Picture 17In the pre-Google era, Al Franken had a stint for the Duluth Convention and Visitors Bureau as the “Duluth Answer Man,” a font of knowledge about Minnesota’s fourth-largest city. In a new video, via Perfect Duluth Day, Sen. Franken enlists the character to help build the case that Google Fiber should come to the Twin Ports.

In one clip from Duluth Answer Man, Franken fields a question from a man wondering about the safety of the city’s running of the bulls. “I believe you’re thinking of Pamplona, Spain, However the smelt run every spring in Duluth,” says a nasally Franken.

The Franken of today says that internet technology means his services in that regard are no longer required.

“Fortunately Google emerged, freeing me from my responsibilities and allowing me to serve in the United States Senate,” he said.

The video concludes with Franken sharing the URL for the Twin Ports Fiber Initiative, which aims to “”win the Google Fiber project by showing Google the community’s passion for fiber – high speed Internet, video and voice – the highly skilled workforce in our communities, the strong, supportive entrepreneurial environment, and the community’s visionary leadership.”