Left-wing billionaire financier George Soros is using his financial muscle at a Manhattan fund-raiser tonight to help Al Franken win a recount in Minnesota’s Senate election.
Soros – the hedge-fund honcho and sugar daddy of the Democratic Party – will host a soirée for Franken at his Carnegie Hill digs to help cover the candidate’s costs to monitor the statewide recount.
The special guest: Al Gore, who knows a thing or two about recounts.
At last count, Franken trails GOP incumbent Norm Coleman by just 216 votes out of 2.9 million cast. Minnesota yesterday initiated a hand recount that is not expected to be completed until mid-December.
Coleman – a Brooklyn native – dismissed Soros’ greenbacks for the Manhattan-born Franken.
“As we’ve said from Day One, this race will not be decided by New York billionaires or the US Senate. It will be decided by Minnesotans, and we are confident Sen. Coleman will prevail,” said his spokesman, Mark Drake.
“I’m cautiously optimistic,” Franken said. “We think all of the ballots will be counted, and we think we’ll prevail.”