Senate’s Pogemiller won’t seek minority leadership post

He's been the Minnesota Senate's majority leader the past four years, but state Sen. Larry Pogemiller of Minneapolis says he won't seek to lead DFL-ers as minority leader in the next legislative session.

"No matter how committed we were or hard we all worked, in the end it didn't matter, the result is the result," Pogemiller said in a prepared statement. "We were not able to bring an exemplary group of legislators across the finish line.

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