While construction continues on the Minnesota State Office Building, online, a movement is growing to rename the building after the late Rep. Melissa Hortman .

The grassroots online petition has picked up more than 500 signatures as of Wednesday evening.

Hortman spent two decades serving in the legislature, bringing grace to gridlock at the Capitol.

Jodi Anderson-Wolhaupter and her husband, John Wolhaupter, say Hortman always listened to the educators over the years about education funding.

"She had that way of knowing her constituents' issues and really represented us well," Wolhaupter said.

The Wolhaupters say it will remind Minnesotans to be generous neighbors and always search for the humanity in others, like Hortman did.

"We really see this renaming effort as a way to bring

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