Kathy's Bio

Kathy and her husband Greg have lived in this district for 25 years. They have four sons and two daughter-in-laws. Dillon, 19, is a sophomore at UW Madison. Nate, 22, is working full time in the hospitality industry. Chris, 25, and wife Kendra, live in North Carolina. Chris left for Iraq in February for his second deployment. Nick, 28, and wife Amanda, live in Somerset, Wisconsin.  Nick is employed by Gillette Children's Hospital in St. Paul.   Because Nick was born with Spina Bifida and has had over 60 surgeries, Greg and Kathy are passionate about preserving our health care system, the best in the world.

Kathy and Greg have owned and operated a small business in the area for close to 30 years. They have been 20 year members of Stillwater Evangelical Free Church and have served actively in many leadership roles

Kathy has the utmost respect for the Constitution, both the United States and Minnesota, because they were written as guides for governing. Yet the current representation has chosen to ignore these founding principles.  We have too much government interference into the lives of our people and we are becoming less and less a free people as a result.  Taxation and spending has become too great a burden on the productive in our society.  This amount of spending is quickly becoming unsustainable, and we cannot continue to borrow trillions of dollars of our future generation’s money.

Kathy also stands strong in promoting free enterprise and the free markets in all areas, from health care to energy policy.  We must change Minnesota's current energy policies, which are based on unscientific proof of man-made global warming, and which will cost individual tax payers thousands of extra dollars in the near future for everything from gas for their cars and trucks to fuel for heating their homes and electricity for everything else.  We must stand strong, too, against any form of government health care.  Canada and Europe have shown without a doubt that government run health care will lead to a rapid decline in the health of the American people. 

Minnesota is a great place to live, raise a family and enjoy the environment.  We need to have policies which encourage economic growth and private sector jobs if we are to remain solvent.  As Minnesota sits at a near 50% government employee ratio, these jobs will be unsustainable as well if our government continues to spend itself into more and more debt.  The income producing jobs that private sector businesses create are what is needed to create economic growth and job security in this great state.