Like most of you I’ve spent the last few weeks enjoying the early spring, getting our garden in and finally catching fish on the opener. But while I was at home this year, our Minnesota Legislature was down in Saint Paul fighting for us. Thecharge was led by Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher. Margaret’s opponent was a governor who long ago turned his back on Minnesota in a quest for power in Washington D.C.
Margaret and her caucus brought forward ways to invest over a billion in Minnesota job growth, to get schools again going in the right direction and to bring $1.4 billion in federal funding for health care for Minnesotans. Our governor said “no” to all of it; not because it was the right thing for us but in hopes of getting the attention of the most extreme members of his national party; the same ones he hopes will reward his blind ambition with their presidential nomination.
TheGovernor’s “No, no, no” forced Margaret and your legislators to dig in and fight to preserve and protect those things that have made Minnesota great. In the face of the governor’s plans to cut our schools and kick Minnesotans off of their health insurance, Margaret stood up to the governor. Her leadership brought our state back from the brink and now it’s time to change course. It’s time for a governor who will say, “Yes.” Yes to our students, yes to quality health care for all of us, yes to those of us who still need jobs.
Minnesotans deserve a governor who actually wants to be governor, not because of where it will lead him or her but because of where she can lead us. We have that chance to elect a governor who’s not in it for himself, but who’s in it for us. Let’s elect a governor who will again listen to us and will say yes to putting more of us to work, getting our schools going in the right direction and making quality health care a reality for every Minnesotan.
Frank Moe
Former Minnesota State Representative
Colvill, MN
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