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Kevin Dahle
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Democratic Party

Prior offices
Minnesota State Senate District 25
Minnesota State Senate District 20

Education

Bachelor's

University of Northern Iowa

Personal
Religion
Christian: Methodist
Profession
Teacher
Contact

Personal website

Kevin Lee Dahle (b. January 24, 1960) is a former Democratic member of the Minnesota State Senate, representing District 20 from 2013 to 2017.

Dahle previously served in the Senate representing District 25 from 2008, when he won a special election, to 2011.

Biography

Dahle earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa in 1982 and his master's degree from the University of St. Mary's in 2004. His professional experience includes working as a teacher.

Committee assignments

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Dahle served on the following committees:

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Dahle served on the following committees:

Minnesota committee assignments, 2013
• Commerce
• Education, Vice chair
• State and Local Government

Campaign themes

2016

Dahle's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

“

Jobs & The Economy

  • We need a balanced approach to solving the budget deficit. The answer is not simple. We cannot simply raise taxes and ignore the struggling economy any more than we can merely cut taxes and ignore our future. We can neither tax our way to economic recovery nor cut our way to prosperity. Our existing sources of revenue and the allocation of resources need to be scrutinized. Our strongest consideration must be targeted towards supporting our essential services. Economic recovery and future growth will come only through proper investment in our infrastructure, our children, businesses, and protecting the middle class.

Education

  • We must fully fund special education. At the same time, we must work to reduce class size, and make sure that we have the best trained, most qualified teachers in the world. We must also allow teachers the opportunity to do what they do best…to teach. We must invest in early childhood and fully fund all day kindergarten. We must also address the rising costs of higher education. Keeping college affordable is one way of ensuring today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders. Investing in them is an investment in our future.

Energy & Environment

  • Protecting the environment is vital to protect the health of all Americans, and fighting climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing our State, nation, and global community. I believe we must stand up for fair policies that protect America’s environment while allowing for economic opportunity—priorities that can work together.

Health Care

  • I support a health plan that would cover all Minnesotans for all medical needs; a plan that would reduce the need for costly medical care through public health, education, prevention and early intervention. There are currently about 400,000 Minnesotans without any health insurance, and at least 1 million more who have insurance, but still cannot afford to pay their medical bills due to co-payments, deductibles, and care not covered by their insurance, on top of their premiums.

Transportation

  • At the same time we cannot ignore our crumbling infrastructure. We need to renew our commitment to rebuilding roads and bridges in order to move people and goods in a safe and efficient manner. We need to increase our options for bus and rail transit. Future development should consider walking, biking, and transit friendly planning as a part of vibrant livable communities.[1]
 ”
—Kevin Dahle[2]

2012

Dahle's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[3]

Jobs and the Economy

  • Excerpt: "I am committed to building an economic approach that lifts every American, not just the privileged few. The average American CEO earns more before lunchtime in one day than a minimum wage worker earns all year."

Education

  • Excerpt: "We need to take a critical look at how we fund education. Minnesota schools are struggling with fewer and fewer resources. The State cannot use our schools as a credit card to solve its long term budget problems."

Environment & Energy

  • Excerpt: "The next generations should inherit a beautiful Minnesota. It’s time to protect our environment by demanding higher standards and a cleaner quality of life. We need to protect our wetlands and preserve our clean air and water with sensible solutions, energy solutions that invest in clean, renewable energy and efficient technologies."

Healthcare

  • Excerpt: "Hard working Minnesotans are having a hard time paying for health care costs. Premiums are increasing at an annual rate of 16%. Employers and employees shouldn’t have to make painful decisions about health care."

Transportation

  • Excerpt: "When crafting our transportation options, we must work to reduce the focus on driving. At the same time we cannot ignore our crumbling infrastructure. We need to renew our commitment to rebuilding roads and bridges in order to move people and goods in a safe and efficient manner."

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2016

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Minnesota State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election took place on August 9, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was May 31, 2016.

