A Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker had some shocking admissions — and an outpouring of emotion — during a recent State House hearing.
Rep. Kaohly Her, a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, spoke out during a recent hearing about the state’s potential move to pull back state subsidized funding for health insurance for adult illegal immigrants.
(Children would still be covered, according to the Minnesota Reformer.)
The dismayed Her, a proponent of this policy, tried to relay how personal this issue was for her due to her own family’s history of fleeing political persecution in Laos following the Vietnam War.
In sharing those family details, however, she may have shared too much, as her critics pounced on one very interesting tidbit about Her.
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