Meet the Candidate
Who Am I…
As a rural resident of 4B for nearly four years, a MN resident for fifteen, a husband and father of two, I work each day to better our region through commercial agricultural design. Additionally, as the Safety Director for my company, I carry the responsibility of ensuring the safety of others within the systems I design, as well as during their construction. I am proud to drive through the district and see how my designs have contributed to the growth of the ag industry and meeting the new requirements and standards of the industry.
My sixteen-year career has been built on a foundation of designing solutions for my clients that integrate improvements within their existing systems and budget. We achieved this while also meeting proper safety standards, with future growth always in mind. Frankly, as regulations bare down on the industry, we need someone in office with experience in working to find solutions to ensure policy is created with common sense in mind.
I recall vibrancy in our communities within 4B, and will advocate to bring that back. I am ready to put in the work to address the needs of our communities, while preserving the history we have within them. Working to restore the historical ballpark in Detroit Lakes is an excellent example of that history. To ensure our communities are vibrant, we need to improve access to healthcare, childcare, and senior care. We also need to provide employment opportunities in our rural communities by improving programs to support our small businesses.
Currently, we have challenges in our rural communities, such as quick access to medical care, housing and care for our seniors, reliable broad band services, and affordable childcare for working parents. We can address these issues.
Being an active legislator is the only way to ensure our needs are not neglected any more. I am not here to waste our time on motivating you with the issues we are all aware of. What I am here for, is to ask for your trust next November. I intend to actually show up to ensure that 4B and the rest of western Minnesota gets what we need for our rural towns and townships. That requires a strong attendance record in House sessions, as well as creating the conversations outside of session to focus on our needs so we can finally change the subjects of our meetings and talk about something more enjoyable and less dramatic during coffee and/or happy hour.
It’s time to revitalize our great townships by creating self-sustainability that will renew our local economies, that can provide for the greater part of Minnesota.
We can do this by having a legislator willing to advocate for local uplift, such as the project to rebuild the existing ballpark in Detroit Lakes. Local projects help create ways to subsidize small businesses, to update and upgrade home and business properties to our current times. We can correct this by taking advantage of recently passed programs in both the MN Senate and House, as well as in Washington.
We have made strides in times of stagnation, but we must continue to ensure that those strides are more successful than their initial intent. By supporting me, we can move forward to supporting our great side of this progressive state.
PREPARED AND PAID FOR BY, THE THADDEUS LAUGISCH FOR MN HOUSE 4B COMMITTEE
P.O. BOX 1204- MOORHEAD, MN 56561
Thaddeus Laugisch for MN House 4B 