At the Minnesota State Fair in 2010 Lindsay Menz was hanging out in a local radio booth sponsored by her dad’s small business. Per CNN, she spent the day taking photos with various elected officials, political candidates, and celebrities who stopped by the booth. Eventually, Senator Al Franken walked in, Menz and her husband said they recognized him right away. Menz said she had a brief and friendly exchange with the senator.
Then, as her husband held up her phone and got ready to snap a photo of the two of them, Franken “pulled me in really close, like awkward close, and as my husband took the picture, he put his hand full-fledged on my rear,” Menz said. “It was wrapped tightly around my butt cheek.” “It wasn’t around my waist. It wasn’t around my hip or side. It was definitely on my butt,” she said, recalling