Sen Franken: I like Ted Cruz probably more than my colleagues like Ted Cruz, & I hate Ted Cruz.

[kpete]

“I like Ted Cruz probably more than my colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz.”


In an interview on his new book, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken dishes on his fellow senators.

After all, who could do it better? The tongue-in-cheek title of the memoir, being published May 30 by Twelve, is Al Franken: Giant of the Senate, by Al Franken.

Here's what he told us.

On Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

"The day you're sworn in, especially the first time, is just amazingly exciting, and Elizabeth comes up to me (just after being sworn in). ... She goes, 'Which one of us is the most unlikely to be a senator? And I said, 'Me!' She said, 'No, no. Girl from Oklahoma, had to waitress to get her family through, married at 19!' I went, 'I'm a comedian; you're a law professor.' "

They didn't settle the debate. "We sort of agreed not to resolve this so we can continue to have the argument."

On Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas

"You have to understand that I like Ted Cruz probably more than my colleagues like Ted Cruz, and I hate Ted Cruz." He is "just a special guy."


MORE:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/23/al-franken-likes-elizabeth-warren-ted-cruz-not-so-much/102022350/

[csziggy]

1. Oh, Senator Franken, you're way too modest

You are more than a comedian:
"He attended Harvard College where he majored in government, graduating cum laude (top 25% of the class) with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Franken#Early_life_and_education

[Hortensis]

2. Love it! And them. Hope people keep quoting from his new book

long enough for me to avoid paying retail.

[Wawannabe]

3. Hate me some Cruz too

Tell em Franken!

[Paladin]

4. Warren/Franken---or Franken/Warren---2020 (if not sooner). (nt)

[monmouth4]

6. Either way would please me too. N/T

[Cha]

5. Whoa!