Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) dined with former state Rep. Melissa Hortman just hours before she was shot and killed over the weekend.
The Democrat senator was having dinner at an event with Hortman in her home state.
According to POLITICO, Gov. Tim Walz informed Klobuchar of Hortman’s death around 5 a.m. Saturday.
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“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar said, according to POLITICO.
“I was there when she was doorknocking in the beginning,” she added.
Klobuchar had dinner with Minnesota pol hours before she was murdered Saturday https://t.co/d8MhVZkaJB pic.twitter.com/cq0jc0mf00
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POLITICO reports:
Hortman, 55, and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed in their Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, home early Saturday, in what authorities are
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