In order to promote a Healthy Minnesota, I will work hard to do the one thing so many people across the district have asked me to tackle. At your door, healthcare was the topic discussed the most. I believe that this election is a referendum on a "do nothing" Legislature that contributed millions in taxpayer money to insurance companies, but did little to address cost and coverage options across Minnesota. Leadership couldn't even pass an AARP backed plan to tackle elder abuse or pass a "one penny per pill" fee to drug companies to reduce prescriptions and help pay for abuse counseling.The Republican is Kim Spears. His website has an issues page, and there are sentences there, but most of them are utterly vague and non- (even anti-) specific. Rhetorical questions: Why would a candidate refuse to define his policy goals? Why wouldn't that raise red flags for informed, thinking voters?
Thursday, October 4, 2018
MN House: Jeff Brand in 19A
This district is southwest of the Metro. The DFL candidate, Jeff Brand, has been on the city council in Saint Peter. From his website:
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It's a contest between two former City Council members.
ReplyDeleteJeff Brand from St. Peter who has a strong pro-environment record versus Kim Spears who served on North Mankato's City Council from 2012-2016.
Spears only victory was in a six-candidate field in which the top two candidates were elected to the council ... he came in second with 25% of the vote. He has ran unsuccessfully for the seat twice before. He probably doesn't need to have much information on his website because his voters know him ... as I recall Spears was against things like sidewalks and funding city parks (funny thing is that North Mankato's Caswell Park has hosted U.S. Youth Soccer Minnesota State Cup, the North American Fastpitch Association World Series, MSHSL championships, etc ... drawing over 60,000 people to these events ... but he was concerned about future maintenance costs of the facilities.)
The district has been held by the DFL but with Jim Hagedorn on the ticket, expect another close contest.