If his colleagues choose Sen. Al Franken as “most popular” Senator, it will probably be because of his wife’s baked-goods charm offensive.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were spotted chowing down on a giant apple pie that the Minnesota Democrat’s wife, Franni, baked for their Thursday meeting. Franni Franken made a “Paul Bunyan” (i.e. enormous) version of the apple pie that she became famous for during her husband’s campaign. The sweet treat was delivered to the committee’s anteroom, where Members eagerly noshed on it.
We hear Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) even suggested after tasting it that Sen. Franken owed his election to his wife’s baking prowess. And Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) confessed in the meeting that it was worth breaking his diet for.
And the pie wasn’t Franni Franken’s only sugary gift to the Senate of late: HOH hears she baked up some pumpkin cornbread that the Minnesota Democrat shared with colleagues during the last snowstorm.
