I'm running for reelection to continue providing leadership and experience that delivers results for you.

I'm running for the Minnesota house because I believe my district deserves better leadership leadership that will Leverage The Power of good government to improve the lives of all motans.

For me having a servant heart uh being a former Burnsville police officer for 27 years um where I served as a school resource officer um and also a crisis negotiator on our SWAT team that servant leadership was still in my heart and it gave me an opportunity to serve my community and my neighbors.

I'm committing to committed to working collaboratively as I've done throughout my career from these common values we want to identify problems work across the aisles and take steps to address them.

So I'm all for for efficiency but we have to be careful not to sacrifice Environmental Protections for shortterm financial gain.

As science has proven I think the state should be working uh with businesses not against them and there's a lot of uh mandates that go on our businesses that make it uh difficult them for them to be successful in run their business.

They say that we do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors but that we borrow it from our children and because of that we need to be take a very conservative approach when we're looking at permitting to make sure that we are able to enjoy the great bounties of the state for for generations to come.

The permitting process doesn't need to be modernized and less drawn out Minnesota does have a reputation of being hostile to business growth and expansion thanks to our outdated but overly burdensome process.

We got to listen we got to learn and we got to understand the issues so we can lead with some purpose and focus.

The key is to get out and talk to the people that are most affected by um by the issues that are at the table.

I think the community especially the business Community knows that they can reach out uh to me and share their concerns because I get a lot of emails and phone calls.

As a career science teacher I know how to listen and gather data and analyze it and draw conclusions and that is something you need to do as a representative.

When there are things that we want as a benefit to be available to everyone uh in the state or in the country we have seen unfortunately that the free market system is not effective in doing that and we need to in to take on public programs in order to provide those benefits to be Universal.

I think that the state should only be setting the floor for employment issues we have seen unbalance and extreme mandates that are crippling family-owned businesses and small businesses and those businesses are the engine of our economy.

But I could also see that there would be situations as John mentioned where you have a business with five employees where a one siiz all condition might not not fit so when I'm in office what I would do is look at the data and see if this is a a situation where maybe there needs to be an extension or an exemption or something that would help that s small business survive...

I disagree with the the need for these uh mandates and one of the things that was just uh brought up about um being up at the uh capital and voting for some of these when there was one party control there wasn't the need for discussion and a lot of things went in...

This shows exactly why motans desperately need balance in the Minnesota Legislature in a more transparent process we're ready to lead on good governance to provide better education Transportation support our law enforcement but also importantly reign in the Democrats spending spree...

I support a thre pronged approach my dad was Depression era he had lived through that in the wars and always saved money for a rainy day right half of his salary so I think we need to save money for times when our economy is having a downturn because it very well could happen for another pandemic or other re reasons.

I I believe in a tax release and cuts um to relieve some of the pressures off our families in businesses as John said there's a$ 730 billion dollar or a million doll Palace for politicians being built right outside my window.

We need to do the same thing at the state level I think as as John has said we do not have a structural Surplus uh in our state budget so we shouldn't I'm not going to advocate for long-term plan uh spending that we need to go year-over-year so the first thing at the state is again let's make sure we have our rainy day fund filled up if we have money left over then we should take on one-time projects.

Medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States and you know we pay more for health care in this country than pretty much any other industrialized country and we have worse uh mortality and lower lower life expectancy so we're not getting what we need for our money with the current system.

Our Health Care system is broken and there's we have to figure out ways to do it uh different we focus too much on the process.

So Access to Health Care is a right that everybody should enjoy regardless of their income or employment status and in the long term there V has described I do believe that we should get to a single-payer system here in the United States.

As far as a public option I would vote no um it would establishing it would cost about a half a billion dollars even Governor waltz's own Commerce Department sent a letter to the legislature that said a public option is not ready for prime time...

We got to stop demonizing our business owners um they are not the bad people in all this they love and they invest so much in their employees and our Lakeville community...

To me it's a really kind of a two-pronged approach first we need to make sure that we are continuing to support our great public education system to make sure that we are training all of our students so that they are ready to take on those jobs of the 21st century we also need to continue to make Lakeville in the state an attractive place for people to come.

We need to stop adding burdensome regulations and taxes that are pushing companies and entrepreneurs away.

If our neighbors do better it lifts up the entire Community livable wages and affordable child care are also a must.

Every bill that comes should be there to resolve a problem we want to understand we agree on that problem I think we usually can and then let's find a way to make a step forward.

Find things that you can agree on that actually help your district and not work on the fringes.

Well I'm running to be a problem solver a solutionary someone who is there to put the needs of the people and the ecosystems that we rely on over partisan politics and also over moneyed interests.

You don't get anything done if uh you're on the far right or in the far left and I try to work in the middle I've earned a reputation for Reaching Across the aisle to find Solutions.

I support helping schools with more unrestricted funding schools have different needs and the legislature should not be a Statewide School Board.

I just learned Lakeville High has English classes with 37 to 40 kids that's that's not a success story how do you get to those students as an educator how do you as a teacher grade all those essays and keep up with it so we need to make sure we're adequately funding our schools so we can keep that per pupil teacher ratio down.

The problem that's happening is is this money is not getting down to our teachers and our students we are uh overloading our schools with mandates and a lot of the money is getting uh dropped at the uh Department of Education so we need that money to get to the the the people that really matters.

Our education system sometimes feels like it's primarily a path to college and we need to make sure that we are supporting all of our students in all of the career directions that they want to go.

I don't think we want to raise to the bottom we're in in a state where we want quality roads our infrastructure we want our our schools to be high quality when we look at some of the places that are low taxes there's also a much lower standard of living...

First of all we got to reduce our spending um once we can reduce some of our spending get that under control we can cut taxes one of the things I found very unique when I got up to St Paul and uh I was on the tax committee um about 50% % of Minnesota pay tax and the other 50% don't so it goes on the backs of a lot of motans and a lot of businesses...

I guess I see their picture of our economy here in Minnesota a little bit differently we are ranked by US News and World Report is number four place in terms of attractiveness for people to to settle and in terms of livability we are home to 19 Fortune 500 companies and private giants like carvil so this is a Minnesota is a good place to be in business.

The tax Foundation ranks the business climates and a variety other factors and Minnesota ranked 44th out of 50 to the worst business tax climate um your question is about competitiveness and uh if you're starting a new business or you're get to be a large enough business you're you're going to move away from Minnesota we can deny it but it's happening.