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1. • • Broadcaster and model Leeann Tweeden said Thursday that Al Franken “forcibly kissed” and groped her during a USO tour in 2006, two years before the Minnesota Democrat’s election to the U.S. Senate — prompting Franken to apologize and call for a Senate ethics investigation into his own actions.
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   Did Franken kiss a woman?

   • The other sidestepped him. The first incident occurred on April 28, 2006, in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Franken was broadcasting a live show at the Latchis Theatre, in front of seven hundred and fifty people. When a local elected official came onstage to hand him an award,he kissed her.

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   Did Franken Kiss Tweeden?

   • But Franken said, of Tweeden, “I don’t remember her being taken aback.”He adamantly denied having stuck his tongue in her mouth. Franken’s longtime fund-raiser, A. J. Goodman, a former criminal-defense lawyer, told me that it was “easy to see how it could have grossed Tweeden out” to be kissed by Franken.

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   Did Franken kiss a doctor in a 'USO' skit?

   • Explaining that her accusations appropriated jokes from comic routines that they’d performed together would be as dizzying as describing an Escher drawing. The U.S.O. skitdidn’t end with the kissing scene. In a coda, Franken appears as a doctor who has just had “a cancellation” in his appointment schedule.

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   What did Franken say in a farewell speech?

   • Franken gave an indignant farewell speech on the floor of the Senate in December. “I have earned a reputation as someone who respects the women I work alongside every day,” he said, soon after a former Democratic Senate aide accused him of trying to kiss her after his radio show in 2006.

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3. www.nbcnews.com › politics › congressAl Franken accused of forcibly kissing, groping Leeann Tweeden

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   Nov 16, 2017 · A radio news anchor on Thursday accused Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., of forcibly kissing and groping her a decade ago when they were overseas entertaining U.S. troops.

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   Nov 16, 2017 · A TV host and sports broadcaster has accused Sen. Al Franken of kissing and groping her without her consent in 2006. Leeann Tweeden took to Twitter on Thursday to accuse the Minnesota Democrat...

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   WASHINGTON — Sen. Al Franken on Wednesday denied a new sexual misconduct accusation that came from a former Democratic congressional aide that he tried to forcibly kiss her after a taping of...

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   Jul 22, 2019 · Franken’s fall was stunningly swift: he resigned only three weeks after Leeann Tweeden, a conservative talk-radio host, accused him of having forced an unwanted kiss on her during a 2006 U.S.O....

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   Nov 16, 2017 · WASHINGTON — A growing national outcry over sexual harassment reached the Senate on Thursday, when a radio newscaster accused Al Franken, Democrat of Minnesota, of kissing and groping her...

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   Nov 16, 2017 · Leeann Tweeden, a Los Angeles radio host and former model, says Senator Al Franken, a Minnesota Democrat, kissed her against her will and groped her during a 2006 USO trip to Kuwait, Iraq, and...

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    Nov 16, 2017 · Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., has apologized to the Los Angeles radio news anchor who on Thursday accused him of forcibly kissing and groping her while they were on a USO tour in 2006, before...