POLICY ISSUES
This campaign launched March 11, 2025. Since the beginning, we’ve talked about taking a different path to achieve a different result. I intend to look at past, current, and future legislation through a lens of restore, reform, and repeal. What legislation has passed that negatively impacts our country and that needs to be repealed? What has been taken away that should be restored? And lastly, what in our political system needs to be reformed?
This isn’t your typical campaign, and this isn’t your typical issues section. Our intent wasn’t to tell people what to think, but rather to listen to their concerns. In response to what we heard, this is our plan to improve the lives of the people we seek to serve.
Agriculture
The last time a new Farm Bill was passed was in 2018, when Collin Peterson was still in office. This legislation has historically operated on a five-year cycle in order to keep up with constantly changing trends in agriculture. Instead, under our current representative, it has been extended multiple times without comprehensive change. Our congressional district, despite being second-largest in the nation in farm producers and number of farms, has not had representation on the Ag Committee since Michelle Fischbach took office in 2021.
If elected, I would seek to serve on the House Committee on Agriculture, ensuring that the second-largest farming district in the country once again has a voice in Congress.
Tariffs are supposed to fall under the legislative branch of our government. I would fight to restore this power to Congress and repeal the illegal and harmful tariffs imposed by the current administration. Farmers want clarity & consistency when it comes to policy. Farmers I’ve talked with want stable, predictable markets, not the uncertainty created by tariffs and jacked up input costs. We need to get our global markets back and create domestic demand drivers that support our agricultural community.
Farmers have grown to distrust our government and I would work to restore that trust. As a financial advisor, banker, and insurance representative, I cultivated relationships with farmers and their families and developed financial strategies that minimized risk while maximizing potential returns. I had to get to know each client’s financial goals as well as their legacy goals. Together, we worked to ensure a secure future for their family businesses. I worked in the financial sector during one of the most turbulent markets in modern history. What this means to the voters of western Minnesota is that I understand the real world impacts greed can have. In that role, farmers trusted me with their money—I believe they’ll also trust me with their vote.
Beyond market concerns, our agricultural communities face a multitude of challenges. They should have the right to repair their own equipment. Suicide rates can be high in agriculture and they need access to mental healthcare. In addition, as stewards of the land they should be incentivized to use environmentally friendly practices. We also need to restore green energy programs.