Rich Draheim defeated incumbent Kevin Dahle in the Minnesota State Senate District 20 general election.[4][5]

Minnesota State Senate, District 20 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Rich Draheim 51.98% 22,274
     Democratic Kevin Dahle Incumbent 48.02% 20,577
Total Votes 42,851
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State


Incumbent Kevin Dahle ran unopposed in the Minnesota State Senate District 20 Democratic primary.[6][7]

Minnesota State Senate, District 20 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Kevin Dahle Incumbent (unopposed)


Rich Draheim ran unopposed in the Minnesota State Senate District 20 Republican primary.[6][7]

Minnesota State Senate, District 20 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Republican Green check mark transparent.png Rich Draheim  (unopposed)

2012

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2012

Dahle won election for the District 20 seat in 2012. He was unopposed in the Democratic primary on August 14 and defeated Mike Dudley (R) in the general election on November 6, 2012.[8]

Minnesota State Senate, District 20, General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngKevin Dahle 50.1% 20,628
     Republican Mike Dudley 49.9% 20,550
Total Votes 41,178

2010

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2010

Dahle lost re-election to the 25th District seat in 2010. He had no primary opposition. Al DeKruif ran for the seat on the Republican ticket and John Grimm ran as an Independent. The general election took place on November 2, 2010.[9]

2008

On January 3, 2008, Dahle won election to the 25th District Seat in the Minnesota State Senate, defeating opponents Ray Cox (R) and Vance Norgaard (I) in a special election.[10]

Minnesota State Senate, District 25 (2008)
Candidates Votes Percent
Green check mark transparent.png Kevin Dahle (DFL) 6,802 55.15%
Ray Cox (R) 5,225 42.37%
Vance Norgaard (I) 296 2.40%
Write-In 10 0.08%

Campaign finance summary

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Kevin Dahle campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2012Minnesota Senate, District 20Won $51,001 N/A**
2010Minnesota Senate, District 25Lost $41,317 N/A**
Grand total$92,318 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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2017

In 2017, the Minnesota State Legislature was in session from January 3 through May 22. The legislature held a special session from May 23 to May 26.

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2016


2015


2014


2013


Taxpayers League of Minnesota

The Taxpayers League of Minnesota, a Minnesota-based taxpayer advocacy organization, releases a legislative scorecard for the Minnesota House of Representatives and Minnesota State Senate once a year. The scorecard gives each legislator a score based on how they voted in the prior legislative term on tax issues and “their efforts to balance the state budget without a tax increase.” The organization also compiles a legislator’s individual "Lifetime Score."[11]

2013

Dahle received a score of 0 percent in the 2013 scorecard, ranking 63rd out of all 67 Minnesota State Senate members.[12]

Personal

Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update.
Kevin and his wife, Beth, have three children.

Recent news

This section links to a Google news search for the term "Kevin + Dahle + Minnesota + Senate"

Kevin Dahle News Feed

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ Kevin Dahle, "Issues," accessed September 21, 2016
  3. ↑ "kevindahle," Official Campaign Website
  4. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "Candidate Filing Search," accessed August 25, 2016
  5. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "General election results, 2016," accessed December 19, 2016
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Minnesota Secretary of State, "Candidate Filings," accessed June 3, 2016
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Minnesota Secretary of State, "Minnesota State Primary: Tuesday, August 9, 2016," accessed August 9, 2016
  8. ↑ Northfield Patch, "Northfield's Kevin Dahle to Run for Minnesota Senate in 2012," November 6, 2011
  9. ↑ Secretary of State Official general election results
  10. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State - 2008 Special Election Results
  11. ↑ Taypayers League of Minnesota, "Legislative Scorecards," accessed May 15, 2014
  12. ↑ Taypayers League of Minnesota, "Legislative Scorecard, 2013," accessed May 15, 2014
Political offices
Preceded by
Lyle Koenen (DFL) 		Minnesota State Senate District 20
2013- 2017 		Succeeded by
Rich Draheim (R)
Preceded by
- 		Minnesota State Senate District 25
2008–2011 		Succeeded by
Al DeKruif (R)


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