Minnesota District 3

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Minnesota Senators

Tina Smith
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Tina Smith has been an incumbent since 2018. Her LCV scorecard rank is 100%. 

As a member of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, Smith emphasizes the importance of fighting against the current administration’s environmental rollbacks. With a perfect voting record, she has proven the environment to be her focus. Smith has also partnered with Senator Klobuchar to secure $3 million of funding for the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System, a $40,0000 grant from the EPA for water quality monitoring in Grand Portage, and a $1.3 million grant for Great Lakes Restoration. She has been a strong advocate for clean energy, and is a member of the Senate Democrat’s Special Committee on the Climate Crisis. The Farm Bill also gives funding for clean energy projects in agriculture, an addition that Smith worked hard for. Smith also introduced the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2019, which was meant to bring the electricity sector to net zero emissions by 2050 and encourage more zero-emissions products. 

Smith has made some great strides in sustainability in the political sphere, and we think she should be able to continue her good work.


Paula Overby
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Paula Overby is a Technology Analyst. 

Overby supports renewable energy usage and reprimands our lack of government action in reducing fossil fuel usage. She believes that refusing to invest in renewable energy is disadvantageous towards our economy, at a time when renewable energy is being acquired and searched for globally. Overby advocates for energy policy focused on sustainable technologies and research into energy conservation in order to successfully face global warming. She is also against sulfide mining in Minnesota, instead advocating for long-term clean energy development.


Bob Carney
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Bob “Again” Carney is a Non-Profit Consultant.

Carney recently patented an invention to regulate sunlight reaching earth, which was designed to be both a solution to global warming and a way to provide less expensive solar energy, weather management, and solar powered aircraft and space launches. He plans on reviewing the elements of his invention to make sure it is scientifically sound, and says it should be implemented regardless of the truth of climate change. Carney’s invention is meant to improve on an idea by Dr. Roger Angel, by putting clouds of trillions of giant tethered mirrors at Lagrange Point One between earth and the sun. He does not seem to have a stance on climate change, and believes it may or may not be real.


Steve Carlson
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Steve Carlson is a Business Consultant. 

Carlson only supports government funding for renewable energy projects that resell the energy to the marketplace, and he does not think it should regulate greenhouse gas emissions. He further believes that states should take care of their own environments instead of government regulations, and he does not support cap and trade regulations. He also said, in an interview in 2018, that he believes we need to study climate change’s impact on different sectors of our society, but he agrees with the current administration about pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement and says we shouldn’t put our economy under the control of the United Nations.


Ahmad Hassan
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Ahmad Hassan is a Real Estate Broker & Texas Resident

Hassan does not have any environmental stances online. We would love to know about his environmental plans!


Christopher Seymore
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Aside from the creation of a Jobs Bill to help aspects of society such as the environment, Seymore does not have any environmental stances out. We would love to know about his environmental plans!


Cynthia Gail
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Cynthia Gail was a 2016 State Senate Candidate. 

Gail does not have any environmental stances online. We would love to know about his environmental plans!


James Reibestein
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James Reibestein was a City Council Candidate

Reibestein does not have any environmental stances online. We would love to know about his environmental plans!


Jason Lewis
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Jason Lewis is an Ex-Congressman & Ex-Radio Show Host.

Lewis does not have any environmental stances online. We would love to know about his environmental plans!


Josh Ondich
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Josh Ondich is a retail worker. 

Ondich does not have any environmental stances online. We would love to know about his environmental plans!


Kevin O’Connor
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Kevin O’Connor is a Marijuana Legalization Activist. 

O’Connor doesn’t have a platform outside of hemp that we can find. However, hemp is a very useful plant that, if grown and harvested sustainably, can have a big impact on construction product production and consumption.


Oliver Steinberg
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Oliver Steinberg is the Grassroots State Party Co-Founder & Marijuana Legalization Activist

Steinberg doesn’t have a platform outside of hemp that we can find. However, hemp is a very useful plant that, if grown and harvested sustainably, can have a big impact on construction product production and consumption.


District 3 Representatives

Dean Phillips
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Dean Phillips (campaign site) is the current representative of District 3. Dean has a 97% LCV score.

Dean supports rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. He also strongly supports the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act to put a price on carbon to reduce emissions through a market-based approach. He also wants to extend the federal tax credit on solar energy, which is set to expire in 2021, and update building codes to make buildings more energy efficient.


Leslie Davis
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Leslie Davis is an environmental activist, businessman, and army veteran.

Davis is a member of Earth Protector, which aims to help with environmental problems. However, much of what they believe is pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, such as chemtrails and the Buteyko breathing method. Davis also supports some causes which would increase pollution, such as ending fuel taxes. While we applaud Davis’s Earth Protector victories in a number of anti-pollution areas, we cannot recommend him very strongly given the inconsistent and unscientific approach he takes.


Kendall Qualls
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Kendall Qualls is a Healthcare Technology Executive and Army Veteran.

Qualls does not have any information available about his environmental policies


Cole Young
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Cole Young is a retail store employee running on a campaign to help with young voters’ issues.

Young does not have any information available about his environmental policies.