Another hat in the ring for the First District U-S House seat being vacated by Congressman Tim Walz: Joe Sullivan, a Mankato resident and attorney who works for a clean-energy non-profit, is seeking the D-F-L endorsement. Sullivan says Congress must build on Obamacare’s successes — among them a big increase in the number of Americans with insurance — and to deal with large premium increases he suggests “having a public option where people could buy into the public health care insurance pool — something along those lines.”
Sullivan says Congress must fully fund the Farm Bill to “make sure that we have fully-funded crop insurance and that the big programs in the Farm Bill are taken care of.” Four other Democrats and at least one Republican are in the race for U-S House in Minnesota’s First District.