Currently holds the office of Minnesota State Senate - District 8 until January 5, 2027.
Candidate for Minnesota State Senate - District 8 in 2026 Minnesota Primary Election.
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Get StartedChildren and the people who care for our children are not being valued. Childcare workers are not paid nearly enough for the work that they do. Childcare centers are closing because they can't make ends meet. It’s too expensive for families. We must invest in childcare the same way we invest in public education. When the rich don't pay their fair share, we pay the price for not having adequate childcare. Learn more
We must move away from using our tax dollars in an attempt to entice private developers to build affordable -- including low-income -- housing. Instead, we should be using our public dollars to directly fund housing that is truly affordable for middle and lower-income people. Great ideas and models such as tenant-run housing, cooperative housing, and rent-controlled housing, are all ready out there, paving the way to a future where we have housing for all. We do not have to reinvent the wheel. Rather, we can have our tax dollars start housing people, rather than going to profiteers. Learn more
When the rich do not pay their fair share, the costs are disproportionately shifted to the rest of us, most notably through increased property taxes. Many of us dread seeing our property tax bill every year. For those on fixed incomes, this ever-increasing burden is unreasonably harsh. We also must be careful stewards of our public funds. We can close the door to fraud by taking back our public goods, starting with our public health care systems, MinnesotaCare and Medicaid. We shouldn’t have to fight insurance companies to receive the care we need, and we shouldn’t be using public dollars to enrich outrageously high-paid insurance executives and their investors. It’s time we finally get it right, take back our public goods, and start treating healthcare like the human right that it is. Learn more
The richest 1% of Minnesotans now own nearly a third of all the wealth in our state. This level of outrageous wealth inequality is not normal, and it should not be acceptable to any of us. Meanwhile, many Minnesotans are faced with housing insecurity, and unaffordable childcare and health insurance. Too often we are told that we don’t have the money to meet these needs. That’s not true. We live in a wealthy state, in the wealthiest nation to ever exist on the planet. The problem is our extreme wealth inequality. I am working to increase taxes on the rich. Last year I introduced S.F. 2290, and in the bill’s hearing we showed that simply by taxing the top 2% of earners in Minnesota just 2.6% more, we would raise over a billion dollars each year to go toward the public goods we desperately need. Learn more
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