Protesters, including one who held a sign referencing the Ku Klux Klan, disrupted a speech by Minnesota House Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Lisa Demuth at a Republican dinner in Eagan on Friday evening.
Demuth was at the podium at the Omni Hotel during the Minnesota GOP’s annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner when the protesters entered the room. The Klan is a white supremacist group.
Demuth is the first Black woman to be speaker in the state House, and the first Black person to be a party nominee for governor in the state…