About

Experience	Duration
Kava Construction Inc. Commercial AG General Contractor – Designer / Safety Director	Eighteen (18) years
DFL Clay County Unit – Outreach Officer	Four (4) Years
DFL Rural Caucus – Second term Executive Director	Four (4) Years
Dakota Horizon Girl Scouts – Volunteer	Fourteen (14) years
Creative Art Director of a former Church	Seven (7) years
Business Owner/Entrepreneur	Twelve (12) Years. Current

I am here to earn your trust to faithfully represent every voter as MN House District 4B’s Representative in the Minnesota State House. I will work to ensure House District 4B gets the resources needed for rural townships, towns, farmers, public schools, and small businesses to continue growing toward a strong future.

I want to work with you, my neighbors, to help ensure that all H4B communities have access to affordable healthcare services, reliable childcare, quality senior care, and increased employment opportunities by improving programs that support small businesses and create education opportunities.

I’ve gathered many experiences along the way, but what remains true is my relationship of 21 years to my spouse, Sharla. We raised two ‘spuds’ of our own, Rya(20) and Nevaeh (12) in north of Moorhead in the township of Kragnes where we also have a zoo of four-legged family members and even one without any legs.

After graduating from NDSCS in Wahpeton with an AAS degree in Architectural Drafting and Estimating, I worked to design agriculture facilities from Olivia, MN to Warren, MN and countless areas in North Dakota. I’ve learned to work within a budget by reallocating existing equipment to meet current demands. We can apply this drive for efficiency into our existing programs while also providing transparency throughout the process to ensure we aren’t unnecessarily spending our tax dollars. We need to work to meet our current demands, and I’ll personally work to create the conversations needed to build a sustainable path forward to strengthen our communities. With your support, I will apply my experiences to the programs we have, not to remove, but to keep the parts that work by reallocating our programs to meet the needs of today.

While designing was at the core of my career, I also created content and trained coworkers to meet OSHA regulations and understand and importance of safety in the workplace. My goal was to ensure each worker made it home safe. I also worked to navigate, implement, and even question the network of regulations associated with agribusiness, construction, and compliance. At times, it can genuinely feel like the excessive use of wording in our bills and legislature is made to confuse or distract on purpose.

Community building is another passion of mine. As an organizer of Extra Life events within the Children’s Miracle Network, I helped raise 35K annually between 2013 and 2018 for our Sanford Children’s Hospital. Learning the importance of giving back through donation, sharing knowledge, and even helping fulfill a wish through the Make-A-Wish Program is how we take care of each other as a community. I see these values in our communities and will work to ensure our services are available to us when we need them.

Along the way, I have developed myself as an established artist with work hanging throughout our region. I have had the opportunity for solo exhibitions and was featured in publications reflecting my work and philosophy on the subject.

Wouldn’t it be nice if our coffee and/or happy hour could be something more enjoyable and didn’t so easily devolve into a complaint session? Currently, we have challenges in our district. Being an active legislator is the only way to ensure our needs are not neglected anymore. 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 being present in House sessions, as well as creating conversations outside of session to find and implement effective solutions.

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 through educational opportunities for both our children and adults seeking a new path forward. We can help by creating ways to work with existing 4B businesses to help educate and for them to build their next generations of workers. We need funding to fix our roads and waterways. We need funding to provide educational opportunities both for our youth and for adults seeking new careers due to the effects of AI in the workplace. We need to invest in the people of Minnesota, because when we provide for each other, we all succeed. Our country has historically made great strides in providing opportunities for diverse groups within our communities. We all have in turn benefited from the contributions of those groups. We must continue to ensure that progress is protected, as well as work to restore areas that have been weakened by recent events, and ensure the rights of people any race or creed, no not go ignored. That justice and equality laid before us by our Federal and State Constituents, are upheld by all, and not just the few who know a friend or two.

Enough about me and my views, as we are a grassroots campaign, please feel free reach out and tell us your story!

We’d love to hear from you as we are running with your voice in mind.

PREPARED AND PAID FOR BY
THE THADDEUS LAUGISCH FOR MN HOUSE 4B COMMITTEE

3411 109th Ave. N. Moorhead, MN 56560
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