Lisa Demuth

Her campaign website says she would cut state income taxes for families by reducing the two lowest tax brackets.^7,8

1. Add or raise taxes on the highest incomes (for example, a tax on income over $1 million)
2. Keep current rates
3. Cut rates or move to a single flat rate
4. Phase out the state income tax

Her campaign website says she would direct state agencies to find $1 billion in savings and would push to require that state budget surpluses be returned to taxpayers.^7,8

1. Cut state spending and return the savings through tax cuts or rebates
2. Hold spending near current levels
3. Spend more on state services such as schools and health care

Her campaign website says she would provide $150 million in property tax cuts, let schools and local governments opt out of some unfunded state mandates, and return part of future surpluses as property tax rebates.⁸

Her campaign website says she would order unannounced site visits to recipients of program money such as child care assistance and Medicaid services, cross-check payments against people known to have committed fraud, bar providers credibly suspected of fraud from other programs, and suspend payments for suspected fraud.^9,10

Her campaign website says she would repeal Minnesota's longstanding ban on nuclear energy.⁷

Her campaign website says she would keep what it calls gender and racial ideology out of classrooms and would remove some state standards adopted under Governor Tim Walz, replacing them with evidence-based math and phonics-based reading instruction.^7,11

1. State limits on these topics in some or all grades, with notice to parents
2. No state limits on topics, but require notice to parents and let them opt their children out
3. Leave decisions to local school boards
4. No state limits on teaching these topics
5. Require schools to include these topics, such as ethnic studies or LGBTQ history

Her campaign website says she would opt Minnesota into the new federal education tax credit, which it says would fund scholarships for public, charter and private school students.¹¹

Her campaign website says she supports mandatory minimum prison sentences for repeat gun offenders and straw purchasers, and longer sentences with no early release for people who commit a third violent crime.^10,11

1. Reduce or end mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug crimes
2. Keep current mandatory minimums
3. Add or raise mandatory minimums, for example for selling fentanyl

Her campaign website says judges should be required to put defendants awaiting trial for a violent crime on electronic monitoring when no bail is ordered.¹⁰

Her campaign website says she would invest in public safety resources for cities and counties, increase funding for violent crime enforcement teams and officer training, and add incentives to recruit and keep police officers.^7,10

1. Increase police funding, for example to hire more officers
2. Keep funding near current levels
3. Shift some police funding to mental health, housing or other services

Her campaign website says she would sign an executive order to clear homeless camps and open-air drug markets on state land, help cities clear camps, and seek more state power to act when cities do not.¹⁰

1. Provide permanent housing first, without requiring treatment or sobriety beforehand
2. Provide housing that comes with requirements, such as treatment, sobriety or work
3. Enforce bans on public camping and move people into shelters or treatment, including court-ordered treatment for some

Her campaign website says she wants more competition and plan choices in health insurance, supports direct primary care and direct contracting, and would strengthen Minnesota's reinsurance program.⁷