Caroline Cummings
@carorcummings.bsky.social
Adopted daughter of the Midwest reporting for WCCO/CBS News Minnesota, covering politics + government. Iowa in a past life. DC born. Proud University of Maryland grad. Breakfast food fanatic. 🍳
Statement from Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat who was shot several times in June in an attempted assassination:
"The assassination of Charlie Kirk today is only the latest act that our country cannot continue to accept."
#mnleg
"The assassination of Charlie Kirk today is only the latest act that our country cannot continue to accept."
#mnleg
September 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Statement from Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman, a Democrat who was shot several times in June in an attempted assassination:
"The assassination of Charlie Kirk today is only the latest act that our country cannot continue to accept."
#mnleg
"The assassination of Charlie Kirk today is only the latest act that our country cannot continue to accept."
#mnleg
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
BREAKING: Political activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at a Utah campus event, the president says. He was 31. https://cnn.it/46gFG4u
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
BREAKING: Political activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk has died after being shot at a Utah campus event, the president says. He was 31. https://cnn.it/46gFG4u
Covering the Minnesota Legislature has been such a privilege these last five sessions. A relationship between a journalist and an elected official is a professional one, not a friendship. We have to ask tough questions.
But that doesn’t mean we aren’t human. And Melissa Hortman was a good one.
But that doesn’t mean we aren’t human. And Melissa Hortman was a good one.
June 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Covering the Minnesota Legislature has been such a privilege these last five sessions. A relationship between a journalist and an elected official is a professional one, not a friendship. We have to ask tough questions.
But that doesn’t mean we aren’t human. And Melissa Hortman was a good one.
But that doesn’t mean we aren’t human. And Melissa Hortman was a good one.
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.
“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed
The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.
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June 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.
“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.
“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.