Joe Biden and Kamala Harris attend funeral of slain Minnesota lawmaker | Minnesota
Melissa Hortman, the President of the State Assembly of the Democratic Minnesota, was honored for legislative achievements and humanity at a funeral ceremony attended by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Saturday.
Former President and Vice President, more than 1,000 people attended.
Hortman was shot and killed by a man posing as a police officer two weeks ago during a pair of attacks. Minnesota’s chief federal prosecutor described killing as assassination. Filming was also seriously injured in her husband Mark, Dead and a state senator and wife.
“Melissa Hortman will be remembered as the most resulting speaker in the history of Melissa Hortman Minnesota.
Walz, who was running Harris in the 2024 White House elections won by Donald Trump, said, ım I had the privilege of signing the agenda of the agenda for seven years.
Neither Biden nor Harris spoke, but they sat down with Walz. Biden was also lying in the state on Friday at the Minnesota Capitol Rotunda in St Paul, St Paul, Hortman, her husband and gold hunter Gilbert. Gilbert was seriously injured in the attack and euthanasia had to be done. Biden also visited the injured senator in a hospital.
Duzines and former state legislators participated in both the parties and other elected authorities working with Hortman.
As the Speaker of the Assembly, Hortman helped to strengthen strengthened guards for abortion and trans rights during an important 2023 legislative session, as well as a wide agenda of liberal initiatives such as free lunch for public school students. This year, the democrats and republicans between the 67-67 parliamentary division with a power sharing agreement under the agreement, the title speaker received Emerita, and helped to break a budget dilemma that threatens to close the state government.
Walz said that Hortman, who was firstly elected in 2004, as ı good to do as much as possible for people ”. And he said it was something that makes him so effective.
“He certainly knew how to travel – said Walz – no doubt,” Walz said. “But he didn’t make anyone feel rolling on a negotiating table. It was not a part of him or who was part of him. He didn’t need anyone else to lose to win.”
Governor, Hortmans will be following examples of the best way to honor, he said.
“Perhaps each of us works together, the way we talk about each other, the way we fight for what we care about,” Walz said. “As Mark and Melissa do, we can propose to participate in politics and life – with severe, enthusiasm, heartfelt, but without overlooking our common humanity.”
A special grave for Hortans will be made on a later date.
The hortmans were proud of adult children Sophie and Colin Hortman, and the MP often mentioned them.
In a voice drowned with emotion, Colin said that his family had concretized the “Golden Rule ve and read the prayer of St Francis, whom his mother always held in his wallet. He said he caught his essence. It begins: “God, make me a instrument of your peace.”
After the service, Walz presented the children with the flags of flying minnesota over the state capital the day of their parents were killed.
On June 14, Brooklyn Park’s Minneapolis suburb, accused of killing Hortans in their homes and surrendered to the nearby homes in the nearby Champlin house, near Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yette.
57 -year -old Vance Boelter from Green Isle is sentenced to imprisonment and did not object to the accusations that could carry the federal death penalty.
