Rep. Nolan West, one of Minnesota’s weirdest Republicans, gets a challenger

Back when Blaine attorney Amanda Matchett was growing up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she remembers telling classmates she was going to be the first female president.

But it was only a few years ago she realized she and her neighbors deserved better representation. She was deeply affected by the killing of Philando Castile and the last presidential election. Then along came the “last straw” – Nolan West.

The Blaine Republican was elected to the Minnesota House that year, and managed to keep his seat by a hair in 2018. That’s despite his litany of record scratch-worthy Facebook posts, screenshotted and saved for posterity before he could hastily delete them during his first run for office.

View the complete October 18 article by Hannah Jones on the CityPages website here.