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State Senator

What does this office do?

  • Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
  • Voting on how much money your local public schools get
  • Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired

Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,

Candidates:

Democratic-Farmer-Labor · Incumbent

Erin Murphy serves in the Minnesota Senate and was an operating room nurse who became executive director of the Minnesota Nurses Association. She holds a leadership master's from St. Catherine University.

Records: Immigration 1 against

Republican

Robert Bushard is a U.S. Air Force Vietnam veteran and lifelong Merriam Park resident. He says his priorities are single-family homeownership, crime prevention, lower taxes, limits on spending and rezoning, and ending ranked choice voting.

Source: ballotpedia.org