State Sen. Ann Rest announces retirement after 40 years in office

After serving 40 years in the Minnesota Legislature, DFL state Sen. Ann Rest announced Tuesday that she will retire when her current term ends in 2026.

Rest arrived at the State Capitol in 1984 when she was elected to the Minnesota House, winning her seat by just 56 votes, according to the Minnesota Historical Election Archive.

Rest was elected seven more times to the House before she switched to the Senate in 2000. She is in her eighth term, which will be her last.

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Rest, who has represented the cities of Golden Valley, Crystal, Robbinsdale, Plymouth and her hometown of New Hope, said her decision was unrelated to the killing of colleague Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in their Brooklyn Park home in June.

Vance Boelter, who is charged in the shootings, also is believed to have stopped by Rest’s street the same night but drove away when a New Hope officer confronted him.

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