The New York State Worker’s Compensation Board has levied a $25,000 fine against U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken’s personal corporation, since he failed to provide workers’ compensation insurance for nearly three years.

Priceless video to follow:

So let’s get this straight: The Worker’s Comp. Board started sending Franken notices at his New York address in April 2005. Franken’s campaign told The Washington Times that he never got them, since he had moved back to Minnesota. But a Minnesota muckraking website shows that Franken voted in New York during the interim. Oops.

Franken, of course, won’t acknowledge that he did anything wrong. This despite his alignment with U.S. labor unions (click on a, b, c, d, e), which usually don’t take too kindly to stuffed shirts messing with their strong-armed benefits. Franken is even a big supporter of a movement to let labor unions “organize” U.S. workplaces without secret-ballot elections (something called the “Employee Free Choice Act,” if you can believe that).

I’ll let The New York Post take it from here:

Now, if this were any corporation other than his own, what would he be doing?

• Ripping it for heartlessly failing to give its employees basic protection.
• Denouncing it for skipping town just as the fine was being levied.
• Condemning it for ducking the fine for nearly three years.

None of this surprises.

Franken’s aforementioned previous employer, Air America, bankrolled the liberal radio network’s weak launch in part with a $500,000 loan siphoned from funds meant for a Bronx charity serving kids and senior citizens.

For added fun, enkoy Franken’s classic and borderline blasphemous “Supply Side Jesus”cartoon. Just because.