Safe Roads and Bridges The Minnesota Constitution spells out our rights, liberties, and how government is to be organized. Very few sections of the constitution outline how money is to be spent. Transportation is one of those sections, so we have a constitutional obligation to get it right....
How about a little waste, fraud or abuse? Waste, fraud and abuse. There’s a fair share of it in government. Take the MNsure website, Minnesota’s version of Obamacare, strongly supported by my opponent, Kevin Dahle. It has taken hundreds of millions of dollars to “fix” the site, and it still...
Lowering Health Care Costs We all know the problems. Health insurance costs continue to skyrocket, making health care unaffordable for families, farmers and small business owners. Here in Minnesota, the state’s MNsure program has been plagued by huge cost overruns, delays, computer glitches,...
It’s back to school time! Issue #3 – Keeping the Quality in Minnesota’s Education System Rich Draheim grew up in a family of educators. His grandmother was a teacher in a one room school house in southern Minnesota, his mom a teacher in Mankato, his uncle taught in Owatonna, his aunt in Faribault...
Issue two – Preserving Agriculture as Minnesota’s Best Natural Resource Rich Draheim is blessed to be a life-long Minnesotan, born and raised in Mankato. After graduating from Minnesota State Mankato with a business administration degree, Rich went to work full time as a Manager at John Deere...