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Minnesota State House District 29B

State Representatives serve in the Minnesota House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the state legislature. They write and vote on legislation to create, repeal, or change state laws affecting many issues, like health care, the environment, and the economy. They also vote on state taxes and the state spending.

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    Colton Kratky
    (DFL)

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    Marion (O'Neill) Rarick
    (Rep)

Biographical Information

If elected, what will your top three priorities be and why? (750 characters)

What will you do to support a vibrant economy across Minnesota and to address inflation? (500 character)

What legislation, if any, would you support to address racial or ethnic disparities in Minnesota? (500 characters)

What legislation, if any, would you support to address climate change and its effects in Minnesota? (500 characters)

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Campaign Website http://kratky4mn.com
Facebook (Full URL) http://facebook.com/kratky4mn
Campaign Twitter Handle @kratky4mn
Campaign Email colton@kratky4mn.com
Contact Phone ‪(763) 290-0482‬
website kratky4mn.com
My top three priorities are the education budget, community support, and housing. We need to take a detailed look at our education budget and streamline it to ensure money is getting to where it matters most; our teachers, students, and support staff. We need to work with city governments to build more locations and systems to support our communities. Such as shelters for homeless and domestic violence victims, food shelves for the hungry, and help centers for items and assistance. These services are mostly located around the largest cities and we need more of them spread through the state. Finally, we need to work again with the cities to modernize zoning laws to allow for more housing and more diverse styles of housing.
We need to support our small and medium sized businesses. They are the lifeblood of our state and our economy. Large corporations rarely care about the customers or the places they are at, while smaller companies not only provide better service and items to customers, they also reinvest their earnings back into the local economy. Now that the inflation rate is leveling off, we need to make sure that there is not price gouging going on in our state and that pricing is fair and balanced.
I would support legislation that works to enact equity for all racial and ethnic groups until a point that equality is finally reached. We are not at that point yet and need to continue working to dismantle the built in systemic issues that have worked their way into our society.
We need to continue investment in working towards 100% carbon free energy. However, we do have to be smart about it. If we try to do sweeping changes not only will our infrastructure not be ready for it, but we will be leaving the current laborers in those fields in a lurch. We have to make a long term plan that starts to enact things now in small increments that takes into account the time it will take to update infrastructure and prepare the workforce.
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