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The late Rep. Melissa Hortman was known to Danny and Mary Lundell as a master of bipartisan collaboration and a champion for rural Minnesotans
Tuesday, June 17, at 4:30 p.m. CT, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith will deliver remarks on the Senate floor honoring the life and legacy of Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) spokesperson responded to President Trump’s refusal to call him following the shooting of two Minnesota state lawmakers. “Governor Walz wishes that President Trump would be a President for all Americans,
He wounded Sen. John Hoffman and his wife but didn’t come into contact with the two other DFL legislators, investigators say.
Gov. Tim Walz called the event a “politically motivated assassination," with the attack marking the latest such incident over the last several years.
Just hours after House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed and state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife were wounded, top MAGA voices used those revelations to inaccurately paint Boelter as a Democrat.
Early Saturday morning, when a man dressed like a police officer knocked at the home of a Minnesota state legislator, marked the start of nearly 40 hours of violence and fear that swept through towns in an arc around Minneapolis.
In her last interview with the Pioneer Press, just days before she and her husband were fatally shot, state Rep. Melissa Hortman said that above all this summer she was looking forward to spending