(28 Jun 2025)
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Minneapolis – 28 June 2025
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1. Wide of mourners gathered at Minneapolis church for Melissa and Mark Hortman’s funeral
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gov. Tim Walz, (D) Minnesota: ++STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 TO 12++
"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. 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. Her mission was to get as much good done for as many people as possible. It was the focus on people that made Melissa Hortman so effective. She certainly knew how to get her way, no doubt about that. But she never made anyone feel that they’ve gotten rolled at a negotiating table. That wasn’t part of it for her or part of who she was. She didn’t need somebody else to lose to win for her. I know that in these times of this inexplicable, unexplainable tragedy, all of us are searching for some kind of meaning, some kind a lesson that we can learn to help ease our loss. And 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 fight for things we care about, a moment when each of 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."
3. Mid of mourners gathered around casket
4. Wide of clergy processing into church during funeral
5. Mid of mourners standing beside casket and bowing during funeral
6. Mid of former President Joe Biden, Former Vice President Kamala Harris, Walz and other attendees standing solemnly at the funeral service
7. Wide of mourners gathered at Minneapolis church
8. Wide of attendees during funeral
9. Wide of honor guard carrying casket down steps
10. Wide of honor guard carrying casket towards hearse
11. Mid of mourners and officers gathering at funeral as Walz meets Hortman’s children
12. Wide of mourners and uniformed officers gathered
STORYLINE:
Democratic former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman was honored for her legislative accomplishments and her humanity during a funeral Saturday where former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined the over 1,000 mourners.
Hortman was fatally shot two weeks earlier in an attack that Minnesota’s chief federal prosecutor has called an assassination.
It and another shooting 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,” Gov. Tim Walz said in his eulogy.
”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 the governor, who was Harris’ running mate in 2024.
Biden was also one of more than 7,500 people who paid their respects Friday as Hortman, her husband, Mark, 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.
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