Candidate for Minnesota State Senate - District 63 in 2022 Minnesota General Election.
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Get StartedThe criminal justice system, social services, and our health care system are inextricably tied together in multiple ways. Our mental health and addiction services are already the gold standard for the nation. Those systems are already under incredible strain — understaffed and hobbled by regulatory redundancy and interagency communications difficulties. We can do better, and this matrix is my number one priority. Learn more
Business and industry have been fleeing Minnesota for quite some time due to the increasingly hostile business climate in Minnesota. The pandemic has savaged the service industry. Learn more
Current state laws and regulations make it increasingly difficult for start-ups and entrepreneurs here. There is a limit on the demand for coding, social media influencing, the gig economy, (which I participate in myself and LOVE for the spirit it represents) and moving numbers from one database to another. We need to break down these artificial barriers to innovation, production, progress, and prosperity. Learn more
School choice, where the funding follows the student, fosters competition, encourages improvement and innovation, and ends the warehousing of our children into the outdated, ineffective, one-size-fits-all educational model of the last half century. I have yet to hear a cogent argument as to how more options, more schools, and more variety somehow damages education and doesn’t reduce class sizes. Learn more
Our public school system was failing students before the pandemic. The last two years have not been an improvement, but it did provide a real time example of how the standard model is not the only model. If funding were the issue, quality and results would have risen with expense over the decades, yet it has shown the exact opposite. Learn more
Minnesota needs an “all of the above” approach to energy. We all want clean energy. The reality is, though, that wind and solar are not, and will not be, ready for primetime anytime soon. The cost/benefit ratio in energy use to produce wind turbines and solar panels is skewed to the negative. Any serious discussion of energy policy must include lifting the prohibition of nuclear plant construction. Learn more
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