Ritual of long hours, political divisions, take their toll at the State Capitol

Rep. Eric Lucero stood up to speak on the floor of the Minnesota House this week, his words vying for attention with his sea-foam green suit. Talking in graphic detail about sex, he unleashed a colorful lament against a DFL proposal to require comprehensive sex education in schools.

The Dayton Republican nearly topped that performance the next day: "We don't want the world to come to an end, do we?" he intoned during a two-day debate on an expansive jobs and energy bill. "I don't want the world to come to an end. Well, actually I do, eventually, but not for these causes."

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