Dodge County

So District 24 is a really unusual district in that it's so divided in many ways.

It's the southern portion of Rochester, which is the third largest city in Minnesota, but it also covers all of Dodge County,

which is

very rural.

They want their government to work for them.

and we have been hearing quite a bit of that.

And I will tell you, you know, we were outdoor knocking out in Cassin, which, you know, is a smaller city in Dodge County that traditionally, like I said, has not voted Democrat.

And some of the volunteers that were out with us were like, you know, we knocked these turfs two years ago, and these were not persuadable voters, but they're listening now.

So District 24 is a really unusual district in that it's so divided, um, in many ways.

It's the southern portion of Rochester, uh, which is the third-largest city in Minnesota, but it also covers all of Dodge County-

Mm-hmm

... which is very rural.

Most of those issues are handled within local jurisdictions as far as orderly annexations and that type of impact and how agriculture is preserved.

This specific Senate district deals completely in Dodge County, so there's 12 townships over there, but the townships that are around and in Olmstead County, they each kind of handle that separately as far as what requirements are for the size of the lots, if they're developing, things like that.

So I don't really hear a whole lot of that at the doors.

We certainly see there's the solar fields and some of those types of issues that are People are concerned that the best agricultural land in the world is being tied up by some of those resources, but we certainly know that the land is preserved underneath there as well, and typically it's a great use for the land also.

When you think about the federal impact on the economy, whether it's health care or agriculture, how often does President Trump come up in your conversations and what's the sense of how people feel about the president?

I mean, he comes up.

It's very clear that I think we have very sophisticated voters in the state of Minnesota and certainly in Rochester and Dodge County.

They definitely separate the issues and they recognize that maybe on the federal side, things have gone wrong.