Heavy lifting

Maybe I should take the comment in one of the earlier posts back. The Minnesota Senate today will consider naming the Honeycrisp apple as the official state fruit.

Seriously.

It's the branchild of Sen. Brian LeClair, who was persuaded by a 4th grade class' letter, apparently favoring the honor upon the apple (which, just for the record, is way too expensive).

11:16 Sen. Kiscaden: "Senator LeClair, honey, can you give us a crisp answer as to why this should be the state apple?"

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11:18 Sen. Warren Limmer: "Thank you for bringing up this core issue."

11:18; We have some no votes on SF 2302. Bachmann, Betzold, Chaudhary, Foley, Frederickson, Koering, Limmer, Marty, Pappas, Moua, Skoglund originally. Then, a bunch of sudden switches to make the final something like 53-4.

Great, we now have a state fruit.

After this lengthy work -- amost 10 minutes -- the Senate recessed.