Healthcare, labor, and the environment. I have a lot of priorities, but they all lead back to those three. When our communities have healthcare that doesn't break the bank and labor that's dignified, they're finally able to address their other needs. And the rollbacks to environmental regulations happening right now will undoubtedly fall on future generations, undoing progress it took decades to win. People take for granted that our lakes and rivers don't catch fire and that we can breathe clean air. A few decades ago we saw the need for change and made it. My job is to make sure the generations after us inherit the same.
We need to give people their bread and roses. Part of that is backing local small businesses over the big-box stores that pull money out of our towns, because a dollar spent locally gets reinvested right here. The rest is helping people keep what they earn: a living wage for everyone, and an end to the medical debt that drains households dry. Money that isn't lost to a far-off chain or a hospital bill is money families can put back into the community.
Start with the disparities built into the systems: fund the student-support staff and mental health services that keep kids in school, raise Medical Assistance rates so providers can serve underserved communities, and treat tribal sovereignty and treaty rights as binding, not optional. As a member of the Red Lake Nation, I'll push for real consultation with Indigenous communities before decisions that affect them, not after.
Yes. Equal rights shouldn't rise and fall with the political winds. Putting it in the constitution lets the people settle it, not a temporary majority, and equality under the law is the foundation you build everything else on. Minnesotans deserve the chance to vote on it directly.
I'd ban copper-nickel sulfide mining in the Boundary Waters watershed; the risk to water you can't undo isn't worth it. I'd require full-cost accounting so polluters, not taxpayers, carry the cleanup, strengthen protections for wild rice waters, and back farmers in conservation and clean energy that keeps lease income at home. Water is a commonwealth we all share and all owe something to.
Safety comes from meeting needs before they become emergencies. I'd invest in mental health, addiction treatment, and EMS so the first response isn't always a squad car, fund de-escalation and real accountability for law enforcement including body cameras, and treat firearms with common-sense training and screening while respecting responsible owners' rights. Prevention keeps people safer than punishment alone.
I don't take corporate PAC or super PAC money, and I'd back a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, corporations aren't people and money isn't speech. Short of that: full, fast disclosure of every dollar, closing dark-money loopholes, and strengthening small-donor and public-financing programs so candidates answer to voters, not donors. I've already signed the Move to Amend pledge.
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