General Discussion

You forget that Gillibrand went to Franken’s office with the resignation letter and a gun. She held the gun to Franken’s head and told him either his signature or his brains would be on the resignation.

Of course that did not happen. But many here act like it did. In fact there seems to be an almost willful ignorance of the serious of events that led to Franken’s resignation resignation. First, Franken announced his press conference about his political future, after the 8th allegation the before any of the other Senators called for his resignation. It was obviously an effort co-ordinated by leadership. However according to some here Gillibrand called for him to resign after the first allegation and then somehow forced, or blackmailed, over 30 other Senators to do so as well. And Franken was the most progressive and effective Senator who ever lived. The truth is that Franken was a good Senator but other than his questioning of Jeff Sessions, no one can cite a single accomplishment of his.

Gillibrand was just re-elected with almost 67% of the vote, so outside the DU bubble the whole Franken thing hasn’t hurt her.