Al Franken in 2008
You might have been too busy watching the Top Chef season finale (Spoiler Alert: Ilan won; Marcel pouted) to hear that Al Franken is running for office in 2008. That’s right folks, you can vote for Franken next year. As long as you’re in Minnesota.
CNN reports that Franken has announced his candidacy for a seat in Senate representing his home state. The liberal, O’Reilly-beating comedian-turned-radio-host-turned-politician is running against incumbant Sen. Norm Coleman (R), whose first priority while in Congress is to “get things done for Minnesota.”
That’s going to be a tough platform to beat.
All this comes soon after Franken’s former project, Air America Radio, was bought out of bankruptcy by real estate mogul Stephen Green, founder and chairman of SL Green Realty Corp. No worries of Green being in cahoots with Murdoch, though. Says Minnesota’s KARE 11:
Green is the brother of Mark Green, a longtime New York politician who has also appeared frequently as a guest on Air America Radio.
Sigh of relief.
So no Franken on the squack box anymore, but if all goes well, maybe we can hear him on the Senate floor on C-SPAN.
Watch Franken tread on Scarborough Country:
20070206 11:22 am
As a matter of fact, I was too busy watching the Top Chef finale. Maybe I’m the only one, but I really wanted Marcel to one. He’s the geek of the show, and no one else got it. One of my co-workers had him as a TA at the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) and said that the show’s producers were portraying him in a way totally inconsistent from how he behaves in real life. Ilan is a chump who might have his one Spanish place, one day. Marcel deserved that win. If only those balsamic tear drops had worked out…
20070207 11:34 pm
You’re crazy and the only one who wanted Marcel to win. To be honest, I liked Elia the most, and if she says Marcel cheated, who am I to argue?
Us Hispanics have to stick together. But if we can’t, I still would have prefered Ilan if only for his reigniting my interest in paprika. Foam is just too complicated.
[Exeunt to life without Top Chef.]