Posted on 11/09/2022 7:28:22 PM PST by thegagline
It was early Wednesday morning when Leigh Finke returned home in St. Paul after the campaign victory party.
Representative-Elect Finke won 81% of the vote in the Minnesota House District 66A race.
“To have that many people come out, and that many people support a first-time trans candidate, it’s really humbling,” said Finke. “It’s really an honor, it’s really exciting.”
The 2023 legislative session will feature a historic class of LGTBQ Minnesotans. In addition to Finke becoming the state’s first transgender representative, Alicia Kozlowski of Duluth was elected as Minnesota’s first nonbinary legislator after winning House District 8B, according to the DFL LGTBQ Legislative Caucus.
In total, 12 incoming members of the Legislature identify as members of the LGTBQ community, seven of whom are persons of color, according to DFL leaders.
Yesterday it was like, ‘We’re going to be the first trans person in the Legislature — we’re going to carry a lot of representation burden.’ Today I feel a lot of representational power,” Finke said.
Finke is a first-time candidate for office who currently operates a video production business.
The historic night continued in Minnesota Senate races, as voters chose Erin Maye Quade, Clare Oumou Verbeten and Zaynab Mohamed, who will be the first Black women in state history to serve in that chamber.
*** “Throughout this campaign I talked about racial justice, building a community that’s safe for all of us, and how we have to do that together,” said Senator-elect Oumou Verbeten, who will represent parts of Ramsey County in the newly formed Senate District 66. ***
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It’s disgusting.
We are dealing with demons folks... find them, expose them and find the pressure points to get them removed from their positions.
Well, isn’t that spaacial! Bless her little heart! /S
Wow.
They misspelled 'millstones.'
Welcome to the three main counties of Minnesota: Sodom, Gomorrah, and Mogadishu...
The muslims are using satan and democrat progressives as their weapon to destroy the Christian world. And my how happy the democrat progs are happy to be used. They think the muslims will cut their heads off last. The muslims are playing the long game. They think in terms of 1000 years while the idiot nihilist progs only think to next week’s “new thing.”
Well just damn Duluth elected a nonbinary? DFL the dumb F’n liberal party for nothing
“Minnesota nice” extended to the voting booth.
Minnesota has become America’s cesspool. And the Farmer-Labor Party stood aside and let it happen.
Minnesota is all Blue. Time for good conservatives to move out of that commie state. It’ll go the way of California.
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