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 What legislation has passed that negatively impacts our country and that needs to be repealed?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.
Housing
The Sierra Club has said of H.R.1 (the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill), “It is not an overstatement to say this is the most anti-environment bill in history.” H.R. 1 rolled back funding and tax incentives for the development and use of clean energy technology, encouraging companies to increase their reliance on nonrenewable, more toxic fossil fuels. Green tech like solar and wind farms is not not only the cleanest form of energy, but also the cheapest. Cutting back on these initiatives not only hurts the environment, but also your pocketbooks with rising power bills and job cuts for workers in the green energy industries.
We should keep public lands public, for the enjoyment of all. Regulated, respected public lands ensure that all hikers, fishers, and hunters in Minnesota can enjoy the fruits of nature. Corporations that want to extract as much profit as possible from our forests and rivers have no reason to keep those ecosystems healthy and replenished season after season. Instead, they extract, pollute, and disrupt until our local communities can no longer enjoy the nature they always have loved and relied on for food and spiritual nourishment.
