posted June 17, 2025 06:35 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
It was a Dem. You fell for a hoax.

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posted June 17, 2025 07:48 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
You don’t deserve an answer from me.

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posted June 17, 2025 07:55 PM            

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Originally posted by Belage2:
What's the update? I have not been following this...

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He’s a Republican. He loves Donald Trump. His best friend said that he would be offended if you called him a democrat.

posted June 17, 2025 07:59 PM            

Extensive planning and a list of names: Takeaways from the federal complaint against Vance Boelter
http://www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/us/vance-boelter-minnesota-suspect-complaint-takeaways

Acting U.S. Attorney details case against Vance Boelter
http://www.kare11.com/video/news/local/acting-us-attorney-details-case-against-vance-boelter/89-6e53d778-2b80-4ba2-a017-c03e9abeac0b

Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative
http://apnews.com/article/minnesota-shootings-lawmakers-suspect-21b2165404bc66f77dd5e0e36efeb065

Catching Minnesota assassination suspect: How a hunch and a mistake led to his arrest
http://abcnews.go.com/US/catching-minnesota-assassination-suspect-hunch-mistake-led-arrest/story?id=122888636

posted June 18, 2025 09:35 AM            

“Oh, but”. You were waiting for nobody me to denounce the murder of two strangers, by someone who was pro-Palestine. It doesn’t matter how much I say I’m against violence, you expected me and whoever else here has spoken out about genocide, to say something, when you usually say that we are dumb/ignorant, that we don’t know what we are talking about. Or that we are evil, and you imply **** about us that isn’t true. All for stupid political reasons. It doesn’t matter what we say.

posted June 22, 2025 04:33 PM            

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Originally posted by Belage2:
Whoever shot these lawmakers deserves to have the full force of the law falling on them, I don't care about their affiliation.

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And Randall even said he should get the death penalty:

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Completely agree. Seek the death penalty if allowed. He's apparently after pro-abortion people.
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posted June 28, 2025 09:51 PM            

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris attend funeral of slain Minnesota lawmaker

posted June 28, 2025 09:51 PM            

The former president and vice-president were joined by more than 1,000 other mourners.

Hortman was shot to death during a pair of attacks two weeks earlier by a man posing as a police officer. Minnesota’s chief federal prosecutor has called the killing an assassination. The shootings also left her husband, Mark, dead and a state senator and his wife seriously wounded.

“Melissa Hortman will be remembered as the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history. I get to remember her as a close friend, a mentor and the most talented legislator I have ever known,” Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, said in his eulogy.

Walz, who was Harris’s running mate in the 2024 White House election won by Donald Trump, added: “For seven years, I have had the privilege of signing her agenda into law. I know millions of Minnesotans get to live their lives better because she and Mark chose public service and politics.”

Neither Biden nor Harris spoke, but they sat in the front row with Walz. Biden was also one of more than 7,500 people who paid their respects on Friday as Hortman, her husband and their golden retriever, Gilbert, lay in state in the Minnesota capitol rotunda in St Paul. Gilbert was seriously wounded in the attack and had to be euthanized. Biden also visited the wounded senator in a hospital.

Dozens of current and former state legislators from both parties and other elected officials who worked with Hortman also attended.

As House speaker, Hortman helped pass an expansive agenda of liberal initiatives such as free lunches for public school students along with strengthened protections for abortion and trans rights during a momentous 2023 legislative session. With the House split 67-67 between Democrats and Republicans this year, she yielded the gavel to a Republican under a power-sharing deal, took the title speaker emerita and helped break a budget impasse that threatened to shut down state government.

Walz said Hortman – who was first elected in 2004 – saw her mission as “to get as much good done for as many people as possible”. And he said her focus on people was what made her so effective.

“She certainly knew how to get her way – no doubt about that,” Walz said. “But she never made anyone feel that they’d gotten rolled at a negotiating table. That wasn’t part of it for her, or a part of who she was. She didn’t need somebody else to lose to win for her.”

The governor said the best way to honor the Hortmans would be by following their example.

“Maybe it is this moment where each of us can examine the way we work together, the way we talk about each other, the way we fight for things we care about,” Walz said. “A moment when each of us can recommit to engaging in politics and life the way Mark and Melissa did – fiercely, enthusiastically, heartily, but without ever losing sight of our common humanity.”

A private burial for the Hortmans will be held at a later date.

The Hortmans were proud of their adult children, Sophie and Colin Hortman, and the lawmaker often spoke of them.

In a voice choked with emotion, Colin said his parents embodied the “Golden Rule”, and he read the prayer of St Francis, which his mother always kept in her wallet. He said it captures her essence. It starts: “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.”

After the service, Walz presented the children with US and Minnesota flags that flew over the state capitol on the day their parents were killed.

The man accused of killing the Hortmans at their home in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Park on 14 June, and wounding Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, at their home in nearby Champlin, surrendered near his home the night of 15 June.