Stuart Smalley Is Dialing For Dollars
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Comedian Al Franken really, really wants to be a U.S. Senator from Minnesota. So much so that he’s got a telephone campaign going to raise money for the vote recount.
I know because a call came all the way across the Mississippi and Hudson Rivers to my Yonkers home yesterday. The pitch: “Support our effort to make sure that the recount is conducted fairly and every vote is counted properly.”
Franken, a Democrat and creator of the wimpy, 12-step Saturday Night Live character Stuart Smalley, is trying to unseat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The race is too close to call…Out of 2.9 million votes cast, Coleman leads Smalley, I mean Franken, by about 200 votes.
This is a critical race for Coleman because if he loses, he’ll go down in history as the only politician to lose major elections to both Franken and former wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura, who beat him in a three-way race for governor.
The Republican National Committee is solicting funds for the recount, too, but they haven’t called me yet. Our answer to the Franken phone caller: ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Not today, friend.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
