Lessons from ‘Man Up and Dress Up,’ a book Kendall Qualls tried and brilliantly failed to Kickstart

This week, Republican medical technology executive Kendall Qualls of Medina joined the political fray by announcing his congressional campaign. He’s challenging first-term Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips, and if elected, he’d be Minnesota’s first black Republican in Congress.

“I didn’t have a life of privilege,” his campaign website reads. “I grew up in poverty, and success came the old-fashioned way: I had to earn it.” He promised, if elected, to put “partisan game playing” aside and “focus on the issues that matter.”

So far, he hasn’t shared much information on the issues themselves. In interviews, he’s said he supports (and voted for) President Donald Trump and agrees with his policies, but that “his style is not my style.”

View the complete July 31 article by Hannah Jones on The CityPages website here.