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Marty Seifert
Marty Seifert (b. April 23, 1972) was a Republican member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. He represented District 21A from 1996 to 2011. He was minority leader from 2006-2009 and majority whip from 2001-2006.
Seifert was a Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota in the 2014 elections. He formally entered the race on November 21, 2013.[1][2] He lost in the Republican primary on August 12, 2014. The general election took place on November 4, 2014.
Seifert was considered to be a front-runner in the 2010 gubernatorial race to succeed Tim Pawlenty.[3] However, he withdrew from the race to avoid a contentious GOP primary.[4]
Biography
Seifert is an admissions counselor at Southwest Minnesota State University. He has previously worked as a government/history teacher at Marshall Senior High School and a property manager.
Seifert is a member of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Lyon County Historical Society, Minnesota Education Association, and Sons of the American Legion.[5]
Committee assignments
Prior to leaving the house, he served on the following committees:
- Energy Finance and Policy Division
- Rules and Legislative Administration
- Transportation and Transit Policy and Oversight Division
Elections
2014
- See also: Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2014
Seifert ran for election as Governor of Minnesota.[6] Seifert lost the Republican nomination in the open primary election along with lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Pam Myhra. Mark Dayton (D) was first elected governor in 2010 and ran for a second term in 2014.[7][8]
The general election took place on November 4, 2014.
Results
Primary
| Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, Republican Primary, 2014 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
 Jeff Johnson/Bill Kuisle |
30.3% | 55,836 | ||
| Kurt Zellers/Dean Simpson | 23.9% | 44,046 | ||
| Marty Seifert/Pam Myhra | 21.1% | 38,851 | ||
| Scott Honour/Karin Housley | 20.8% | 38,377 | ||
| Merrill Anderson/Mark Anderson | 3.8% | 7,000 | ||
| Total Votes | 184,110 | |||
| Election results via Minnesota Secretary of State. | ||||
2010
Seifert chose not to run in the 2010 election. Instead, he made an unsuccessful run for Minnesota Governor. Seifert withdrew from the race to avoid a contentious GOP primary.[9]
2008
On November 4, 2008, Marty Seifert won election to the District 21A Seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives, defeating Allen Kruse. [10]
Marty Seifert raised $60,635 for his campaign.[11]
| Minnesota House of Representatives, District 21A (2008) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Votes | Percent | ||
| Marty Seifert (R)
|
11,915 | 67.05% | ||
| Allen Kruse (DFL) | 5,827 | 32.79% | ||
| Write-In | 28 | 0.16% | ||
Campaign themes
2014
Seifert's campaign website listed the following themes for the 2014 race:
| “ |
Taxes and Regulation Reducing taxes and the equivalent regulatory burden on the average Minnesotan. Because of increases in taxes and health care costs, as well as other government-imposed regulations, many Minnesotans have seen their net discretionary income fall backward. A Seifert administration will allow the average Minnesotan to keep more of what they earn. Size of Government Abolishment of three cabinet departments, in addition to complete elimination of the Metropolitan Council. Over a one-year period, the functions no longer required will be eliminated and needed functions will be transferred to local units of government or other cabinet departments. The departments will include Health, Labor & Industry and Corrections. Functions maintained will chiefly be folded into Human Services, Commerce and Public Safety. All other departments will be asked to reduce their budgets by a minimum of 7%. Part of the regulatory reform to save consumers’ costs will be complete repeal of the Next Generation Energy Act. Second Amendment Marty Seifert is a solid supporter of the 2nd Amendment and believes it is a fundamental right. Seifert received an "A" rating from the NRA as a legislator and he is a member of the NRA. Growing up on the family farm, responsible firearm use was part of his way of life. Seifert opposes any new gun control and would swiftly veto any bill that contained any gun control. Seifert opposes any registration or magazine limits and supports reciprocity for Right to Carry and the Castle Doctrine. He also supports current law on state preemption that disallows any local government from enacting gun control. Sanctity of Life Marty Seifert and Rep. Pam Myhra are strong Pro-Life advocates. Seifert would sign into law bills to protect life, including: Fetal Pain legislation, ending taxpayer funding of abortion, and ending "webcam" abortions. As a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Seifert voted for Pro-Life bills 100% of the time. He has worked with Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life (MCCL) to pass Pro-Life legislation. Seifert is also a strong supporter of Minnesota's Anti-Assisted Suicide laws. Transportation Improve our transportation system. This will include halting the construction of the $1.5 billion Southwest Light Rail Transit line and a better focus on expansion and improvement of roads & bridges in all of Minnesota. The rail line has not passed a cost-benefit analysis, is very controversial and will permanently degrade the environment along Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis. Bus rapid transit has proven to be a more cost effective and flexible transit model than an expensive and fixed rail line. Roads and bridges are used by over 90% of our state’s population and need to be the major focus for