Minn. Senator Proposes Making State Color Purple
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A state senator in Minnesota is pushing to make the official state color purple in honor of music superstar Prince.
Sen. Karin Housley tells the St. Paul Pioneer Press that she plans to introduce a bill Monday hoping to make the color Minnesota's.
Housley says she's a huge Prince fan and that seeing the world lit up in purple makes her proud. She says Prince was special and "he was ours."
Housley never met the musician but says she and former NHL hockey player Phil Housley, her fiance at the time, once waited for three hours outside of the Minneapolis club First Avenue. They wanted to catch a glimpse of Prince after a show.
She says Prince gave the couple a nod and that she was "in heaven" for the rest of her life.
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