Kelliher steps up before delegates

Majority leader rips into Pawlenty, talks up her budgeting bonafides and recalls her roots as a farm girl

April 24, 2010 at 5:48PM

Margaret Anderson Kelliher, who represents part of Minneapolis, reminded the delegates of her southern Minnesota farm roots, talking about her brothers "preparing for another planting season."

She talked about Gov. Tim Pawlenty's "right wing ideology" and said she organized the override of Pawlenty's veto of a transportation bill. She also described "hammering out a budget" at the Capitol. Kelliher offered up fewer major applause lines than for the speeches delivered by Rybak and Rukavina.

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