Senator Al Franken gave a rousing keynote speech at Netroots Nation 2011 on "The Attack on the Middle Class and the Plan to Fight Back."
"This is the state that sent Hubert Humphrey, the middle-class son of a pharmacist, to the U.S. Senate, where he cheerfully waged - and usually won - great battles in the name of the young and the old, the poor and the vulnerable, the oppressed and the disenfranchised. . . Today, 100 years after Hubert Humphrey was born, nearly half a century after Walter Mondale began his legendary career in public service, and two decades after Paul Wellstone won his first race for the Senate, we gather in Minnesota to take stock."
Listen to Senator Franken's 23 minute speech or read the transcript.
