WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., confronted T. Boone Pickens over the oil billionaire's financing of Swift Boat ads in the 2004 campaign, witnesses said.
Pickens was invited to address the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Thursday on his proposals for wind energy. Citing a source, Politico reported Friday that as Pickens introduced himself to Franken, the newly seated junior senator from Minnesota remained in his chair and began to berate Pickens for funding an ad campaign that depicted Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as not deserving of the military honors he received during the Vietnam War.