Democratic-Farmer-Labor party

  

"Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, said in a statement on Saturday morning that he was briefed on the “ongoing situation” in the suburbs of 

 Champlin and Brooklyn Park, 

 both of which are in the Minneapolis metropolitan area."  

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"The DFL controls four of Minnesota's eight U.S. House seats, both of its U.S. Senate seats, the Minnesota Senate, and all other statewide offices, including the governorship, making it the dominant party in the state.  

Its main political rival is the Republican Party of Minnesota."

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The Guardian says:

The shootings took place at a time when political violence has become more commonplace in the US, though the vast majority of Americans do not support it,

However, if you support Trump, Maga, The GOP, Republican Party....you do support political violence, racial violence, violence against women, violence against the environment and Nature. Fascist violence .

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'The Champlin area was first settled when Father Louis Hennepin, a Franciscan priest from whom Hennepin County gets its name, Michael Accult, and Peter Dulay were captured by Lakota Indians. An Indian trading post was later established in the area. Charles Miles created the first permanent settlement in what came to be named Marshall Township. 

In 1859, it was split into two towns, Champlin and Dayton.

Champlin's name came from U.S. Navy Commodore Stephen Champlin.  

He was active in the war against England and Canada in 1812 and in the establishment of the Canadian–United States boundary. 

 He died in 1870 in Buffalo, New York. "

"On August 30, 1853, Stephen Champlin's daughter, Eliza Ellen Champlin, married John B. Cook, a partner of Minnesota's Alexander Ramsey. Cook never resided in Champlin, but he was involved in real estate transactions there and in its incorporation. In 1947, part of the former Champlin Township was incorporated to form the village of Champlin, and on January 2, 1971, as the result of a petitioned order from the Minnesota Municipal Commission, Champlin Township and the village of Champlin consolidated to form the city of Champlin." 

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"Two Minnesota lawmakers have been shot in their separate homes.

Local news stations identified the victims as state senator John Hoffman and state representative Melissa Hortman. Both are members of the  

Democratic-Farmer-Labor party. " 

Important members of the party have included Humphrey and Walter Mondale, 

 who each went on to be United States senators, vice presidents of the United States, and unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president;  

Eugene McCarthy, a U.S. senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 as an anti-Vietnam War candidate; 

 Paul Wellstone, a U.S. senator from 1991 to 2002 who became an icon of populist progressivism; 

Amy Klobuchar, a U.S. senator who ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020;

 Dean Phillips, a U.S. representative who ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2024;

 and Tim Walz, two-term governor chosen as Kamala Harris' running mate in the 2024 presidential election.[17]