A Veteran Cop Explains Why He’s Running For The Minnesota House And How He’ll Tackle Crime, Taxes, And Broken Politics

A blown server didn’t stop this conversation, and neither will cynicism. We bring back Chris Stewart, former MPD officer and SWAT team member, founder of Heroes Health and Heroes, and now a declared candidate for the Minnesota House in District 54B. What follows is an unfiltered plan to restore trust, safety, and fiscal sanity across Minnesota—rooted in front-line experience rather than talking points.

We start with the nonprofit work: peer-to-peer outdoor programs that help first responders process trauma and prevent suicide. That service mindset shapes how Chris talks about policymaking. He lays out why he’s running: to bring clear standards to use-of-force debates, to push for real oversight on fraud and spending, and to rebuild the conditions that make downtowns livable and businesses confident again. Crime, taxes, and trust are tied together, he argues; when accountability collapses, costs rise and families pay twice.

Chris doesn’t shy away from hard lines. He explains how force should be judged by what a reasonable officer would do in the moment, not by political pressure. He calls for tighter welfare and EBT guardrails that protect the vulnerable while cutting exploitation. He favors merit in safety‑critical roles so the most qualified people serve where stakes are highest. And he makes a case for practical bridge‑building: talk to everyone, share experience and data, persuade without demeaning, and let voters decide with clear information.

Along the way we hear about his blindness and how it sharpened his focus on competence over appearances. The message is consistent: dignity for people, demands on systems, and a government that remembers who it serves. If you want a grounded take on Minnesota’s challenges—and a concrete blueprint to tackle crime, costs, and credibility—this conversation delivers.

If this resonates, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find it. And if you’re in Minnesota, get involved, show up, and make your vote count.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And Sponsor Message
• 2:22 Nonprofit Mission For First Responders
• 4:39 Announcing A Run For Minnesota House
• 7:20 Experience, Motives, And Principles
• 9:54 Use Of Force Debate And Minneapolis Fallout
• 15:18 Crime, Taxes, And Downtown Decline
• 19:12 Immigration, Fraud, And State Accountability
• 23:09 Welfare, EBT Oversight, And Reforms
• 27:05 Merit Over DEI And Public Safety
• 31:00 Bridging Parties And Persuasion
• 34:36 Faith, Civility, And Resilience
• 38:20 Get Involved: Voting And Grassroots
• 42:00 Candidate Info And Closing Credits

Transcript

SPEAKER_02: 0:09

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SPEAKER_01: 0:43

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SPEAKER_01: 2:23

Chris Stewart. Sorry about the last time, Chris. The had the again, the server had the failure and the power supply. I did not save the last episode, so I'm hoping we can give this a a part two. Are you with me?

SPEAKER_03: 2:37

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_01: 2:38

Okay. I can't believe that, dude. Again, things in the bunker must be getting pretty old when I got post-war equipment, right?

SPEAKER_03: 2:46

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01: 2:48

Alright, super duper. So let's do this. We talked last time about a lot of things, and I'll tell you what, it was hard to get my head around it. Had the had the system not failed, I'd have had this already up and posted. But let's start out with you were on the show before. And you were you were running an NPO for a nonprofit. From what the last show said, was you your nonprofit is is a thing still, or is it not? Yes, it is. Okay, and enlighten us again what that was.

SPEAKER_03: 3:20

So I run a nonprofit called Heroes Health and Heroes. We are a Flybull 1C3 nonprofit here in Minnesota, and we'll be expanding to neighboring states here this upcoming summer, actually. But uh we're a peer-to-peer support group for both active and retired first responders. And what we do is we put on group outdoor activities for our first responders to engage in at no cost for themselves. And it's all about getting individuals who have experienced a lot of the same and similar traumas throughout their careers, getting them together and helping them cope with the traumas and stresses of their profession. And uh, you know, all in an attempt to help prevent first responder suicides. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01: 4:04

And and I I think that we talked about it last time. You also said that you had a what was it? You were working with the Magnus Veterans Group, right? Veterans Association?

