Republicans are set to begin the year with at least a temporary majority in the Minnesota House after a newly elected Democrat resigned over his failure to meet the state’s residency requirements.
Democratic candidate Curtis Johnson told Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in a Dec. 27 letter that he has decided not to hold out for a potentially positive decision in his appeal of a ruling by a Ramsey County district judge, who found last week that Johnson had failed to meet residency requirements and is ineligible to serve in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
