Minnesota Senate

She too was born in Somalia, came to the US when she was nine years old.

In 2023, she became the youngest member in Minnesota State Senate history, and the first Somali woman.

Uh, thank you so much for being with us, State Senator.

If you can respond to your colleague, what has happened to Congressmember Ilhan Omar? The, not exactly the Justice Department, but Homeland Security agents raiding her home in Washington, DC, and now according to New York Times, family members, including her sister, have been subpoenaed.

For, for Minnesota Legislature seats, these are not congressional seats or senate seats.

These are Minnesota House, Minnesota Senate.

And we've found upwards of $5 million that has trickled in...

Well, not trickled in.

The purpose, his lawyers wrote in a motion seeking to exclude the tracking evidence, was locating and arresting him.

Agents also applied for cell site simulator warrants targeting the phones of Fort and Jamel Lundy, then a Minnesota State Senate candidate.

People running for office.

They separately sought PIN register orders, which can log the numbers a phone contacts for Fort and a number wire traced to Lemon.

That's a great question, Catherine.

Um, I've been a really an independent voice in the Minnesota Senate for a long time.

Uh, every bill I've passed has been a bipartisan bill.

Uh, I know how to work across the aisle and how to get things done.

I think it comes from my experience working in the corporate world where we were, we were expected to solve problems or we got fired.

And my job was always either to take on a new problem or fix, uh, a team that was broken, and, uh, that's what I've been able to do in the Minnesota Senate.

That's what I did in, uh, 12 years on the, on the Prior Lake School Board where we, uh, overcame a million dollar debt into a $3 million surplus and test scores went up.

We did, uh, some great work there, and, um, I expect to bring that same, uh, that same, uh, uh, sense of accomplishment to Washington.

Um, so we have some more candidates coming and letting me know if they're coming, but for now, we have from the GSL School Board, um, Sara Heuser, Joyce Peterson, and Kevin Kuester.

We have from the Minnesota Senate, um, Julie Kelzer, and from the Minnesota House of Representatives, we have Don Gilman and Molly Anderson.

From the City Council, we have Paul Lemke, and like I said, there's more coming and more RSVPing here soon.

I know in the past they have either streamed it or broadcast it.

One thing that's really interesting, and I-- and if you, and if you have, uh, RealClearPolitics still open, I'm curious what their numbers are.

Uh, look at the Minnesota Senate race for me because-

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Okay.

Uh, let me pull it up, and I'll share my screen.

Uh, Minnesota Senate, Tafoya, uh, Flanagan.

Okay.

Safe to assume it's a majority.

It was brought to me by Alicia Gruenhagen, who is running a write-in campaign for Minnesota Senate.

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Senate of Minnesota.