SPEAKER_03: 4:16

Uh we we have we've uh been in contact with them uh and have uh partnered up with them in the past when uh insofar as marketing events, yes.

SPEAKER_01: 4:28

Oh, awesome. Sean's a pretty good egg. He's a good friend of mine, and I've been talking to him for years. And uh you you know, you guys got a heck of a job in front of you. Uh that's just that's a lot of work, and hats off to both of you. So let's start out with what you got going now. Tell me what's going on in the world.

SPEAKER_03: 4:44

Yeah, you know, so uh apparently I didn't have enough on my plate. So uh with everything that's happened the last couple years, uh, as far as politics is concerned, um that my interaction with legislators while running my nonprofit, um, I I was just sick of uh the the course that this state in particular is heading and the dishonesty of politicians on both sides of the aisle. So after careful thought and prayer, uh I decided to announce that I am running for the Minnesota House of Representatives, representing District 54B, which includes the Power Lake area. Uh it this year it's gonna be it's for 2026, so it's an open seat. Uh Representative Bakeberg, who currently holds this position, is gonna be stepping up and running for the open and Minnesota Senate seat.

SPEAKER_01: 5:47

Well, that's a handful, huh?

SPEAKER_03: 5:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 5:52

Are you ready for this?

SPEAKER_03: 5:54

I am, yes. I um I'm excited. I'm extremely motivated. Um and with my life experience working as a cop for Minneapolis for roughly 15 years, uh working in the most my most of my career in the underserved area of North Minneapolis, and all the split-second decisions that I was required to make on a daily basis, the interactions that I've had with people throughout my career, being able to talk to individuals, be able to uh convince them to do things that they may not want to do, um, especially in hostile situations where criminals don't always want to listen to the police. And just being able to navigate those waters, uh, along with my experience running a nonprofit and having a fair amount of interaction on the legislative side of things, fighting for legislation, fighting against other legislation, um, I think has given me the experience to move forward with this next venture and to do it to do it well. Um, I don't need this job. I want it. Um I I want to continue to help people. I I've been a public service servant my entire life with Minneapolis Police and now running my nonprofit. And and I'm here to serve the people. I'm not here to put my self-interest first. Um I'm not here to put um, you know, this this isn't this isn't going to be a career for me. I'm not a career politician, I'm not a politician. I'm a I'm a husband, I'm a father, um, and I'm somebody that cares deeply for for the state and for this country. And I'm going to go in there and and fight for what I believe is right and to make a difference.

SPEAKER_01: 8:02

Well, that's a lot of fight. Good for you, good for joining the trink the team. But there's still a lot of people that want to fight the fight. What if what if they're on the other side who want to fight the fight? Who you know, how do you how do we want to believe you? And and tell me what's different about you.

SPEAKER_03: 8:20

What's what's different about me is that I've been in these tough situations, uh, especially with Minneapolis, and I I've stood up against um these so-called leaders when they're wrong, and I I I have no problem doing it. I actually enjoy it. Um I've never I've never been a yes man. I will never be a yes man. Um I I have very strong principles that I try to lead my life with, and I'm a fighter. Um, I'm gonna do what, again, I believe is right. I've done it my entire career, and I'm going to go out there and fight. And as soon as I'm not effective anymore, um I'll no no longer uh do what I'm doing. Um, but as long as I'm effective, uh whether it's uh running a nonprofit or or now seeking this uh this house seat, uh I I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01: 9:22

Now when you get in the house, there are gonna be uh SFs and HFs coming through, Senate floor, house floor for you new listeners. Let's say uh a bill comes across your desk. Let's say you get in and everything's all honky dory. Now, I'm gonna play a little devil advocate here, so don't don't don't beat me up too bad. There's gonna be a use of force policy. We all know what's going on in the news currently. We this we this we've been down about a week with my server offline. But the use of force policy is gonna say, did Derek Chauvin have such a big hit on this? Was he obviously uh again with your police history? Was he overuse of force? Was he under use of force? We're gonna put a policy in house floor that we can't use of force, we're gonna you know you know you've all heard all the stories. Now, how would you how would you approach that with an objective view saying, okay, yeah, did Derek get carried away? Did he not? And I don't know if you've served with Derek or not. So this might be like a tough question.

