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Jeremy Peichel
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Jeremy Peichel (Libertarian Party) ran for election to the Minnesota State Senate to represent District 66. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Peichel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jeremy Peichel was born in South Carolina.[1] Peichel's professional experience includes working as an analyst. He served in the U.S. Army National Guard from 2001 to 2010. Peichel earned a bachelor's degree from Buena Vista University in 2009 and a graduate degree from the University of Maryland - College Park in 2011.[2]
Elections
2022
See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for Minnesota State Senate District 66
Clare Oumou Verbeten defeated Mikki Murray and Jeremy Peichel in the general election for Minnesota State Senate District 66 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Clare Oumou Verbeten (D)  | 78.4 | 23,987 |
| Mikki Murray (R) | 18.0 | 5,522 | ||
 | Jeremy Peichel (L) | 3.5 | 1,061 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 23 | ||
| Total votes: 30,593 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Clare Oumou Verbeten advanced from the Democratic primary for Minnesota State Senate District 66.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Mikki Murray advanced from the Republican primary for Minnesota State Senate District 66.
Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jeremy Peichel completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Peichel's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I’m a Conservation Biologist, Policy Analyst who has managed environmental policy and sustainable development for Local, State, Federal Governments. My career of service began at 17 with the Minnesota Army National Guard where I achieved the rank of SGT/E5 and deployed with 1st BCT to Iraq in 2005-2007. I worked for the USDA Forest Service on a prestigious fellowship and now use my MS and MPP degrees to reimagine local government operations through my own small business. I am running for Senate to solve problems and bring active representation to the legislature. I have grown tired of seeing good people become politicians, who are then more focused on fighting today's enemy and holding on to power instead of representing our community. I would bring an ethic of service with candor and empathy that seems to be lacking. As a Libertarian, my presence alone would be enough to disrupt the status quo of bickering and bring productivity through a third-party presence.
- Reform ballot access to expand choices on election day and enact ranked-choice voting to add to our vote vocabulary.
- Reform the police state by ending slavery, ending arming police for war, decriminalizing victimless crimes, ending public servant immunity, and much more.
- Free the housing market to densify and diversify, adding housing capacity and affordability classes to meet the growing demand, end slumlord management, contain rent and house costs.
I am passionate about environmental and transportation policy, with particular interests in parks, trails, and natural resource conservation. I serve on two commissions: Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources and the Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission. Those commissions provide me the opportunity to engage my interest in regional conservation activity and shaping the open space for our future residents. I also enjoying working on education policy and every economic problem. Where there are data, I am likely to be passionate about that.
I look up to incredible people who have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. I served, and I am pretty sure I couldn't imagine being even remotely as courageous as someone like Roy Benavidez. The stories of their courage, grit, and selfless service are unbelievable. Ordinary people can be driven to achieve extraordinary feats, and I would love to have a fraction of his, and other American Heroes commitment to each other. I started reading Medal of Honor citations in basic training and have tried to keep checking in to learn more about the soldiers who came before me and the proud legacy of service to my state and my country.
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher and Ecological Economics by Herman Daly.
Candor, empathy, and a deep commitment to selfless service. Recognizing that people are capable decision makers, we should trust them to make their best life choices. To the greatest extent possible, seek to solve problems at the lowest level, without automatically seeking to legislate a government solution to a civil or private problem.
I think I remember the Challenger explosion, which seems nuts since I was not even 2. Memory is funny like that because I have heard the stories of where we were (living in Florida while my dad was doing Navy stuff out of Cape Canaveral). Maybe it is just those stories that have made a memory. The next big historical event was the Gulf War in 1991, because we were living in Charleston and my dad was out to sea. I remember being 6, watching Peter Jennings on World News Tonight and asking my mom if that was where dad was, it wasn't where he was...probably. Submariners never really tell you where they are/go when they are underwater, sort of generic theater level directions like, I was in the Atlantic.
I worked at Menards in Burnsville on the Building Materials desk. I was there for almost two years, but fell short because I was heading out to basic training. It was a fun job that had me moving bags of water softener salt one minute to helping someone design and build their own deck or gazebo the next. I had to carry a box cutter in a belt holster to restock on a moment's notice, and a dust rag because if you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean.
The ideal relationship is one of continuous checks, where the two are frequently discussing the institutional roles and how they are making our State the best place to live, work, and play. There should necessarily be some difference of opinion since our legislators are all working to better the state, but are tied to a sub-geography of their district. The Governor is representative of the whole state.
Climate change. As a place of refuge from the worst impacts of climate change, our bountiful resources, including water, productive farmland, and moderate temperatures will be coveted by people living elsewhere. We should be prepared to welcome them to our slice of paradise and ensure we are ready for the increased diversity and system demands that climate change, and especially climate refugees will place on our environment and build infrastructure.
