Meet your choices for State Representative:

Kari Rehrauer

Steve Pape

Addressing the skyrocketing cost of living

Kari Rehrauer is focused on helping working families keep more of their hard-earned money by fighting against corporate greed. She supports cracking down on corporate price gouging (1), capping prescription drug prices (2), and will work to ban surveillance pricing where companies use customers’ personal data to charge different prices for the same products.

Kari Rehrauer knows greedy corporations are to blame for many rising costs, and as our State Representative will be focused on holding those corporations accountable to ensure Minnesotans can afford the basics we rely on–like food, energy, and housing. She will work to make it easier to buy a home you can afford, and is committed to addressing skyrocketing home insurance costs and rising property taxes.

Steve Pape would join those who caved to pressure from pharmaceutical industry lobbyists, opposing capping costs on common, life-saving prescription drugs (3), forcing local hospitals to pay more for medicine (4), and forcing thousands of Minnesotans off of their health insurance. (5)

Steve Pape is running on a platform that calls for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations which could drive up local taxes and costs for working families. His party platform also calls for creating massive new sales taxes on everything we buy, including groceries, clothing, and prescription drugs. Their new sales taxes would be used to cut taxes for the wealthy and big corporations, shifting the burden to the rest of us. (6)

Preventing fraud and corruption

Kari Rehrauer is taking on fraud in Minnesota. She voted to establish an independent, non-partisan Office of Inspector General to investigate fraud across state government (7), hiring more prosecutors to catch Medicaid fraud (8), as well as increasing criminal penalties on anyone who commits fraud, regardless of their party. (9) Kari Rehrauer supports a top to bottom audit to fix systemic problems that led to fraud.

Minnesota Republicans like Steve Pape are letting Donald Trump and his billionaire friends get away with blatant acts of corruption–using the presidency to enrich himself and his family, cutting a deal to get immunity from IRS scrutiny, using our taxes to build himself a ballroom, and proposing a slush fund for the January 6th rioters. (10)

Fighting back against Federal overreach and costly tariffs

Kari Rehrauer worked to put an end to Operation Metro Surge, voting to prohibit ICE officers from wearing face coverings, preventing their entrance into schools and daycares without a warrant, and allowing Minnesotans to sue ICE for violating their civil rights. (11)

She will continue working to safeguard Minnesota from federal overreach–protecting Minnesotans’ access to healthcare, right to vote, and ability to make ends meet without the continuing costs associated with Trump’s tariffs and war in Iran.

Steve Pape would be a rubber stamp for Trump’s agenda and would join those who voted to give Minnesotans' personal voter data to the Trump administration and bring Trump's Medicaid cuts to Minnesota, which could take health insurance away from 140,000 seniors and people with disabilities. (12, 13, 14)

Steve Pape supported Donald Trump’s ICE crackdown and lawless tactics in Minnesota. (15) He has also praised the Trump administration’s tariff policies which have cost Minnesota businesses nearly $3.7 billion, increased the cost of living for everyone in our state, and crippled family farms. (16)

And you should also know…

Steve Pape is one of the most extreme candidates for State House this year. He wants to ban abortion in Minnesota with no exceptions, and said people who support abortion rights, “need to go die or leave the state.” (20)

Check the Facts:

  1. [HF 6, House Journal, 3/2/23]

  2. [SF 2744, House Journal, 5/17/23]

  3. [SF 2744, House Journal, 5/17/2023]

  4. [HF 3609, House Journal, 3/23/26]

  5. [SF 4612, House Journal, 5/7/2026]

  6. [mngop.com, accessed 7/28/26]

  7. [SF 856,House Journal, 5/7/2026]

  8. [HF 2354,House Journal, 5/16/2026]

  9. [HF 2115,House Journal, 5/19/2025]

  10. [NYTimes, 1/20/26]

  11. [HF 5149, House Journal, 5/17/26]

  12. [HF 4220 A5, House Journal,  5/6/26]

  13. [SF 4612,House Journal, 5/7/26]

  14. [www.mprnews.org, 4/17/26]

  15. [Pape Facebook.com, 1/26/26]

  16. [Pape Facebook.com, 2/12/26]

  17. [House Session Daily, 6/9/2025]

  18. [HF 4077, 3/9/2026]

  19. [HF16, House Journal, 6/9/25]

  20. [minnesotareformer.com, 9/9/24]

Protecting Minnesotans from secret, unregulated AI data center projects

Kari Rehrauer is working to prevent shady non-disclosure agreements that keep communities in the dark. (17, 18) She’ll continue fighting to protect our neighborhoods and natural resources from AI exploitation.

Steve Pape would join those who supported hundreds of millions of dollars in tax giveaways to bring AI data centers to Minnesota–despite residents’ concerns about the impact they could have on our utility rates and water. (19)