I'll say it up front, I've always been bullish on Al Franken, even when others here were ripping on him, and already giving up on the race, and lamenting how the race would've been better with Ciresi or Nelson-Pallmeyer.  And one of the arguments used against Franken was that he had pissed off some other prominent Minnesota Democrats like Congresspeople Betty McCollum and Keith Ellison and Amy Klobuchar.  There was quite a bit of hand-wringing going on.

Well, take a look below the fold to see what's happened in the last couple days.  (And from the links, yes, I got this stuff from MN Publius.

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Today my representative endorsed Barack Obama. I was going to write something else but it's not every day that you're congresswomen endorses you're canidate. So I'll postpone my post until tomorrow and talk about Betty's endorsement today. This endorsement is the third anti-war women endorsement in three days. Congresswomen Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) also endorsed Obama.

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(Well, 1/535th of Congress, at least. A journey of a thousand miles...)

Let's hear it for Betty McCollum of MN-4! Like the Tank Man of Tianamen Square, she has dared to face the overwhelming force of a noxious tyranny, and risks perishing as easily. (In her case, just politically, thanks be. So far as I'm aware.)

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[McCollum] says AIPAC is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an activist who called her a terrorist supporter.

[She] said the supporter of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee told her chief of staff that "McCollum's support for terrorists will not be tolerated."

Why should she have attracted the attention of AIPAC muscle?

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