To the editor:
As mayors, we work every day with our residents to solve problems, and we do so in a nonpartisan way. We recognize that our communities do best when everyone works together to find solutions to our everyday challenges.
Minnesota also does best when all of us work together to make our state the finest it can be. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, that guiding principal has become lost. Issues like transportation funding, job creation, education, health care and housing have become partisan and regionalized. As a result, we all lose because of it and our state does not reach its full potential.
A divided Minnesota serves no one. For that reason and others, as mayors of Minnesota’s suburban communities, we are announcing our support for Tim Walz for Governor and Peggy Flanagan for Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. Tim Walz has a long history of working with Republicans, independents and others for the common good. Those who have worked with Tim describe him with words like unifier, consensus builder and leader.
We need Minnesota to get back on track. The prevailing divisions of rural versus urban, and Democrat versus Republican must end because it simply weakens all of us.
Citizens from across Minnesota just want the state to do its job, do it well and get things done for the betterment of us all – and for our state. Tim Walz and Peggy Flanagan are the leaders who will make that happen by restoring a sense of One Minnesota.
Mike Maguire, Eagan
Nancy Tyra-Lukens, Eden Prairie
Molly Cummings, Hopkins
Shep Harris, Golden Valley
Nora Slawik, Maplewood
James Hovland, Edina
Myron Bailey, Cottage Grove
Ted Kozlowski, Stillwater
Sun Thisweek, October 18, 2018