Disgraced former Sen. Al Franken spent 2006 sexually accosting women and launching the political career of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democrats’ presumptive vice presidential nominee. The two appear to remain close to this day.

Walz was a political newbie that year, challenging a Republican incumbent in a GOP-leaning district. Minneapolis’s Star Tribune carried this news item in July 2006 on the campaigns’ top donors:

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