MN House: Zack Stephenson in 36A

This is an open seat, in a north metro district that includes Champlin and parts of Coon Rapids. From Stephenson's website:

We need to invest in our infrastructure: roads, bridges, water systems, airports, and mass transit.   Improving infrastructure will help our existing businesses to grow and expand and will create good paying jobs in the construction industries.

In addition to creating new jobs, we can improve our economy by improving the jobs we already have.  Zack supports a guarantee of paid family leave for every Minnesotan who works full time.  No one should lose a job because they have to take care of a new baby or a sick parent.   Zack also supports raising the minimum wage to make sure that every working family does not live in poverty.

The Republican is Bill Maresh, who teaches and coaches wrestling at Champlin Park High School. Nothing wrong with that, at all, and in fact he seems to be counting on the coaching thing to resonate with voters as his #1 qualification for election. His website does have an issues page, but it doesn’t have much content other than extolling “free markets” as the solutions to all our problems. We’ve all had 40+ years now to see about how well that’s worked out.