The win expanded the GOP's narrow majority in the chamber and ended more than two decades of representation in the district by Democrats and members of the Lourey family. Jason Rarick, Republican candidate for State Senate in the SD11 special election, spoke with Lori Cervenka and her daughters Hannah and Casey, at a bingo fundraiser in Sturgeon Lake ahead of Tuesday's election. Republican Jason Rarick won a hotly contested special election for a Minnesota Senate seat Tuesday, expanding the GOP’s narrow majority in the chamber. Rarick, a state representative from Pine City, defeated Democrat Stu Lourey 53 percent to 45...