House District 10A 2026 Election Guide

Contributed

Website: mmformn.com

Party: DFL

Age on Election Day: 57

Community: Brainerd

Employment: Self Employed- Chef, Consultant, Instructor

Please share any prior experience and education that you believe qualifies you for office.

I bring more than 30 years of leadership experience in property management, inventory management, and small business ownership. Throughout my career, I have developed strong skills in budgeting, process improvement, team leadership, customer relations, and strategic planning.

I enjoy solving complex problems and finding practical solutions that help organizations operate more efficiently while delivering strong results. In corporate life, I oversaw complex operational processes and workforce coordination, while entrepreneurship has provided hands-on experience in financial management, marketing, and business development. My background in economics helps me make informed, practical decisions. I bring a results-oriented approach focused on organization, collaboration, and effective solutions.

Why are you running?

I believe rural communities deserve strong representation from someone who understands the everyday challenges families, businesses, schools, and healthcare providers face. I am running because I believe we can solve problems without treating every issue as a partisan battle. I want to bring my leadership and business experience to the Legislature and focus on practical solutions that strengthen our communities.

Why should voters elect you?

People should vote for me because I bring a practical approach, and a genuine commitment to put people first. I will listen, ask questions, study the issues, and work with others to help return funding, reduce mandates when possible, and help move our communities forward.

My priorities are clear- strengthening our local economy, protecting access to rural healthcare, and investing in quality education. I believe rural Minnesota deserves a representative who will show up, listen to people throughout the district, and put the peoples' needs ahead of political games. I will bring my leadership and business experience to the Legislature and work to be a thoughtful, principled, and practical voice for the people of MN House District 10A.

What are your top three priorities, if elected? Please describe specific policy goals.

My top three priorities are economic growth, rural healthcare, and education. I want to strengthen small businesses and local economies by reducing unnecessary barriers, encouraging entrepreneurship, and connecting local employers with the skilled workers they need. I also want to encourage local sourcing so more dollars stay in our communities.

I will work to protect access to quality healthcare by supporting efforts to recruit and retain medical professionals, strengthen rural healthcare facilities, and expand innovative solutions such as mobile and community-based care.

I want to help Minnesota attract and retain excellent teachers, invest in school infrastructure, and expand career and technical education so students graduate with the skills they need for careers, and opportunities close to home. My goal is simple: strong communities where people can live, work, and thrive.

Name a public leader you admire and explain why.

A public leader I admire is Winston Churchill. He exhibited determination and the ability to remain steady during an incredibly difficult and uncertain time. He understood that leadership isn't always about saying what people want to hear; sometimes it's about telling the truth, standing by your principles, and having the courage to make difficult decisions when the stakes are high. I also admire his ability to inspire people, even when the challenges ahead wouldn’t be easy. To me, good leadership means being thoughtful and measured, but also having the conviction to act when action is needed. That combination—listening carefully, speaking thoughtfully, and having the strength to stand firm when it matters—is something I strive to bring to my own leadership.

What natural resources policies do you support?

I believe Minnesota can protect its natural resources while supporting the rural communities and economies that depend on them. I support protecting our forests, water, and wildlife through responsible stewardship and science-based policies.

We need to support agriculture, outdoor recreation, tourism, AND responsible natural-resource development that provides jobs and economic opportunities, while enforcing our strong environmental standards. I believe decisions about our natural resources should be based on sound science, long-term thinking, and input from the communities most affected. Rural Minnesotans should have a voice in these decisions. Our natural resources are part of what makes Minnesota special, but they are also an important economic asset. We have a responsibility to protect them while ensuring future generations can continue to live and work here.

What policies do you support to address concerns of widespread fraud in state-run programs?

Fraud is already illegal, and we have a court system to prosecute those who steal. The bigger question is how quickly we can identify it and stop the loss. Some of Minnesota’s human-services systems are built on technology dating back to the 1980s and early 1990s, making it harder to share information, identify suspicious patterns, and use modern fraud-detection tools. I support modernizing these systems so agencies can share data, access better analytics programs, and automated red-flag detection to catch fraud earlier and stop improper payments. We also need stronger oversight, more independent audits, and better coordination between agencies and investigators. When fraud is identified, it should be investigated and prosecuted through our existing legal system, with every effort made to recover all taxpayer dollars. We don't need to reinvent the law—we need to give the government workers the tools and accountability to enforce it effectively.

