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Melanie Morgan, a longtime Bay Area conservative radio anchor, claimed Thursday that she was harassed with phone calls by Al Franken (D-Minn) in 2000, following a contentious debate on Bill Maher’s ABC late-night show “Politically Incorrect.”

Morgan, a former host on conservative talk station KSFO, made the allegations on Media Equalizer, a blog she co-founded. She said the harassment consisted of Franken aggressively trying to continue the argument off air and repeatedly calling her personal phone number to “badger” her.

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Her allegations came a few hours after news broke that Los Angeles radio personality Leeann Tweeden had accused Franken, the former “Saturday Night Live” comedian, of “forcibly” kissing her and groping her during a USO tour in 2006.

Morgan, also a former reporter and anchor for KGO-TV, KGO, and most recently for KSRO talk radio in Sonoma County, said her “disturbing” encounter with Franken was sparked by a seemingly mundane discussion on Maher’s ABC show on August 19, 2000.

The topic was OMB budget numbers. Morgan said she was joined on the panel by Franken, actor William Baldwin, and then-Colorado Lt. Governor Joe Rogers.

“I was invited and unaware of who his guests were going to be that night. I’ve since learned that though few know this, Al Franken was actually a writer for the show,” Morgan said.

She said that she made a statement about the budget numbers, and Franken challenged her.

“I challenged him back,” she said. “It was about spending priorities, actually just a mundane discussion. But he obsessed over it.”

Once the show wrapped, Morgan said Franken wouldn’t leave her alone and insisted on continuing the argument.

“He approached me backstage, angrily called me out on those numbers and insisted he would prove he was right,” she said. “He wouldn’t leave me alone, he kept following me. As a woman, his presence and proximity to me felt very threatening and intimidating.”

She said he later approached the show’s producer to get her phone number, “which was a clear violation of network protocol.” But Franken got the phone number and “shocked” her by calling her home at least three times.

“I became fearful and called (the producer) to complain and asked her to tell him to back off,” said Morgan, who was afraid he might begin stalking her home in Northern California.

“By the third phone call I was outraged and terrified, as he is really disturbed,” Morgan said.

She said he finally left her alone after she threatened to call the police and report him.

Tweeden’s allegations earlier Thursday came two days after a hearing where lawmakers acknowledged sexual harassment is a pervasive problem on Capitol Hill. At the time of Tweeden’s encounter with Franken, he was an Air America radio host. He was elected to the Senate two years later in 2008.

Franken initially issued a brief apology to Tweeden and said he didn’t recall the incident the way she did, but he later issued a longer apology: “There’s no excuse” he said, the Washington Post reported.

He welcomed a Senate Ethics Committee investigation, saying he would “gladly cooperate.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) said he hoped there soon would be an investigation the ethics committee, which has the authority to recommend expelling a senator.

“Sexual harassment is never acceptable and must not be tolerated,” Schumer said in a statement.

Morgan became head of the news department at Sonoma County’s KSRO in 2014, but decided to retire in December 2016 after 30 years of early morning broadcasts. Her husband is radio programmer and executive Jack Swanson of KCBS, according to a statement from KSRO.