transportation. Public Safety Stopping any attempt to release dangerous sex offenders into our community. The long-term goal will be to restructure sentencing for those we are mad at and aim resources for imprisonment of those we are afraid of. Giving “treatment” to people who have raped sixty times for over $135,000 per year does not make sense when they should be incarcerated permanently for less than $38,000 per year. Education Reform the public education system to make it the best in the country. Article XIII of the Minnesota Constitution requires a uniform system of public schools. Marty takes that responsibility seriously. He will ask the legislature to put a lid on any erosion of teacher-student instruction contact time that has taken place over the past few decades. Student success depends on quality academic instruction and the time for that instruction to take place. He will also seek to give parents more choices in which to send their children to schools that succeed. Minnesota's educational curriculum is best developed by parents, teachers, school board members and our communities, not federal bureaucrats. Seifert strongly oppose No Child Left Behind and any involvement in "Common Core" federal curriculum schemes. Health Care Obamacare and Mark Dayton’s full implementation of Obamacare is hurting Minnesota families through more expensive care and loss of coverage. 280,000 Minnesotans lost their plan or had to change plans because of Obamacare. Marty Seifert believes it is important to change the board members of MNsure and do everything possible to increase choice and competition in the state to lower costs, including allowing more companies to offer insurance here. |
” |
| —Marty Seifert's campaign website, (2014) | ||
Campaign finance summary
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2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
| Marty Seifert | |
| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | District-level delegate |
| Congressional district: | 7 |
| State: | Minnesota |
| Bound to: | Unknown |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
Seifert was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Minnesota.[14] In the Minnesota Republican caucuses on March 1, 2016, Marco Rubio won 17 delegates, Ted Cruz won 13, and Donald Trump won eight. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Seifert was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Minnesota’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[15]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Minnesota to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and the state convention in May 2016. Delegates from Minnesota were bound to the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention unless their candidate "withdrew" from the race prior to the convention.
Minnesota caucus results
- See also: Presidential election in Minnesota, 2016
| Minnesota Republican Caucus, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Donald Trump | 21.4% | 24,473 | 8 | |
| Marco Rubio |
36.2% | 41,397 | 17 | |
| Ted Cruz | 29% | 33,181 | 13 | |
| John Kasich | 5.7% | 6,565 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 7.4% | 8,422 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.2% | 207 | 0 | |
| Totals | 114,245 | 38 | ||
| Source: Minnesota Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Minnesota had 38 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 24 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's eight congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 10 percent of the vote in a district in order to be eligible to receive any of that district's delegates.[16][17]
Of the remaining 14 delegates, 11 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 10 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 85 percent of the statewide caucus vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large and district-level delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[16][17]
Personal
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Seifert is married and has two children.
Recent news
This section links to a Google news search for the term Marty + Seifert + Governor + Minnesota
See also
External links
- Marty Seifert's campaign website
- Minnesota House of Representatives - Rep. Seifert
- Legislative Profile from Project Vote Smart
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
- Campaign Contributions: 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996
- Marty Seifert on Facebook
- Marty Seifert on Twitter
- Marty Seifert on LinkedIn
Footnotes
- ↑ Star-Tribune, "Seifert, newest GOP entrant in Minnesota governor's race, taking 2nd shot at elusive office," November 21, 2013
- ↑ Minn Post, "Marty Seifert will seek GOP endorsement for governor," November 12, 2013
- ↑ Rasmussen Reports, "2010 Minnesota Governor Primary," November 16, 2009
- ↑ The Minnesota Daily, "GOP endorses Emmer for governor," April 4, 2010
- ↑ Project Vote Smart - Rep. Seifert
- ↑ Duluth News-Tribune, "Marty Seifert announces candidacy for Minnesota governor," November 21, 2013 (dead link)
- ↑ The Star Tribune, "Republican Scott Honour jumps into governor's race," April 24, 2013
- ↑ Star Tribune, Seifert selects Myhra as running mate, February 27, 2014
- ↑ The Minnesota Daily, "GOP endorses Emmer for governor," April 4, 2010
- ↑ 2008 General Election Results
- ↑ Follow the Money's report on Steifert's 2008 campaign contributions
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Seifert for Governor, "Issues," accessed August 7, 2014
- ↑ MN GOP, "National Delegates and Alternates," accessed June 20, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by - |
Minnesota State House District 21A 1996–2011 |
Succeeded by Chris Swedzinski (R) |
