The race for Rep. Melissa Hortman’s former House seat begins

The race for Rep. Melissa Hortman’s former House seat begins • Minnesota Reformer

'I Voted' stickers at a polling place in Apple Valley. Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer.As the deadline to file for candidacy passed Tuesday afternoon, three Democrats and one Republican sought the mantle of representing the district long served by the late Rep. Melissa Hortman.  Gov. Tim Walz called a special election following the death of Hortman and her husband, Mark, last month in what has been termed a political assassination.  The…

The race for Rep. Melissa Hortman’s former House seat begins

As the deadline to file for candidacy passed Tuesday afternoon, three Democrats and one Republican sought the mantle of representing the district long served by the late Rep. Melissa Hortman. Gov. Tim Walz called a special election following the death…