Be the Change- Lower costs. Clean government. Land, water, and freedom. Check my work.
Families are paying more for rent, groceries, child care, and health care. Rural towns are fighting to keep hospitals, ambulances, and nursing homes open. Farm families test their wells because clean water is not promised. People wait too long for help from systems built to serve them.
At the same time, Washington has become dangerous to the people Minnesota is supposed to protect. Operation Metro Surge brought a show of force into our communities. Workers missed paychecks. Families missed appointments. Parents were afraid to leave home. That is not safety. That is fear and harm. And it is not over. The Trump administration is putting billions more behind immigration enforcement, and federal fights over Medicaid and SNAP show that food and health care can be threatened too. We need a governor who draws a clear line: Minnesota's hands do Minnesota's work.
And to instill trust in our government to lower costs and protect our neighbors- we have to push for a clean government. Fraud is real. But the answer is not cruelty, and not punishing poor families or immigrants. The answer is clean government with real enforcement, accountability without scapegoating, and a fraud watchdog pointed up at the providers and powerful who steal wages, double bill hours, and rig contracts.
Kobey Layne and Paul Ference are the answer. Their ticket leads with three fights.
Lower costs. Clean government. Land, water, freedom. Check my work.
First, lower what you pay. More homes. Rent that stops outrunning paychecks. Lower medicine and medical costs. Rural hospitals that stay open. Utility regulators who answer to you instead of automatically profiting the corporations. Your monthly budget is the report card.
Second: Clean government- make this office answer to you. A Day One ethics order, a ban on insider stock trading, public conflicts of interest statements, protected whistleblowers, and a public dashboard with names, backlogs, and deadlines are visible to everyone.
Third, protect your land, water, and freedom. Protecting the Boundary Waters. Cleaning drinking water by beginning work clearing out nitrates from rural farm wells because no family should fear the water from their own tap. Protecting the Right to Choose- without the government interfering between you and your doctor. Welcoming and protecting our new LGBTQ+ neighbors. Being good neighbors with our Immigrant communities.
The ticket
Raised in Walker, Minnesota, Kobey learned what public power means by helping her town fight back and win. Now she's running for governor on a promise you can check — with her running mate, Paul.
The plan
Not a vision statement — a specific, numbered list of things Kobey will do in the first hundred days as governor. Dates, deadlines, and deliverables. Check her work.
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