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Education Minnesota announces 23 new legislative endorsements 

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ST. PAUL, Minnesota. Sept. 13, 2024 – Education Minnesota announced its endorsement Friday of 23 candidates for the Minnesota House of Representatives and state Senate, including two members of the union. 

The union endorses candidates for the state Legislature after they fill out a questionnaire and screen with local educators about the candidate’s views on public education. The union considers endorsements in groups and will announce more endorsements in coming weeks. 

A complete list of the union’s endorsed candidates is posted at www.edmnvotes.org. 

The endorsements announced Sept. 13 are below. An * indicates a member of Education Minnesota. 

District Name Party 
5A  Brian Hobson*  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
9A  Michael Ziomko  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
13A  Cindy Aho  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
19B Edel Fernandez-Mejia  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
24A  Heather Holmes  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
26B  Gregory M. Davids  Republican 
30A  Sonja Buckmeier  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
32A  Ashton Ramsammy  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
34A  Brian Raines  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
37A  Laurie Wolfe*  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
42A  Ned Carroll  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
42B  Ginny Klevorn  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
47A  Amanda Hemmingsen-Jaeger  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
47B  Ethan Cha  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
60B  Mohamud Noor  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
61A  Katie Jones  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
62A  Aisha Gomez  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
64B  Dave Pinto  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
65B  Maria Isa Perez-Vega  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
66A  Leigh Finke  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
66B  Athena Hollins  Democratic-Farmer-Labor  
67A  Liz Lee  Democratic-Farmer-Labor 
   
Senate 45  Ann M. Johnson Stewart  Democratic-Farmer-Labor 

About Education Minnesota
Education Minnesota is the voice for professional educators and students. Education Minnesota’s members include teachers and education support professionals in Minnesota’s public school districts, faculty members at Minnesota’s community and technical colleges and University of Minnesota campuses in Duluth and Crookston, retired educators and student teachers. Education Minnesota is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, National Education Association and AFL-CIO.

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