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Franken's Senate debut: Appropriate levity or class clown?

MinnPost
July 17, 2009

Larry Jacobs comments on Senator Franken's questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

"He has given us a lot of rhetoric about not being a show horse," Jacobs continued. "So, why did he throw in the Perry Mason thing? Why did he not just go into his very reasonable questions about judicial activism? Instead there seems to be a very driven need for cleverness."

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