SPEAKER_03: 10:24

Yeah, so so if you're talking in particular about the use of force that uh Derek Chauvin used, I I never worked with him, I knew who he was, uh, so there's that there's not that connection between the two of us. Um I don't think the force that he used was inappropriate, uh or ex uh I guess I should say excessive. Um kneeling on what I believe was was his shoulder blades, not his neck, um, is appropriate use of force in most circumstances. Being on his neck for nine minutes, however long it was, may not have been the most appropriate thing, but it wasn't excessive force, and it was not what contributed to the death of uh Mr.

SPEAKER_01: 11:14

Floyd. Mr. Floyd. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 11:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: 11:16

But Ariando says, and he came out publicly to say, like, this is a uh excessive use of force, and we're gonna we're gonna hang this guy. Now, would you go against your your your boss, your chief, the to to be right and still be wrong?

SPEAKER_03: 11:31

Absolutely. Uh Chief Arendano is is wrong 100%. Um he he is a very nice individual, um, or he used to be, um, but he was a horrible police chief. He was a horrible cop. Um, he had his guns stolen from him at least twice throughout his career by suspects. Um, so you know, when when it comes to uh police uh Chief Aaron Dondo and his skill of appropriate force and what was or or wasn't excessive, uh, I don't think is a good benchmark. You have to look at what a normal cop would have done given those exact same circumstances, and that's how excessive force use of forces is uh is looked through. Um and again, I I I don't think it was excessive. I think it m was probably inappropriate for how long he stood uh kneeled on um Mr. Floyd's back. Um, but again, uh wasn't a criminal issue, should have never been a criminal issue because again, Floyd died from the amount of fentanyl in his system.

SPEAKER_01: 12:45

Right. Well, that see all this is starting to come out. And we we both have a person who knows a person who has been with that guy, uh, rode with him and then probably to'd him. This is not about a question of whether or not it was it was right or wrong. This is a question of whether you, if if you hold a position of power or oversight, would say, no, Mr. Arendundo, we're not doing this. This is not gonna be a conversation. And no, I will therefore not support this bill to excessive force this. That's my question.

SPEAKER_03: 13:18

Yeah, absolutely. Um, I again I did it when I was a cop. I'll I'll do it here. Um, I've got no problem uh standing up for what I believe is right. Um, and I am not somebody that's gonna be paid for by special or uh lobbyist organizations. Uh I'm going to go out there and represent the people. I'm not here to represent lobbyist organizations or special interests. And to be honest, uh I don't care who these individuals are. Wrong is wrong, right is right. And regardless of what side of the alley you're on or what position you hold, um you should be held to the same standard as everybody else.

SPEAKER_01: 14:03

People think that because you're in a district, 54B, was it? Yes. That this doesn't affect them. I I happen to think the difference. How would you think that this would affect these people in your area because of we pay state taxes, we pay federal taxes, we're we pay for that million dollar gold gasket that uh Minneapolis put for Jacob Fry's crying on. What do you think there?

SPEAKER_03: 14:30

Yeah, I mean it it it it affects you. Um and I would say it has a direct effect on everybody. Um, because not only does it you know it it correlate with with taxes and the rise of taxes, um, but also it a lot of people are associated with downtown Minneapolis, whether it's personal, whether it's business-wise, um and going down there and being a victim of a crime, uh, whether it's you yourself or or somebody that you know, a family member or friend, um, this affects everybody. That the downfall of Minneapolis has affected everybody in one way or another, whether they want to admit it or not. And it may not be that direct correlation, but you know, it it has. Um, it has it has changed this entire state, uh, whether it's exact you know, directly what happened with Minneapolis with the riots and with the essentially the city being burnt down, um, to the disrespect towards law enforcement and the lack of the lack of uh trust uh within within law enforcement, but also within um the respect to individuals in authority positions whatsoever, whether it's teachers, whether it's parents, whether it's it's law enforcement, this state has turned into uh into a zoo. It's it's prime time for criminals and prime example. Minnesotans are the highest or Minnesotans are the biggest contributor to Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization holding small. Yeah. It is absolutely insane. Um that the the criminality in this state is out of control, and we need tough Republicans who are gonna stand up and say enough is enough.

