Assassinated Dem lawmaker Melissa Hortman sided with Republicans before Minnesota shooting, voted to revoke...
Hortman was the sole member of her party to vote with Republicans in favor of eliminating taxpayer-funded health insurance for undocumented immigrants in this year's budget plan, NY POST reported.
She and her husband were shot dead on Saturday in Brooklyn Park, outside of Minneapolis, just after the suspect shot at Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, critically injuring them.
Authorities are searching for Vance Luther Boetler, 57, a political appointee of Governor Tim Walz, who is suspected of leaving behind a deranged "manifesto" that lists the names of 70 people, including Walz.
Days earlier, on June 10, Hortman voted in favor of a state budget plan that denied illegal immigrants over the age of 18 access to MinnesotaCare benefits.
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