Al Franken

I saw half the Democratic senators want Al Franken to resign. This leads to these thoughts. First, do they know more? That is, the stuff I’ve seen is pre-politician, so why are they demanding he resign? Has he done more they know about while in Congress? Second, is this a purity drive? Can’t tell and those are unproductive in general so I downgrade the possibility, though I accept the idea it may be one. Third, is this a strategy? As in, make one of ours resign to increase pressure on Trump, leading to resignation or impeachment for his past conduct with women. That has some appeal but it has risk: it’s not given the GOP won’t win the seat after a short-timer is appointed to fill it. And there’s risk of course that Trump won’t resign because he was elected President and what the other party says is meaningless to him.