The campaign to choose Minnesota’s next governor begins at a historical moment when the state needs more than a change in leadership. Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth, the Republican nominee, and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the DFL nominee, bring substantial experience to a campaign that will present voters with competing political philosophies and vastly different ideas and impressions about this state’s direction. That is as it should be.
But Minnesota has reached a moment when experience, slogans and prior political victories are not enough. Between now and Election Day, Klobuchar and Demuth must make a rigorous case for the job: not simply why each believes they are better prepared for the moment, but rather how each intends to govern a state that often feels as if it’s stalled at a crossroads.
The article outlines eight topics they feel are important, including data centers…
Data centers
Communities considering these projects are seeing pushback, with citizens citing data centers’ enormous demands for electricity and water, as well as the cost of the infrastructure needed to support them. The next governor will need a clear strategy for capturing data centers’ economic potential while protecting ratepayers, natural resources and communities from bearing an outsized share of data centers’ infrastructure costs.