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Showing Original Post only (View all)Major Dem donor hints she'll withhold funds after 'vigilante' Democrats forced Al Franken to resign [View all]
Major Dem donor hints shell withhold funds after 'vigilante' Democrats forced Al Franken to resignBrad Reed 25 APR 2018 AT 10:31 ET
Susie Tompkins Buell, a major Democratic Party donor and longtime supporter of Hillary Clinton, is hinting that she will withhold money from Democrats who were instrumental in forcing former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) to resign amid sexual harassment allegations.
In an interview with Politico, Buell says that she believes Franken got railroaded by his fellow Democrats into resigning after multiple women accused him of inappropriately touching them.
I feel like it was so unfair, she says. It seemed like the people that forced him outit was like vigilantes on the rampage. It just struck me as so wrong.
Buell singled out Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for her being the first Democratic senator to call for Frankens resignation.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/major-dem-donor-hints-shell-withhold-funds-vigilante-democrats-forced-al-franken-resign/
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Major Dem donor hints she'll withhold funds after 'vigilante' Democrats forced Al Franken to resign [View all]
workinclasszero
Apr 2018
OP
No, Franken was a huge loss - it was the railroad job that helped the Repubs.
PatrickforO
Apr 2018
#75
Couldn't agree more..seems to me Gillibrand opened mouth, inserted foot...
asiliveandbreathe
Apr 2018
#7
I would expect Gillibrand would have been more pragmatic when the Franken issue was
asiliveandbreathe
Apr 2018
#41
Gillibrand's "A" rating from the NRA was downgraded to an "F" in 2010 after she was elected...
Dark n Stormy Knight
Apr 2018
#97
Good. Gillibrand went from my short-list of picks to my No-Way-in-Hell List for that shit!
Stand and Fight
Apr 2018
#9
There could not be an ethics investigation because the people that would have
standingtall
Apr 2018
#67
Yeah, where is KB in front of cameras demanding the resignation of the pussy grabber in chief
workinclasszero
Apr 2018
#77
Led to fragging our own by Roger Stone and his friend Leeann Tweeden. Suckers-nt
poboy2
Apr 2018
#79
I hope she still donates to the non witchhunters, notice how none of those women pursued
diane in sf
Apr 2018
#78
Wow, that was extremely out of bounds? A Democratic, rich, entitled donor?
Ferrets are Cool
Apr 2018
#106
Yea Im pissed Franklin resigned but Im apopoletic about Trump. Forgive and forget
Pepsidog
Apr 2018
#117
Good. Yes, Gillibrand spearheaded it. Because Franken was in the way of her Presidential plans.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2018
#120
In days gone past, they once thought the pulp in orange juice wasn't worth keeping
nolabels
Apr 2018
#121