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Melissa Hortman's rise was notable for steady progression up the ranks built in large part on an ability to forge ...
But there was a caring, apolitical gracefulness as well to Hortman, colleagues said. Garofalo said that in the days after the ...
Hortman, who was fatally shot early Saturday, was known as a champion of deeply progressive causes but also someone willing ...
Rep. Hortman, who served a six-year stint as House Speaker, was a longtime leader of the DFL caucus and one of Minnesota's most influential politicians.
Among Representative Melissa Hortman’s final votes in the Minnesota legislature was one she agonized over. Lawmakers in the evenly split chamber had been in a bitter standoff over a Republican ...
Hortman led House Democrats through some of the most difficult and consequential political times in recent Minnesota history.
SAINT PAUL, Minn. — In the fall of 1998, a young attorney named Melissa Hortman made her first run for public office.
Lawmakers and officials, both local and national, are issuing statements expressing shock and outrage over the shooting deaths​ of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman​ and her husband.
Mark Hortman was shot and killed on June 14 alongside his wife, former House Speaker Melissa Hortman, in the family's Brooklyn Park, MN, home, according to Minnesota's governor.
Minnesota lawmakers Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman were shot along with their partners on Saturday (June 14). Authorities ...
The political assassination yesterday of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman was a shock to the people of the state and the country.
Their reason was to push back, they said, on violence and hate in light of the assassination of former speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband.