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Grandfather, Provider, Veteran. Candidate for Minnesota Senate District 56. Remember Normal?
Apple Valley, MN
Joined November 2022
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Meet me Monday. I will be out walking in our community at the locations and times attached in my replies to this post, weather permitting. Please come out, walk with me and introduce yourself. Although I don’t take contributions to my campaign, I’m sure the local retailers, restaurants and service providers would also love the chance to earn your business.
If you have a business in the area and would like me to stop in, please let me know.
If you choose not to vote, they don’t even have to try to cheat. They have already won. It only takes a few minutes each year.
While most attention focuses on the big races, our state capitol is as evenly divided as it can get. I remember when Democrats held a 2/3 supermajority in the MN senate (for decades) and they didn’t cause as much damage to the state as they have in the last four years.
I never imagined myself in politics. I was content with voting and sending a few dollars to a candidate every now and then. The Walz Dictatorship changed my thinking. I could sulk or I could act. I have chosen to put my time and my money into taking back Minnesota for our children and grandchildren.
I am not rich or famous, I am not a college educated elitist zealot, I am not a member of a look at my identity special interest group. I am a multi-generational, life-long Minnesotan that is unwilling to give up. I am simply asking you to not give up.
Reminder, if you choose not to vote because you believe they cheat, they don’t have to cheat, they’ve already won.
Why do we even have judicial election when the only option are the incumbent and “right- in?” It’s no wonder our courts don’t improve.
“AI will strip us naked, sexually assault us and kill us all within 10 years.” At least that’s what some of our political leaders want you to believe in their newest fear mongering election tactic. “We must pass laws now to take political control from these horrible engineers creating this monster.”
The truth is that AI is a powerful tool that allows individuals to get access to information and viewpoints that the politicians do not want them to have and take action on that knowledge in ways they may not previously have had the skills for. As with all tools, the information can be accurate or inaccurate, it can be biased, it can be friendly or mean. None of that has changed since the first person put pen to paper. In fact, that’s what AI really is, print for the 21st century with some skill enhancement thrown in.
What’s new is AI’s ability to create new information pulled from various sources and combined in such a way that no person had yet thought of. It also has the ability to act on that information either by direction of or in the absence of human intervention. As AI, like many politicians, has no moral compass; this can be either a positive or negative outcome depending on the viewpoint, and one cannot be legislated away without removing the other.
I am far more concerned about the natural intelligence that is actively trying to harm us now. Scammers trying to steal our wealth (and I don’t just mean politicians), hackers trying to disrupt our water systems, politicians trying to use laws against companies as a back door route to eliminating our natural rights and violent repeat offenders that keep being let back into society. Let’s work on preventing harm by these real threats of today, and that will in itself address the potential threats of AI in the future.
We have been hearing the word “Bipartisanship” a lot recently. The politicians that were shouting “this is how you use a majority” in 2023 now want you to believe that they are bipartisan, working with the other party to get things done. Unsolicited political consultant emails that I receive tell me to use bipartisan when I talk to people. What does that really mean?
Bipartisanship has gotten us over $40 Trillion dollars of Federal Debt, with over $2 Trillion being added every year driving up inflation and costing every American over $2800 each year just in interest.
Bipartisanship has avoided passing additional laws protecting our elections even though 80% of Americans want it.
I believe in Nonpartisanship. While I tend to agree with Republicans far more often than Democrats, I do not work for the Republican Party. I will work for, listen to and represent the citizens of Apple Valley, Rosemount and Eagan in a manner that I believe will be best for their long term success. I cannot promise that everyone will always like my decisions, but I will always make them in the best interests of my constituents and not the political parties.
AI is a productivity tool, just like domesticated pack animals in ancient times, the wheel, electricity, computers, etc. You’ve been using it far longer than you realize. It will change the nature and increase the efficiency of but not eliminate the need for workers. Like every technology in history, it can be used for good or evil, but that is the responsibility of the user, not the tool.
AI and the data centers that run it is growing. Maybe here, maybe from a different state, maybe from a different country and those that fight it will be the impoverished of the future.
We need political leaders that hold the users responsible for what they do with technology, not blame the technology. Democrats in particular will not do this because if they acknowledge individual responsibility, they will have to acknowledge individual freedom. That goes against a century of elitism in the party of “I’m educated so I’m better than you.”
There is far less distance between Republicans and Democrats than there is between either of those groups and their party leadership. Healing will begin when people are willing to put in a little time to research individual candidates and vote for people, not parties.
Raymond Petersen retweeted
🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥
CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”
Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”
CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”
Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”
CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”
Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”
CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”
Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”
CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”
Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”
CNN: “Você está polarizando.”
Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The written dialog doesn’t match the video and is a fabrication of a discussion. While it is amusing, it does not represent any verifiable transcript or source video
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Raymond Petersen retweeted
Long rant but stick with me here..
