As a fourth generation Minnesotan, I was born in Blue Earth and raised on the family farm in Truman, where my father and grandfather were full-time farmers and, as partners, regularly worked 1,000 acres or more. I attended church and school at St. Paul’s Lutheran, played Truman Little League baseball, and have many lifetime friends from Truman.
The preservation of the family farm and our small town mainstreet economies is personal to me. It was on the farm where I learned the value of hard work while walking the bean fields, feeding the hogs, maintaining the property, and developing a firsthand understanding of farming and the business side of agriculture.
I’m running for Congress to serve as a Republican reinforcement in the U.S. House and to partner with President Trump and like-minded colleagues to keep moving our nation in the right direction – to Keep America Safe; Make America Prosperous; Defend our God-Given Rights and Sustain Agriculture and our Rural Southern Minnesota Way of Life.
I support the President’s legislative program and advocate for many conservative solutions. But here are three that are important to the residents who live in Minnesota’s First Congressional District, a predominantly agriculture-based economy.
1) Reform the federal regulatory process in order for Congress to reclaim regulatory authority and take power from federal bureaucrats. I support legislation like the REINS Act and sunset provisions to enable Congress to control the implementation of major federal regulations. 2) Repeal Obamacare and enact a host of free-market reforms to encourage nationwide health insurance competition, shopping for routine medical care backed up by catastrophic coverage for major medical conditions, measures to discourage frivolous lawsuits, prescription drug reform and Medicaid reform. 3) U.S. energy independence to fully implement an “all of the above” approach, combined with construction of the refineries, distribution points and pipelines needed to efficiently utilize America’s vast energy resources.
If elected, I will seek to serve on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee to help sustain farming and our rural economy. I believe the federal government should expand agricultural exports in order to create new markets for our farmers who efficiently produce the highest quality food products and help feed the world.
My Democrat opponent, Dan Feehan, has never lived in southern Minnesota, having spent the vast majority of his life in Milwaukee, Chicago, Boston and Washington D.C., before moving to Minnesota last year. Dan learned politics from the Obama machine and Rahm Emanual in Chicago before serving as a political appointee in the Obama department of defense.
Given this background, it’s no surprise that Dan’s positions advocating socialized medicine; unlimited immigration and open borders; gun control through his support of Australian-style gun confiscation; extreme global warming environmentalism and higher taxes are completely out-of-step with southern Minnesotans.
Make no mistake; America’s future is on the ballot this November. If Nancy Pelosi is returned to power by the election of my opponent, Dan Feehan and other liberal Democrats, Congress will engage in a single-minded effort to obstruct, resist and impeach the president, and roll back the gains our economy has made from passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
My approach is different. I will always stand strong in representing the views and values of southern Minnesotans because where we’re from, is who I am.
Please visit my website, www.JimHagedorn.org, to learn more, get a lawn sign, volunteer, contribute, or to contact me with your questions, comments, suggestions and ideas.
The First Congressional District seat is your voice in our nation’s Capitol and it would be an honor to serve on your behalf. I respectfully ask for your vote.