SPEAKER_01: 16:30

Yeah, no more. No more, ever. How do you like the Trump thing? I mean, I'm not a big Trump fan. I am kind of a trump, I'm a Republican. You know, I have that center line and I play both sides. And I think common sense doesn't have a party. Now, his TPR, it's gonna be kind of a thing. And and then of course the news wants to play it down like there's only 900 people on it, and this, that, the other. And we know that we can trust the news about as far as we can throw a semi. How do you feel about that? Because it that would be a conversation that would certainly come across your desk, too, if you were elected in a position.

SPEAKER_03: 17:05

Yeah, I I think it's a great first step. Uh it needs to be followed up by the Department of the Justice, Homeland Security, Department of Justice coming in and doing an investigation into the state, not only to figure out how this money got funneled over to our terrorist organization, uh, but also to look at how many individuals in this state are here illegally. How many here have committed um immigration fraud, have created uh um been a part of uh refugee fraud? Um it this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is gotta be it's gotta be criminality going on. There is so much criminality going on. Uh it it it's it's unfathomable to to believe what will actually come out of it. Um it's it's gonna be greater than than you and I can even imagine. Big time.

SPEAKER_01: 18:07

You know, I tell these people who who give me this look, I I can't believe Trump got back in. I can't believe that I says, hold on, hold on. You you have to focus on what's going on. Even the left dem don't want what's going on to the socialist left ems. So now you got a party on the left side beating themselves up in the same party. And and and you you wonder why Trump got back in? The lefts are starting to vote for him, right? Because they just they're done with being the punching bag. Do you think that's enough to flip this state?

SPEAKER_03: 18:44

I I think that there's enough common sense individuals in this state that this state is not lost. Let's um yeah, and and and let let's let's be honest. Uh if it doesn't flip now, how much worse does it need to get before something changes? Um you you can't consistently or you can't continue to do the same thing and expect a different result. And this state has gone to hell in a handbasket with Governor Wallace and Keith Ellison at the at the helm. And we need a true leader who's going to put a stop to all of this, whether it's immigration fraud, uh illegal immigrants in this country, whether it's the crime problem, whether it's the billion-dollar plus worth of fraud that uh that has been found out so far, there's gonna be more uh off the backs of Minnesota taxpayers. Property crimes is going to go up a billion dollars next year for the state. After a year where they raised taxes in 23 and 24, and now again in 20 uh 26, property taxes are going to increase by a billion dollars statewide. Uh you are pricing individuals out of the state. You are pushing employers out of this state because it is an extremely unfriendly employer state.

SPEAKER_01: 20:14

Yeah, yeah. Company Companies don't want to be here.

SPEAKER_03: 20:18

No, absolutely not. Not only with the high taxes, but this this insane uh uh family program that they're gonna initiate at the beginning of the year. Can you imagine the amount of fraud that is gonna happen there?

SPEAKER_01: 20:34

Oh, that's incredible, isn't it? Let's l let's look at what we know. Downtown used to be the bustling Mecca of of Minnesota. Things happened. Things get really happened, and now they don't even want to be downtown. Can you blame them? Now, if we keep moving these people around the city or around the around the state, okay, we're not downtown anymore. We're gonna we're gonna move to here or we're gonna move to there. And they and they get to the point where, okay, we we've lowered the crime, but we still have a lot of money to pay this. That's kind of a on-your-radar thing, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03: 21:11

Yeah, absolutely. The cost of living in the state is it's it's devastating families. It's it's unaffordable. And and Minnesota is what the first or the second highest tax state in the in the nation. Um it's it's unaffordable, unaffordable for the average Minnesotan. And you over the last what I think was 20 years, I read an article about that Minnesota has lost more people than they've taken in over the last 20 years. We've got a net deficit uh population in the state. People are moving out of it and not coming here. Um and that should speak volumes. And the people who are coming here are uh immigrants and and illegal immigrants collecting, unfortunately, a lot of money off uh from welfare and off the backs of taxpaying citizens.