It would be great to reduce the size and scope of our legislature. Our representatives are just half of the senate geography. We should just pick one size standard and make that the only chamber, whether senate or house.
No more beneficial than any other experience, and maybe even a slight hindrance. Our state would be best served by the highest diversity in legislator life experience to maximize our access to new and excellent ways of doing things. The more people have worked in the system, the less familiar they are with how the non-system world works. It just makes good problem solving sense to stack the deck in our favor by having the greatest diversity of experience at the top of our representative government.
Yes, you should build relationships with everyone you can at all times. Kindness and empathy are how we build our best society, and that is especially important when the other people are your coworkers. All legislators are on the same team to do their best work for the people of Minnesota, in accordance with the oath of office they take. If they fail to build relationships because they find it better to fundraise and stay elected through adversarial relations, they will fail to achieve their goals, and we will all be worse off for it.
I like compactness as a geographic measure. Ideally we would be able to just draw circles, but we should aim to keep districts as cohesive of neighborhoods and cities, and as small a perimeter as possible to maintain geographic districts that are fair. I would actually prefer that we use approval or ranked choice voting to select all representatives and senators as a single race, every two years, elected at-large. Then there are no artificial geographic boundaries that can be used to break up the state into advantageous or disadvantageous subregions. Math suggests this makes the most resilient system that is not prone to packing and cracking and cannot be gamed for privilege or advantage not already established in the drawing of state-level boundaries.
I would do well on environment and natural resources, transportation, energy, and veterans/military affairs. Those are what I know best, so my service would be most effective there.
I knew a little about Jim Ramstad and Paul Wellstone growing up, they seemed to get along well and understand what it means to lead with kindness and place service before self.
Not really. I want to be as helpful as possible, so if I think I could be effective in those offices I could serve. My preference would be to act for a term then move aside for another person to bring their ideas to the legislature. Politics is not a career or a calling, it is temporary volunteer service.
The legislature should not be deferring their legislative authority to make the laws to any other government body. I have seen school house rock, I know how this works.
Yes, I have practiced this as a citizen Commissioner appointed by the Governor for LCCMR and I would continue to do so as a Senator bringing a third-party perspective to a divided chamber. I would necessary become a representative of the politically moderate who just want to see some functionality, dignity, and respect.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
Current members of the Minnesota State Senate
Leadership
Senate President:Bobby Champion
Majority Leader:Erin Murphy
Minority Leader:Mark Johnson
Senators
District 1
Mark Johnson (R)
District 2
Steve Green (R)
District 3
Grant Hauschild (D)
District 4
Rob Kupec (D)
District 5
Paul Utke (R)
District 6
Keri Heintzeman (R)
District 7
District 8
Jen McEwen (D)
District 9
Jordan Rasmusson (R)
District 10
Nathan Wesenberg (R)
District 11
Jason Rarick (R)
District 12
Torrey Westrom (R)
District 13
Jeff Howe (R)
District 14
Aric Putnam (D)
District 15
Gary Dahms (R)
District 16
Andrew Lang (R)
District 17
Glenn Gruenhagen (R)
District 18
Nick Frentz (D)
District 19
John Jasinski (R)
District 20
Steve Drazkowski (R)
District 21
Bill Weber (R)
District 22
Rich Draheim (R)
District 23
Gene Dornink (R)
District 24
Carla Nelson (R)
District 25
Liz Boldon (D)
District 26
Jeremy Miller (R)
District 27
Andrew Mathews (R)
District 28
Mark Koran (R)
District 29
Vacant
District 30
Eric Lucero (R)
District 31
Calvin Bahr (R)
District 32
Michael Kreun (R)
District 33
Karin Housley (R)
District 34
John Hoffman (D)
District 35
Jim Abeler (R)
District 36
District 37
Warren Limmer (R)
District 38
Susan Pha (D)
District 39
District 40
John Marty (D)
District 41
Judy Seeberger (D)
District 42
Bonnie Westlin (D)
District 43
Ann Rest (D)
District 44
Tou Xiong (D)
District 45
Ann Stewart (D)
District 46
Ron Latz (D)
District 47
Vacant
District 48
Julia Coleman (R)
District 49
Steve Cwodzinski (D)
District 50
Alice Mann (D)
District 51
Melissa Wiklund (D)
District 52
Jim Carlson (D)
District 53
Matt Klein (D)
District 54
Eric Pratt (R)
District 55
Lindsey Port (D)
District 56
Erin Maye Quade (D)
District 57
Zach Duckworth (R)
District 58
Bill Lieske (R)
District 59
Bobby Champion (D)
District 60
Doron Clark (D)
District 61
Scott Dibble (D)
District 62
Omar Fateh (D)
District 63
Zaynab Mohamed (D)
District 64
Erin Murphy (D)
District 65
Sandra Pappas (D)
District 66
District 67
Foung Hawj (D)
Democratic Party (33)
Republican Party (32)
Vacancies (2)
