(ST. PAUL, MINN) – Democratic Speaker-designate Melissa Hortman says her Republican counterpart, Rep. Lisa Demuth, ‘refused to meet.’
““I was at the Capitol ready to negotiate at 9:00 AM, but Representative Demuth refused to meet with me,” she said. “I’ll be at the Capitol ready to negotiate at 9:00 AM tomorrow as well, and I hope she will join me.”
In a petition filed in the Minnesota Supreme Court, Reps. Lisa Demuth and Harry Niska are suing Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon saying, “Secretary of State Steve Simon has seized control of the House and exercised that control in a way that could prevent it from ever obtaining a quorum.”
Demuth and Niska are asking the state’s highest court to intervene in the situation, saying the intervention is ‘required to prevent an escalating separation-of-powers crisis and to restore a functioning Legislature.’
