Reciprocal love between Franken, the working class
By: Jeff Dufour and Kiki Ryan
Washington Examiner
07/09/09 12:05 AM EDT
Only one day in office and already Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is getting special treatment — special treatment from special interests groups.
Labor union AFL-CIO was the first group to cozy up to the new senator, hosting a party in his honor Tuesday evening at the union’s headquarters, only steps from the White House. And it soon became clear Franken is ready to give the love right back.
He told the crowd of AFL-CIO and Working America supporters — who were joined by his new colleagues, fellow Minnesotan Amy Klobuchar and Jon Tester of Montana — that his long-debated election win was because of them.
“It’s completely accurate to say that I wouldn’t have won this without you,” he said.
He also talked up his state’s tradition of having two senators who stood up for working- and middle-class families and how he was proud to now continue that tradition. And apparently he’s already made a move to do such, co-sponsoring the union-backed Employee Free Choice Act only hours after being sworn in.
We hope he’s ready to embrace working-class food as well. Corn dogs, perhaps left over from the Fourth, were served at the affair.
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