Amy Klobuchar wants Minnesotans outraged about the “horror show” farmers are supposedly living through? Here's something I would hope every Minnesotans knows...
AMY KLOBUCHAR IS THE RANKING MEMBER OF THE SENATE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE.
I'm a Minnesota farmer, so let's cut through the campaign BS.
She says we're being devastated by trade.
She says we're losing markets.
She says fertilizer and fuel costs are hammering us.
THEN WHERE THE HELL IS THE FARM BILL?
You're not some helpless spectator standing on the sidelines, Amy.
YOU'RE THE TOP DEMOCRAT ON THE SENATE AG COMMITTEE.
Yet the Farm Bill is STILL unfinished while Washington continues fighting over SNAP provisions.
And now Minnesotans are being sold this idea that Amy needs to become Governor so she can “stand up” to Trump's FEDERAL trade policy?
Think about that for about five seconds.
She's already sitting in the UNITED STATES SENATE, on the AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE, in a leadership position, with an actual role in federal agricultural policy. But apparently the solution is to leave Washington for St. Paul and THEN she'll save Minnesota farmers from Washington.
I'm actually farming in Minnesota. I don't need a politician explaining that fertilizer is expensive. I WRITE THE CHECKS. I don't need a politician explaining that markets matter. MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THEM. Also, us Minnesota farmers damn sure shouldn't be hauled out as campaign props while the people already holding power in Washington point fingers at everybody else.
Forget the campaign slogans for a minute, Minnesota.
Ask what she's accomplished with the power she ALREADY HAS.
Because blaming Trump from an interview is easy.
Raymond Petersen retweeted
I’m honored to receive the endorsement of the MCCL State PAC.
I’m grateful for their confidence in my commitment to protecting the dignity and value of every human life. I look forward to continuing to stand for strong families, responsible leadership, and a better future for Minnesota.
Thank you to MCCL State PAC for your support!
#AndrewHattawayforMN
#VoteHattaway
#ChampionForLife
On Wednesday, August 26th, I will be in Apple Valley in the vicinity of Cedar Ave. and 150th St W roughly 11:00am to 1:00pm.
On Monday, August 24th, I will be in Apple Valley in the vicinity of Galaxie Ave. and 150th St W roughly 6:00 to 7:00 pm.
Friday, the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board announced the distribution of over $5 million dollars of taxpayer funds to political campaigns throughout the state. This money will be used to flood your mailbox with junk, air attack ads while you try to relax watching tv and incessantly bombard you with text and phone calls. I declined to participate in this giveaway and value your privacy and intelligence too much to continually harass you for the next 10 weeks until election day.
This week I was reminded by MNGOP members that my opponent will be receiving these taxpayer subsidies in addition to fund raising, all while collecting a Senate salary while out campaigning. I heard suggestions that I needed to quit my job, place aside my beliefs that Minnesotans have already suffered enough over the past 8 years and start fund raising every day until election day. I won’t do it; and since I don’t owe MNGOP anything for my primary win, I don’t have to. I am not running for a political party, I am running for the people of Apple Valley, Rosemount and Eagan.
I believe in “practicing what I preach.” I have continually heard the refrain from all parties to get money and lifetime politicians out of politics. Maybe we will now find out if that is what people really want. We have seen the results of education over experience, identity over achievement and violent attacks over cooperation. I have been told by people of all parties how tired they are of making excuses for MN government.
Remember Normal? If so, tell your family, friends, co-workers and neighbors to check out my campaign and then decide for themselves. Thank you again for your support, Ray
On Monday, August 17th, I will be in Rosemount in the vicinity of South Robert Trail and 150th St W.
The last week has been astonishing. We went from being told that I had no chance because I refuse to beg for money, pander for endorsements or perform any of the other political circus acts as everyone else, to receiving your vote to become the Republican Nominee for Minnesota Senate District 56 in the November General Election. I am beyond grateful for the trust you have placed in me.
I have been accused of not being serious because I will not “play the game.” I most definitely am serious, but I ran because I’m tired of “the game.” I’m tired of my home state thinking that they can do whatever they want to the citizens because they had a one vote majority. I’m tired of endless tax increases to fund ever more waste and fraud. I’m tired of children graduating high school that can’t read their diploma. I want change, and that begins with my campaign. If I don’t believe in myself enough to fund myself, then I shouldn’t be doing this. I know however, that I cannot do it alone. I truly thank each of you that has believed in my campaign enough to spread the word to your family, friends and neighbors. This wouldn’t have happened without you.
Now as we head toward November, I will continue to count on your support at getting the word out and then getting the vote out. I have ordered a limited number of yard signs for those that would like to support me by providing a location. Send me an email with your address, permission and preferred contact method and I will personally bring it out when they arrive. Again, there is no charge and no donation. For those that question why I don’t take donations or sell “merchandise,” it is because I, unlike our current politicians, would feel bad if it turned out to be wasted or stolen.
Thank you again for this tremendous achievement. Ray