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Party: DFL
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Date of Birth: 05/21/1951
Place of Birth: New York, N.Y.
Education: BA, General Studies, Harvard University, 1973
Positions Held: Founder, Midwest Values PAC
Business/Professional Experience: Host, The O'Franken Factor, Air America Radio, 2004 -2006; Served as a Fellow with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, 2003; Writer, Saturday Night Live, 1973-1980, 1985-1995
Religion: Jewish
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U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken has hired a new
campaign manager with experience in helping a Democratic challenger
unseat a Republican incumbent.
(05/15/2008)
DFL Senate candidate Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer claims significant support among DFL state convention delegates. And some observers say Al Franken's tax problems could make an opening for him.
(05/11/2008)
Tax experts say Al Franken's accountant should have known that Franken needed to pay taxes in the 19 different states where Franken earned money in the last four years.
(05/02/2008)
DFLer Al Franken's campaign has been scrambling to shore up support among the people who will decide on the party's Senate endorsement.
(04/30/2008)
DFL U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken says he is paying tens of thousands of dollars in back income taxes to more than a dozen states. Franken says he became aware of the taxes owed after a recent review of his books following other tax problems.
(04/29/2008)
DFL Senate hopeful Al Franken is dismissing accusations that he is evading paying back taxes as partisan attacks.
(04/27/2008)
Officials with Al Franken's Senate campaign
say his accountants are trying to determine whether the Democrat
owes back taxes in California or anyplace else.
(04/25/2008)
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Senate race in the country in 2008.
(04/20/2008)
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personal corporation didn't file corporate income tax returns in California from 2003 to 2007.
(04/16/2008)
DFLer Al Franken is ripping Sen. Norm Coleman for wanting to make the Bush tax cuts permanent for the wealthiest Americans. Coleman says raising taxes on anyone right now would be bad for the economy.
(04/14/2008)
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