Candidate for Minnesota State Senate - District 5 in 2026 Minnesota Primary Election.
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Get StartedSpecial education cross-subsidy to 100 percent. State coverage went from 6.43% in FY23 to 50% in FY27. Progress. But districts are still spending general ed dollars on federally mandated services. Cover it fully and free that money for classrooms. Learn more
Grow-your-own rural teacher pipeline. Mississippi raised teacher pay 12% and saw enrollment in education programs jump 20%. Fund tuition, fund a stipend, require five years in a shortage district. Recruit from the communities the teachers will serve. Learn more
Put the money back in the general fund. Every patch is a cut somewhere else. Fund schools the way we did when Minnesota was leading. Learn more
Restore the 10M AIS floor before the 2027 cut hits. Statute 477A.19 already schedules the drop. A new senator has to be ready for that budget fight on day one. Learn more
Remove the exemptions from Minnesota’s right-to-repair law. The Digital Fair Repair Act already works for electronics and appliances. Expand it to cover farm equipment, motor vehicles, and game consoles. Iowa passed their ag repair bill out of committee 18-5 in February. EPA ruled manufacturers can’t block repair access. If you bought it, you should be able to fix it. Learn more
Weight AIS aid by lake density and boat traffic. Counties managing hundreds of public accesses should not split funding evenly with counties that have none. Learn more
Get rural water systems the federal PFAS money. The EPA PFAS OUT initiative and the 2 billion IIJA program exist. Wisconsin just unlocked 125 million in stalled PFAS investment. Minnesota’s small rural systems need help with the applications, not just announcements that the money is available. Learn more
Scale Farm Down Payment Assistance to 10 million a year. Prioritize family land transfers over corporate acquisitions. Sharpen Statute 500.24 so communities know who is buying land in their township before the closing, not after. Learn more
State emergency fund for trade-impacted farmers. When federal trade policy creates per-acre losses, the state can’t wait for Washington. Learn more
Write EMS funding into statute. West Virginia just did it. HB 5168, first permanent statewide EMS funding stream in the country. Hauschild got Minnesota to 18 million a year. Put that in a formula that doesn’t expire every budget cycle. Learn more
Get the Rural Health Transformation money into this district. Minnesota is receiving roughly 200 million a year for five years from the federal program. Hospitals and EMS agencies in SD-5 need to see that money, not watch it concentrate in the metro. Learn more
Build a state Medicaid buffer before January 2027. The work requirements and the ten-year drawdown are on the calendar. A contingency fund has to be standing before they hit, not debated after. Learn more
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