Overview
- Keeler, 43, a DFL representative from Moorhead and co-chair of the Minnesota House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee, announced her run on social media.
- She cites the Pathway Home Act on homelessness, expanded SNAP access, emergency funding for food shelves, and leadership of a statewide school attendance task force.
- Her launch message urges a move from political division to care and compassion and emphasizes lived experience in serving greater Minnesota.
- MPR News reports the Democratic field now includes marketing business owner Erik Osberg and educator Jared Adams.
- Republican Rep. Michelle Fischbach, who won the seat in 2020 after defeating Colin Peterson, represents a large western Minnesota district stretching from the Canadian border nearly to Iowa.