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Aug 311 min
My first service to farmers: a WARNING
This can be my first service to farmers as your (potential) representative: a warning about what the MAGA-Republican Party plans for...
Aug 311 min
A great economy – and you're not feeling it yet?
Over the past legislative session, Democrats brought you... low unemployment record-setting new jobs rising wages inflation coming down...
Aug 311 min
Turn it off before it's over?!
Do you watch "Law and Order" on television? And when you do, do you ever turn it off 5 minutes before the program ends? Of course not!...
Aug 311 min
About that "F" in DFL
There's good reason for that "F" in DFL. DFL, of course, stands for Democratic/ Farmer/ Labor, and Democratic legislators have been...
Aug 311 min
Stupid
You'll hear a MAGA Republican say, Project 2025 has nothing to do with Trump – and Trump has nothing to do with Project 2025. That falls...
Aug 312 min
How American democracy dies
This year you really need to vote. Because if you don't vote this time, you may never be able to vote again. Let me tell you how ...
Aug 311 min
Republicans we admired
When I was about 5 years old, Dweight Eisenhower, later a Republican president, led the Greatest Generation to defeat the Nazis. Now that...
Aug 311 min
Yes, there can be JOY in politics
We just need to get past being angry and afraid.* Then YOU and YOUR GOVERNMENT can PARTNER to discover ways to make your life better....
Jul 311 min
Another Welcome Endorsement
I'm honored to have received the endorsement of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers LU #343 (IBEW). It represents the...
Jul 281 min
Your ADVOCATE in St. Paul
I'm offering my experience and skill as an advocate in service to you, to find ways to make your life better. Here is what "advocacy" means:
Jul 250 min
Jul 255 min
Questions from Journal (updated for 2024)
Here are the questions and my answers as published in the November 3, 2022, New Ulm Journal. The answers are still valid in 2024, and the...
Jul 31 min
Rural Caucus Endorsement
I'm proud to join the other outstanding office-holders and candidates who have been endorsed by the DFL Rural Caucus. The DFL Rural...
Jun 301 min
The Age Issue
OK so I am 84. I wish I were younger too. But I’ll go by what a young voter told me a while ago: it’s not how old you are, it’s what you...
Jun 294 min
Wait – you're not a farmer!
When asked on what committees I'd like to serve when a legislator, I reply that, along with Health and Human Services and Economic...
Oct 15, 20223 min
That Disappointing Republican Mailer (2022)
Our faithful postal carrier delivered to my mailbox a card from our current representatives, Torkelson and Dahms. It still has me...
Oct 12, 20222 min
Issues on the Lawn Part One (2022)
We didn't know if anyone would come. It turns out five people did, and it was a good sesssion. A simple ad in the New Ulm Journal and in...
Sep 14, 20222 min
Where are the Initiatives? (2022)
I've been campaigning for only a few months and already I've learned about many things the legislature could be dealing with that would...
Sep 14, 20222 min
On Highway 14 and Broadband (2022)
I've described your current representative’s legislative style as "wait and let things happen." I don't do that with pleasure, nor do I...
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