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Where DFL caucus leaders reluctantly negotiated a deal, their colleagues felt left behind. After a four-hour debate in the House, Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman (DFL - Brooklyn Park) cast the sole DFL vote, allowing the bill to pass. “I know that people will be hurt by that vote,” said Hortman through tears, “and we worked very hard to get a budget deal that didn’t include that provision.”
The House DFL leader was visibly distressed with the vote she cast, one that separated her from her colleagues in the House.
“We are tremendously disappointed in and gut-wrenched at this decision,” said Rep. Liish Kozlowski (DFL-Duluth) before the House gaveled in, “at this compromise that compromises our communities that are most vulnerable.”
Hortman says she voted for the provision solely to uphold the deal. “I did what leaders do, I stepped up and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota,” she said.
Still, she understood the frustrations voiced by her fellow caucus members.
“They’re right to be mad at me,” she said, “I think some of them are pretty, pretty angry. I think that their job was to make folks who voted for that bill feel like crap, and I think that they succeeded.”
Over in the Senate, a similar situation unfolded.
Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy was also forced to vote for a bill she disagreed with to uphold the integrity of their compromise.
“This one hurt. This one is a wound because of its reason,” she said, “my colleagues across the aisle set this as their number one priority.”
Unlike in the House, Murphy wasn’t the only DFLer to vote for the bill. She was joined by Senators Ann Rest (DFL - New Hope), Rob Kupec (DFL - Moorehead), and Grant Hauschild (DFL - Hermantown).
Asked whether the move would drive a wedge between her and her caucus, her DFL colleague, Senator John Marty, quickly stepped to her defense.
“As a member of the caucus, she clearly was fighting against that every step of the way in negotiations,” said Marty, who was part of the budget discussions, “If we wanted a budget, we had to agree to that. She agreed to put one vote for us because of that.”
The bill now heads to the governor, who has indicated he will not veto it.

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