Radio host Al Franken, who is mulling a run against Republican Senator Norm Coleman in 2008, has purchased a town house on the edge of downtown Minneapolis and will establish residency in Minnesota.
"It's one of the things I need to do if I decide to make a run," Franken said from his current home in New York. "I haven't made the decision yet, but if I do, I'll have to have been living in Minnesota a while."
Franken, 53, also plans to relocate his Air America radio show to Minnesota early next year. He grew up in St. Louis Park, but has not lived in Minnesota since he was 22.
"But I've always come home a lot, mostly to visit my mom, who passed away a year and a half ago," he said. "And I've always had a lot of friends there. Like a lot of people who live in Manhattan, after all these years I still consider myself a Minnesotan."
Franken, a former writer and performer for "Saturday Night Live," is the author of the recent book, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)|
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