Stephen Doerr
Stephen Doerr (Republican Party) ran for election to the Minnesota House of Representatives to represent District 26A. He lost in the Republican primary on August 13, 2024.
Doerr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Stephen Doerr was born in Yankton, South Dakota. Doerr's career experience includes working as an educator. He earned a bachelor's degree from Saint Mary's University in 1999. Doerr has been affiliated with the Lions club, Knights of Columbus, NEA, MCCL, and NRA.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Minnesota House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A
Aaron Repinski defeated Sarah Kruger in the general election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Aaron Repinski (R) | 52.7 | 12,240 |
| Sarah Kruger (D) | 47.0 | 10,916 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 52 | ||
| Total votes: 23,208 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A
Sarah Kruger defeated Dwayne Voegeli in the Democratic primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Sarah Kruger | 52.0 | 2,162 | |
| Dwayne Voegeli | 48.0 | 1,998 | ||
| Total votes: 4,160 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A
Aaron Repinski defeated Stephen Doerr in the Republican primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A on August 13, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Aaron Repinski | 86.7 | 2,247 |
 | Stephen Doerr | 13.3 | 345 | |
| Total votes: 2,592 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2022
See also: Minnesota House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A
Incumbent Gene Pelowski Jr. defeated Stephen Doerr in the general election for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Gene Pelowski Jr. (D) | 55.0 | 9,456 |
| Stephen Doerr (R) | 44.8 | 7,704 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 19 | ||
| Total votes: 17,179 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Gene Pelowski Jr. advanced from the Democratic primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Stephen Doerr advanced from the Republican primary for Minnesota House of Representatives District 26A.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Stephen Doerr completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Doerr's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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As a High school teacher of 17+ years of service with Educational Administration degree and graduate studies in Science and Mathematics I am the best candidate to repair our public schools that are failing to address literacy! As a father of nine, farmer, OTR truck driver and teacher I know well the needs of the working class and am not bought off nor will I be!
Once in office I will join Steve Draz in the fight for Term Limits!- Freedom from excessive taxation! Removing the income taxes on Social Security benefits and repealing DFL taxes from 2023 and 2024 will benefit working families while stimulating the economy.
- Freedom as protected by our US bill of rights, namely the 1st and 2nd amendments, must be restored in Minnesota! I will fight for a citizen’s religious freedoms and rights to defend family and home! Our Law enforcement must be funded and protected again to restore Respect for Law and Order!
- Our public schools are failing with DEI and CRT placed above the needs for literacy, Math and Science!
As a highly trained and 17+ year experienced teacher I am prepared to repair our educational systems!
Literacy is our most important priority and will replace the social experiments now taking over our schools!
School choice to assure the highest quality education is a step one. Step two is to mandate removing all CRT and DEI interference with high quality Literacy programs for all students statewide! Our STEM program must begin by 1st grade to excite the students for Math and Science studies!
Albert started with nothing and worked as a farmer his entire life, in addition to a lifetime career at Froedtert Malt. Albert was kind, helpful and respectful to all. I had the pleasure to stay and harvest the crops while attending Cotter in Winona, MN that school year.
Farming has continued to be a lifestyle in which I desire all Minnesotans are knowledgable.
When I left home I worked at Prime Steak’N Cake washing dishes and overnights washing down the machinery at Altura Turkey Plant. This experience was less than a year as I began trucking Alfalfa from South Dakota to Minnesota and Wisconsin Dairy Farmers.
I continued farm work while going to college, but opened up time for night shifts at Winona area businesses like Fastenal, Auto assembly in Lewiston, Peerless chain and TDI. Much hard work has well prepared me to be the best Representative for the working class while I hold much respect for entrepreneurs, like Ken Oevering, Matt Renk, Robert Kierlin and Don Evanson, that risked their time and investment to create jobs for the rest of us.
Building Back Better, making Minnesota a working state is going to be rewarding to all, especially those elderly and disabled that should not need to beg and be paraded through the state capital to receive the benefits and help needed!
Abandonment of citizens, including Police officers, when rioting and burning of Minneapolis was the way of discourse in Minnesota must never be tolerated again, so laws must be repealed and limits to Police State must be established for all citizens to enjoy freedom in Minnesota while restoring respect for Law and Order.
Tips are a form of reward and merit pay that should not benefit the government until the worker decides where to spend their hard earned money. Our elderly and disabled need our help and we should not be forcing them to give up their money which was determined to be needed for them! I am disgusted by the current government as they force the disabled and their caregivers to parade their needs to the capital and in public forums! Just as a committee established pay and benefits based on inflation and other factors for the elected representatives, the elderly and disabled should benefit the same.
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2022
Stephen Doerr did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 5, 2024
