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Another Woman Says She Was Groped by Al Franken

September 30, 2019 at 10:44 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A former staffer for Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) told New York magazine that she was groped by former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) at an event in 2006.

She said that when it was her turn to be photographed with Franken, “he puts his hand on my ass. He’s telling the photographer, ‘Take another one. I think I blinked. Take another one.’ And I’m just frozen. It’s so violating. And then he gives me a little squeeze on my buttock, and I am bright red. I don’t say anything at the time, but I felt deeply, deeply uncomfortable.”

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