Despite a “warm welcome” from most Senate Democrats at a weekly policy lunch this week, T. Boone Pickens and Senator Al Franken (D-MN) got into a “lively conversation,” POLITICO reports.
Or at least that’s how Franken’s spokeswoman chose to describe it.
According to a source, the wealthy oil and gas magnate and author of “The First Billion Is the Hardest” stepped up to introduce himself to Franken in a room just off the Senate Floor after the lunch ended Franken, who was seated talking to someone else, did not stand when Pickens said hello. Instead, Franken began to berate him about the billionaire’s financing of the Swift Boat ads in 2004. According to a source, the confrontation grew heated.
Said Franken spokeswoman Jess McIntosh: “It was a lively conversation.”
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