When looking for candidates, we get to know people actively engaged in their communities. Ideal candidates network broadly, share our values, and work hard to make them reality. Candidates don’t need to have lots of money, but they should be rich in relationships.

Every election year, we hold a district-wide convention that brings together delegates from all 32 precincts in our district. The convention works on the state party platform, approves a local party constitution, elects district executive committee directors, and chooses delegates to represent the district for conventions at the congressional district and state levels. The convention also decides which candidates to endorse for the legislature. 

When we endorse someone for an office, it means the state party, with all its resources, gets behind the candidates we choose. That is a tremendous advantage, and candidates work hard to earn that support.

We support our endorsed candidates by 

• giving them money to fund their campaigns, 

• introducing them to our neighbors, families and friends, 

• putting signs on our property so people get familiar with who is running for what offices,

• going door to door to share literature, listen to what people think is important from their government, and learn what they think about the candidates who are running, 

• promoting them on our social media,

• helping our candidates’ supporters vote, either in person or by absentee ballot

• celebrating afterwards!

The people we elect work for us and the values we share:

• equal opportunity

• personal liberty

• human rights

• economic fairness

• a healthy environment that lasts

Sometimes in the pressure cooker of the legislature, elected officials don’t fulfill the campaign promises they made to voters. We don’t have term limits in Minnesota, so we use elections to hold them accountable. Town halls and other community events are ways we encourage those we elect to have important conversations, and they have a duty to participate.