{"id":135258,"date":"2017-12-20T15:08:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135258"},"modified":"2017-12-21T07:12:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T13:12:02","slug":"franken-to-officially-leave-senate-jan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=135258","title":{"rendered":"Franken to officially leave US Senate Jan 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-133099\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FrankenAl-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FrankenAl-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FrankenAl-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/FrankenAl.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Sen. Al Franken plans to officially leave the U.S. Senate on Jan. 2, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The announcement Wednesday from a Franken spokesman should put to rest questions surrounding the timing of the Minnesota Democrat&#8217;s departure and concern that he might reverse his planned resignation<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Franken announced earlier this month that he would leave &#8220;in the coming weeks&#8221; amid several sexual misconduct allegations. His office later indicated it would come sometime in early January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gov. Mark Dayton&#8217;s choice to replace Franken, Lt. Gov. Tina Smith, is set to be sworn in Jan. 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Smith will keep some of Franken&#8217;s top staff when she takes office. She plans to run for the seat in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) \u2014 Sen. Al Franken plans to officially leave the U.S. Senate on Jan. 2, 2018. The announcement Wednesday from a Franken spokesman should put to rest questions surrounding the timing of the Minnesota Democrat&#8217;s departure and concern that he might reverse his planned resignation. Franken announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135275,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135258\/revisions\/135275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}