What policies would you champion to help alleviate growing property tax burdens on residents at the local government level? 

Rural communities face a unique challenge: in places like Aitkin County, we have an aging population and a limited local tax base, yet strong schools are essential to attracting younger workers and families that we need for our communities to continue. I support making better use of Minnesota's Permanent School Fund to provide additional school funding without increasing property taxes. Schools aren't just an education expense—they are part of our economic infrastructure.

I also support helping local governments find efficiencies through shared services, technology, regional cooperation, and better long-term planning. And the state needs to be careful not to shift costs onto counties and townships without providing the means to pay for them. For homeowners who are struggling, I support strengthening targeted property-tax relief such as the Homestead Credit Refund. Ultimately, we need to control spending growth while maintaining the services our communities depend on.

What does representative democracy mean to you?

To me, representative democracy means that our government works best when elected officials truly represent the people who sent them there. That starts with listening—not just to the people who agree with me, but to those who don't, and whether they voted for me or not. I believe my responsibility is to gather information, consider different viewpoints, make thoughtful decisions, and then be accountable for those decisions. I believe every constituent deserves to be heard. Most importantly, representative democracy means showing up—not just at the Capitol, but in the communities I represent—and remembering that I work for the people, not the other way around. I want to be a representative who is accessible, shows up, and remembers that the title comes with an obligation to serve.

Contributed

Party: Republican

Age on Election Day: 69

Community: Brainerd

Employment: retired

Please share any prior experience and education that you believe qualifies you for office.

BA in Biology and Education, Coach, Insurance Agent, Registered Representative, Pharmaceutical Representative. Certified Home Inspector.

Why are you running?

Minnesota's political leadership has become morally corrupt, leading to Billions in fraud and educationally turned the public school's curricula into an immoral cesspool.

Why should voters elect you?

I have experience in Business, Teaching, and 38 years in sales which requires communication and negotiation skills. Embracing truth and rejecting falsehood leads to trust and beneficial progress. We live in a time where Truth is often redefined to mean whatever suits one's agenda. That is not truth and needs to be exposed for the deceit that it is.

What are your top three priorities, if elected? Please describe specific policy goals.

Re-establish equal justice under the Law, prosecute and incarcerate those leaders who were complicit in the billions in fraud, while removing from office those who do not uphold their oath of office. Secure our voting system with hand counted paper ballots with one day voting. (With the exception of traditional absentee ballots for military and others unable to be at the election site.) Remove all taxpayer funding for sex change procedures and do what we can to protect life from conception to natural death.

Name a public leader you admire and explain why.

Senator Brandon Gill is good at exposing false narratives in the political scene.

What natural resources policies do you support?

Responsible clean mineral mining with processing in ND. Use of natural gas, and nuclear energy over the inefficient windmills and solar panels which use our tax dollars to compete.

What policies do you support to address concerns of widespread fraud in state-run programs?

It appears there is a two-tier system in MN with regard to monitoring businesses. Legitimate businesses are monitored excessively while these businesses that were and are involved in fraud appeared not to be monitored at all. That is a red flag for complicit fraud on the part of government leadership. Prosecute and incarcerate the leaders involved.

What policies would you champion to help alleviate growing property tax burdens on residents at the local government level? 

If we eliminate fraud is it possible to reduce or even eliminate property tax? We need to go back to essential services not the expensive nanny state policies like the family leave act that continue to increase costs to employers and ultimately, the taxpayer. We never had it in previous decades and the mindset that more and more of these benefits should be mandatory is leading to financial collapse.

What does representative democracy mean to you?

We are not a pure democracy as the leftists continue to try to make us believe. Representative democracy would give greater power to the majority rule, rather than representation in a Republic form of democracy which is more equitable to the minority segments of society.