Talk of a Franken Senate bid is flying

11/26/2006

Star Tribune
Last update: November 22, 2006 – 9:39 PM


The political blogosphere was slightly atwitter Wednesday with a rumor that Al Franken might make an announcement next week about a 2008 run in Minnesota for the U.S. Senate. The speculation was spurred by Franken's comments Tuesday to CNN's Lou Dobbs that he and his family would be "deciding" the matter over the Thanksgiving weekend.


Actually, this weekend will be just the beginning of the deciding process about a Senate run and about the future of his syndicated radio show, Franken clarified Wednesday.


"My son is just home from college, so we'll talk about it over Thanksgiving and probably over Christmas, too," said Franken, who plans to travel again on a USO tour to Iraq. He added that he "probably won't have any announcement until January