want to call themselves public servants. The public ends up serving them.

Exactly. Since re-election becomes the primary job of any politician, the people they are supposed to serve immediately become just a statistical analysis toward that end...a series of dots on a graph of voter approval rating. Their constituents aren't people with problems to be solved, they're votes to be captured.

[LePetomane]

It is beyond me why "Minnesotans" idolize these politicians and place them on pedestals.