Al Franken Mines ‘SNL’ Past In Bid For Google Fiber (VIDEO)
Saturday, March 13th, 2010
Drawing on footage from his decades in comedy, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) has joined the politicians bidding for their constituencies to test Google’s high-speed broadband fiber networks . Franken jokingly credited Google’s search engine as the reason he was able to run for the Senate instead of continuing to serve as “The Duluth Answer Man,” a character he played on “Saturday Night Live.” Franken didn’t go quite as far as the mayors of Topeka, Kansas or Sarasota, Florida — who temporarily changed their cities’ names to “Google” and “Google Island,” respectively — but he’s the biggest name so far to publicly angle for the search giant’s Web development project
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Al Franken Mines ‘SNL’ Past In Bid For Google Fiber (VIDEO)
