After weeks of bad news for Al Franken, even other state Republican Parties are getting into the act. Franken, who earlier this year agreed to a $25,000 fine for failing to cover workers' compensation insurance for his employees, has also been stung in recent days by an acknowledgment that he owes up to $70,000 in back taxes in several states in which he performed.

In a letter to the South Carolina Department of Revenue, Palmetto State GOP chairman Katon Dawson last week asked director Ray Stevens to make sure their state received full payment from Franken's company, Alan Franken Inc., which received payment for services there.

"South Carolina faces an uncertain economic environment," Dawson wrote. "It is incumbent upon us to ensure that every individual and corporation lives up to its obligations to report its income, and pay its fair share of taxes." In the letter, Dawson requests a full review of the company's activities in South Carolina since its inception in 1991.

"I don't think people are going to believe Al Franken's good enough or smart enough to be a U.S. Senator because, doggone it, he doesn't pay his taxes," Dawson told Politics Nation. "But I have a punch line for the Democrats' star comedian-turned-candidate: show some personal responsibility and pay your fair share."

Franken last week said the blunder came when his company's accountant overpaid taxes in New York and Minnesota, where the comedian and satirist has lived, instead of paying taxes to the states in which Franken performed and was paid. Still, if even other Republican Party chairmen are having fun with Franken's lax accountant, one can bet the Minnesota Republican Party won't let the issue go so easily.