Business-Minded Leadership.
Accountable Government.
Accountability Over Agendas
Our state government should treat taxpayer dollars and government authority with discipline, demand measurable results, and focus on what actually helps Minnesota families rather than partisan agendas. I'm running for State Senate to bring accountability, transparency, and common-sense financial managment back to our state government.
Core Pillars
A common-sense approach to governance in Minnesota, focused on efficiency and transparency.
Fiscal Responsibility
Government should live within its means. I’ll fight to eliminate waste and prioritize what matters most.
Protect Taxpayers
No more blank checks. I’ll stand up for Plymouth families and oppose unnecessary tax increases.
Real Results
Less talk. More action. I’ll focus on measurable outcomes, not political agendas.
Meet Kevin Peterson
Kevin isn't a career politician. He's a family man and a local business leader who has spent two decades managing complex budgets and delivering efficiency in the private sector.
He believes that government should be run with the same accountability as a successful business. Kevin and his wife have called this district home for years, and he's ready to bring common-sense solutions to the Minnesota Senate.
Legislative Priorities
Tax Policy
- Cut Minnesota’s income tax rates
- Enact a fiscal rule to guide future tax and spending decisions
- Restrict property tax increases to population growth + inflation
- Place a limit on unfunded mandates
Housing
- End the Met Council’s artificial land rationing and scale back its housing planning role
- Relax or eliminate energy-saving rules that inflate costs (like the balanced mechanical ventilation mandate)
- Reform land use and zoning rules
- Streamline the permitting process
Energy
- Repeal the 100% renewable energy mandates
- End costly subsidies for conservation, small-scale renewables, EVs, and similar programs
- Reduce state taxes on electricity, natural gas, propane, gasoline, and diesel
- Repeal the ban on new nuclear power plants
- Reduce mandates and taxes on natural gas
Health Care
- Strengthen eligibility redeterminations and cross-check databases to remove ineligible enrollees
- Make price information user-friendly before patients get the bill
- Streamline pre-authorization
- Expand Right to Try laws to cover individualized investigational treatments
Child Care
- Ease hiring requirements for center staff
- Relax staff-child ratios and group size limits
- Enhance flexibility for family childcare providers
Issues at a Glance
- Environment & Boundary Waters: Our lakes, rivers, forests, and outdoor recreation are economic and quality-of-life assets. I support protecting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness from sulfide-ore copper-nickel mining in its watershed. I also support safe, responsible mining and resource development in appropriate locations elsewhere in the state, with strong environmental standards. False choices between “jobs or the environment” don’t serve Minnesota.
- Common-sense energy policy: Reliable, affordable energy that doesn’t drive up housing and family costs. I support repealing rigid 100% renewable mandates, reducing state-authorized taxes on electricity, natural gas, propane, gasoline, and diesel, and relaxing or eliminating energy-related rules (such as certain ventilation mandates) that inflate construction costs without proportional benefit. All-of-the-above approaches that keep costs down for commuting families while maintaining environmental standards.
- Education: I’m an education advocate focused on results. Minnesota’s schools have slipped from national leaders in test scores and ACT performance. Priorities include expanding high-quality career and technical education and registered apprenticeships, aligning programs with employer demand, and focusing resources on core academic outcomes rather than unfunded mandates or expansions that don’t improve learning. Strong schools and workforce pathways matter for families in District 42.
- Healthcare access & affordability: Government should make healthcare easier and more affordable, not more complicated. Specific steps include stronger eligibility redeterminations and database cross-checks to remove ineligible enrollees (moving them to marketplace plans where appropriate), user-friendly price information before bills arrive, streamlined pre-authorization, expanded Right-to-Try for individualized treatments, and broader program integrity measures to stop fraud so resources reach people who need them.
- Maternity leave & family supports: Affordability is the practical lever. High childcare and early-education costs force hard choices for working families. I support easing overly restrictive hiring requirements, staff-child ratios, and group-size limits where safe, plus greater flexibility for family childcare providers, to expand supply and lower costs. Broader family budget relief (tax and housing costs) also helps parents.
- Reproductive rights: As a father of daughters, women’s health matters to me. Minnesota already has strong statutory and judicial protections in place. My focus is practical governance—ensuring access to care, protecting maternal health, and avoiding turning every personal decision into a legislative battleground—while supporting reasonable safeguards consistent with community values. I’m happy to discuss specifics in more detail.
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Gun laws: Public safety first, with respect for the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. I prioritize enforcement, consequences for violent offenders, and measures that actually reduce crime over broad new restrictions that primarily affect responsible owners. Neighborhood safety is a core government responsibility.
Practical Outcomes Over Activism
Minnesota’s state government should focus on the basics that actually matter—public safety, education that delivers results, reliable infrastructure, and protecting taxpayers—rather than using state power to push ideological agendas or signal virtue.
That doesn’t mean ignoring real issues like the environment, public safety, or women’s health. It means judging proposals by whether they work, protect people, and treat taxpayer dollars with the same discipline a household or business applies to its own budget.
As a husband and father of three daughters, I take family and community concerns seriously. I just prefer practical outcomes over activism.