Let's bring southern Minnesota back.
Practical, local, and focused on your family's budget. Here's what Jackie will fight for in St. Paul.
Rooting Out Fraud & Waste
Jackie's number-one priority is accountability: ending the fraud and waste that have drained hundreds of millions from Minnesota taxpayers. Every dollar lost to fraud is a dollar taken from your family's budget. She'll demand real oversight and real consequences — and she'll do it the way she always has, by talking to the people on the ground to find out how the money is actually being spent. After a lifetime here and a career starting and running businesses, she knows how to talk to people, and she knows who to ask.
- Root out fraud and waste in state spending
- Demand real oversight, accountability, and consequences
- Talk to people on the ground about where the money goes
- Hold every agency answerable to the taxpayers who fund it
Affordability & Property-Tax Relief
Property taxes keep climbing while paychecks stay flat, and after years of one-party control in St. Paul, families across southern Minnesota are feeling the squeeze. This isn't about left or right — it's about your property-tax bill and your grocery receipt. Jackie will fight for property-tax relief and a lower cost of living — starting with a solid, honest review of the regulations that have driven prices up. She's pro-paycheck and pro-business: cut the red tape that makes everyday life more expensive, because no family should have to choose between their home and their groceries.
- Push back on rising property taxes and levies
- Review and cut the regulations driving prices up
- Lower the everyday cost of living for working families
- Relief for homeowners and seniors on fixed incomes
Jobs & Trade Skills
College has its place, but it isn't the only path — and not everyone needs a four-year degree to build a good life here. Jackie isn't guessing about agriculture, either: she grew up working her family's farm — dairy, hogs, and crops — doing the fieldwork and running hogs alongside her brother's operation. She wants to educate and train people in the trades, keep jobs in Minnesota, and incentivize our local manufacturing base — from the family farm to the factory floor. Where data centers make sense, build them responsibly and out in the open: real disclosure for the communities they affect, and no more NDAs.
- Train the next generation in real trade skills — not everyone needs college
- Keep jobs here and incentivize local manufacturing
- Back agriculture as the backbone of southern Minnesota
- Build data centers responsibly — full disclosure, no more NDAs
Schools That Work
Our kids deserve schools focused on learning, not bureaucracy. Jackie is for bringing education back home — to local control, where parents and teachers, not distant mandates, set the course. She'll fight to get dollars into the classroom, free teachers to teach, and make sure students learn to use new tools — including AI — constructively and safely.
- Bring education back to local control
- Fund classrooms and cut top-down mandates
- Support teachers and parents
- Teach kids to use AI constructively and safely
Responsible Production
If we don't produce energy and materials here, we import them from places that do it dirtier. St. Paul's one-party majority locked in a 100%-carbon-free-by-2040 mandate — and our current senator chairs the energy committee behind it. Jackie wants an energy and jobs policy that's clean AND lets southern Minnesota build, mine, and manufacture the things America needs: a 'produce it here, do it responsibly' agenda that protects our natural treasures while we out-produce our competitors.
- Back an all-of-the-above energy and jobs policy
- Support responsible domestic mining and manufacturing
- Protect Minnesota's land and water while we produce