Tiffini Flynn Forslund

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Tiffini Flynn Forslund

Democratic Party

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August 11, 2020

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Janesville, Wis.

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Tiffini Flynn Forslund (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Minnesota's 4th Congressional District. She lost in the Democratic primary on August 11, 2020.

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Biography

Tiffini Flynn Forslund was born in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Elections

2020

See also: Minnesota's 4th Congressional District election, 2020

Minnesota's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 11 Democratic primary)

Minnesota's 4th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 11 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Minnesota District 4

Incumbent Betty McCollum defeated Gene Rechtzigel and Susan Pendergast Sindt in the general election for U.S. House Minnesota District 4 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Betty McCollum (D)	63.2	245,813
		Gene Rechtzigel (R)	29.0	112,730
		Susan Pendergast Sindt (Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota)	7.6	29,537
		Other/Write-in votes	0.3	1,034

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 389,114
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 4

Incumbent Betty McCollum defeated Alberder Gillespie, Tiffini Flynn Forslund, David Sandbeck, and Reid Rossell in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 4 on August 11, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Betty McCollum	84.0	80,048
	Submit photo	Alberder Gillespie	6.6	6,327
		Tiffini Flynn Forslund	4.5	4,312
		David Sandbeck	3.6	3,425
	Submit photo	Reid Rossell	1.2	1,154

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 95,266 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 4

Gene Rechtzigel defeated Sia Lo in the Republican primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 4 on August 11, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Gene Rechtzigel	50.9	9,182
	Submit photo	Sia Lo	49.1	8,866

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 18,048 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Travis Ekbom (R)

Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota primary election

Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 4

Susan Pendergast Sindt advanced from the Grassroots-Legalize Cannabis Party of Minnesota primary for U.S. House Minnesota District 4 on August 11, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Susan Pendergast Sindt	100.0	618

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 618 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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Campaign themes

2020

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

I am running for congress because the people of the 4th district deserve the opportunity to elect a candidate who knows what it means to be an activist in our community. I stand firm and am a true fighter for criminal justice reform and education reform.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Trauma Informed Politics
• Bureaucratic Fact Checking
• Equitable Policy

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Gun Reform, Criminal Justice Reform, Education Reform, Health Care for All, Legalization of Marijuana, ERA, Family Court and CPS Reform, Reproductive Rights and Housing with Economic Reforms.

All reforms need to fact checked, trauma informed and is it equitable and inclusive intersectionally for the Common Good of all citizens.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

I often state that in hindsite and reflection I may have become a socialogist. People and their outcomes fascinate me and this is probably why trauma informed practice is so important to me.

I would like to follow in Angela Davis's footsteps. She was on the ground, traveled and studied other governments around the world. She was extremely intelligent and motivated the masses wherever she was located. I have read her publications and plan to be an author one day.

When Angela Davis was incarcerated over the Black Panthers Gun incident it was activism from around the world even Germany that helped gain her freedom. Sadly she wrote about the incarceration system back then in the 60's and we still have this fight in 2020.

How do you create an exasberated justice system that creates jobs for the privileged and devastation for the victims mostly of color, black, indigenous and Latinx. It sends societies, neighborhoods and zip codes further apart then creating cohesiveness. Let's have problem oriented policing with trauma informed practice that build our communities and our citizens. Just like Angela Davis built communities all over the world.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

First historical event was my dad and mom getting married in 1965, two years before Love vs Virginia passed federally allowing interracial marriage to happen legally. Racial tension and ambiguity has created systemic racism in most parts of the world. We are currently turning the tide towards more unity and humanity after the murder of George Floyd.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

My very first job was at the age of 9 years old. I had been wanting to earn money for quite sometime because my mother would tell me that is how I needed to buy toys and things that I wanted. I began asking at local neighborhood businesses with no luck.

I had already been selling popcorn and lemonade from a wagon around the neighborhood and at my mom's rummage sales.

I convinced Nancy a neighbor who was 2 years older than me to knock on doors to rake leaves. Then we kept knocking on doors and finally this women sure with whole smile face.

We kept knocking on doors until we came to Peggy Staats's house an at home mom of five kids and her husband worked at Trane Company and I cleaned their house doing laundry, dishes, cooking, setting up for parties and wedding etiquette. Mrs. Staats connected me to an elderly women who suffered from Muscular Distrophy who was in a wheelchair. I worked for them 2 years until my family moved back to Beloit, Wisconsin.

I saved my money and would deposit the cash into my savings account at Coulee State Bank weekly. I pretty sure I earned $2.00 an hour and many lifelong skills.

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

The United States greatest challenge as a nation is how do we begin to heal and build after President Trump, George Floyd and Covid-19. Society as we know it is unraveling and building new Infrastructures for the common good.

All change comes through conflict and Minnesota was warned years ago that diversity and opportunity needed to be addressed here. We have now hit our tipping point something that I did not think would happen in my lifetime. I am able to see all the hard work day in and day out come to fruition.

I look forward to mending, sewing, weaving or whatever it takes to recreate either a new authentic fabric that works for everyone inclusively. Who knows maybe we come up with a new cotton blend that celebrates and give reparations to those who labored it at all expense.

We need to change bureaucracy which Covid-19 is already breaking apart and find better ways of efficiency to keep us healthy and safe.

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Footnotes

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Minnesota's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Amy Klobuchar (D)

Tina Smith (D)

Representatives

District 1

Brad Finstad (R)

District 2

Angie Craig (D)

District 3

Kelly Morrison (D)

District 4

Betty McCollum (D)

District 5

Ilhan Omar (D)

District 6

Tom Emmer (R)

District 7

Michelle Fischbach (R)

District 8

Pete Stauber (R)

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Republican Party (4)