The current Freeborn County incumbent U.S. congressman and Minnesota senator and representative must go. They have been part of the big-spending, big-government problem in Minnesota and the U.S.

Just consider: The young and minorities have lost the most in recent years, and they should want the most to replace the current U.S. Congress and Minnesota legislative majorities for their future.

Seniors have gotten no Social Security cost-of-living adjustment recently. State pensions, with stock market investments, have! (Tell that to Tim Walz.) Pension reform is needed.

A Minnesota state trooper in Orono or Ortonville earns the same. A high school history teacher in those towns may be paid very different from taxes: Why? Reform needed!

Education costs less in South Dakota, but if four counties were excluded their students would probably do the best in the U.S. The four counties have high rates of single parents and substances abuse. This is also true of big-spending, big-city school districts. Sober, responsible, two-parent families are the base for better students, not more money! We need to encourage sober, responsible marriage to improve education. And welfare needs!

Thirty-one billion current Minnesota state tax dollars seems enough to run Minnesota government with no new taxes. If we elect the reform team of Tom Emmer and Annette Meeks in the governor race we could make some change.

In Freeborn County we need Rich Murray (a financial planner) for the Minnesota House and Kathy Green, a Public Employees Retirement Association board and school board member, for the Minnesota Senate. We need them as part of a new reform Minnesota Legislature majority and Randy Demmer for the new reform U.S. Congress majority. Thanks for your help.

Tom Schleck

Albert Lea