Al Franken’s bid to unseat incumbent Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) has hit a rough patch, as he tries to explain why he failed to pay worker’s compensation insurance on his employees in New York. The state says that he failed to pay for insurance on as many as 17 workers at a time, and that they began notifying him that he was breaking the law in April 2005 — after he was already in violation for three years.