Candidate for Minnesota House of Representatives - District 64A in 2025 Minnesota House Special Primary Election.
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Get StartedMaintain and strengthen Minnesota’s status as a reproductive freedom and trans-refuge state to ensure that the state doesn’t interfere with the personal and private doctor / patient relationship and that adults and children alike can live freely and authentically as themselves. Learn more
Protect Minnesota from being coerced into accepting any funding conditions that would require erasing Black, Brown, Indigenous, or queer people, by nullifying the harmful experiences in our past and present. Learn more
Invest in mental health focused on suicide prevention and combating extremism. Learn more
Long term, look at an even lower cost system for childcare services, like they have instituted in Quebec, where families don’t pay more than 10 per day for care, and after 15 years, the system more than pays for itself due to the increased economic activity from having so many more parents in the workforce. Learn more
Provide resources to cap child care expenses at 7% of a family’s income and raise wages for the workers, as outlined in the Great Start Plan. Learn more
Continue the Northstar Promise, which provides free college to students from families that earn less than 80,000. Learn more
Expand educational assistance for those who want to get technical or other industry-specific training that does not require a traditional 4-year degree. Learn more
Fully fund our public schools so that we can increase teacher pay, hire sufficient staff, and reduce class sizes so that teachers don’t have to do it all and students can grow, learn, and thrive. Learn more
As the federal government slashes investment in green energy, we need to replace it with investments in Minnesota in community geothermal (we can start here in St. Paul!), solar and wind, and in batteries that can store green energy. Learn more
Before permitting a copper-sulfide mine that could jeopardize Minnesota’s water, including the Boundary Waters, forever, we need independent proof that the proposal doesn’t cause pollution. That’s why I support the Prove it First legislation. Learn more
Strengthen transparency and conflict of interest disclosure at all levels of government, including requirements to reveal cryptocurrency holdings. Learn more
Expand the use of Ranked Choice Voting locally and adopt it for state and federal races. Learn more
Prevent voter-bribery schemes like Musk’s fake 1 million sweepstakes. Learn more
Banning weapons of war, large capacity magazines, binary triggers, and ghost guns. Learn more
Reverse the policy we were forced into accepting by the House GOP and restore undocumented adults’ access to MinnesotaCare. Learn more
Make providing home health care more attractive and allow seniors and people with disabilities to stay in their homes by raising wages for and providing a defined contribution retirement plan to public sector home health care workers. Learn more
Prevent insurance companies from requiring preauthorizations for treatment that a medical professional has recommended. Learn more
Access to affordable healthcare is a basic human right, no matter our zip code or the color of our skin. Learn more
Move to a single payer health plan, like the Minnesota Health Plan. Learn more
Long term, look at Washington State’s WA Care Fund as a model for Minnesota. It is a public long-term care insurance program funded by a .58% payroll deduction that then provides families with flexible resources to cover many long term care needs, including in-home, assisted living, and nursing home care. Learn more
Expand funding to the Family Homeless Prevention and Assistance Program to support keeping renters in their homes. Learn more
Remove barriers and incentivize building housing of all kinds, including transitional and supportive housing, deeply affordable housing, multi-generational housing, and housing in our urban centers and in Greater Minnesota: Yes to Homes! Learn more
Prohibit landlords from refusing to rent to individuals and families because they receive housing assistance. Learn more
Ensure that there is a complete separation between ICE and state and local law enforcement, and prohibit county sheriffs from contracting with ICE or using our local jails as ICE detention centers for our neighbors. Learn more
Overcome Citizens United by enacting state legislation to get corporations out of our politics by prohibiting them from spending in Minnesota elections. Learn more
Allow local governments to adopt land value taxes, which provide an incentive for the owners of vacant lots and buildings to develop the properties, instead of sitting on them. Learn more
Adopt Rep. Kaohly Her’s bill to raise taxes on the wealthiest and corporations by creating a 5th tier income tax bracket and increasing the corporate franchise tax. Learn more
Invest in enforcing our strong prevailing wage, worker safety, misclassification, and wage theft laws. Learn more
Strengthen our noncompete ban by also outlawing Training Repayment Agreement Provisions. Learn more
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