SPEAKER_01: 22:08

Yeah. That kind of sucks, huh?

SPEAKER_03: 22:12

Absolutely. Like I'm a very generous person. Um my my again, like I'm running a nonprofit to save lives of our first responders. I'm doing for I'm I'm doing it without collecting a paycheck. Um I have a servant heart. I love helping people. Um, but it should be up to individuals to help the the groups and organizations that they want to help, not the gu it shouldn't be the role of the government. The government shouldn't be charitable with with our money.

SPEAKER_01: 22:45

I think I there was a show back in the days. Oh uh Charles Givens. Uh he had a he had a self-help 10 cassette thing. Name ring a bell? He would say OPM other people's money. Sell real estate on on backs of other people. And that's what it feels like to me. Absolutely. Here, we're gonna we're gonna give away your stuff. Hold on here, hold on. Why are you giving away my stuff? Give your own stuff away. Yeah, that was a Charles E. Gibbons real estate class. I didn't remember it was 87, 88, where everybody wanted to be a MLM multilevel thing, and it was just hilarious. And you paid a thousand bucks to get in it. So there you were, a real estate tycoon genius without no money. Except for the guy who collected a thousand bucks. So do you think our state's being run like an MLM?

SPEAKER_03: 23:37

I do. Without a doubt.

SPEAKER_01: 23:40

Who's the ringleader?

SPEAKER_03: 23:45

Well, you you've got to blame the person at the top. That's uh Governor Wallace. Uh nobody in his administration has ever been held accountable for their failures. Whether whether it's uh whether it's a crime problem, whether it's the fraud problem in this state, nobody's been fired.

SPEAKER_01: 24:04

Well, he already explained that on the news. He said it was just bad bookkeeping.

SPEAKER_03: 24:09

Yeah, a billion dollars worth of bad bookkeeping uh i just doesn't pass a smell test.

SPEAKER_01: 24:19

It does if you're the one being smell.

SPEAKER_03: 24:21

Yeah, well, you know, true leaders take responsibility for um their their actions, good or bad. The box stops with them. Governor Wallace is clearly not a good leader. He is a failure at every turn, and it is time that we, Minnesotans, take this state back.

SPEAKER_01: 24:46

That's a tall order, but I do believe that the TPR is gonna be a pivotal piece in that uh conversation. Just like we wouldn't get the uh or like the Republicans couldn't get this the House or the well the United States back at a federal level, and they did. Like you said, common sense ain't common enough.

SPEAKER_03: 25:09

So so go ahead. I was gonna say no, it's not, but I I I think that there's enough people in the middle who have some of that common sense, and they able they're able to evaluate what has gone over, gone down in the last several years, and and really question, you know, are things better now than they were before? And the answer is no, uh, especially in this state. Um it's great for those people collecting uh welfare, um, but for the average taxpayers, uh pair in Minnesota, uh the the it it has not gotten better. Whether again, whether you want to look at crime or you want to look at affordability and the cost of living, that this state is is going down the downhill.

SPEAKER_01: 26:02

So the people that vote for a living should fear the people that pay them to vote for a living.

SPEAKER_03: 26:12

I'm sorry, come again.

SPEAKER_01: 26:14

The people that vote for a living should should fear should fear the people that pay them to vote for a living.

SPEAKER_03: 26:21

Yes, they should.

SPEAKER_01: 26:22

I think that's a common sense approach, don't you?

SPEAKER_03: 26:25

Yes, yes, I do. The people people sh elected leaders should be held responsible for their decisions, and this is a government for the people, by the people, and it needs to get back to that. Um too too many people these days, it they're they're lifelong career politicians who are only out there for their best self-interest and not actually the people that they represent.

SPEAKER_01: 26:55

Well, at least it starts that way, right?

SPEAKER_03: 27:00

That's so it it starts that way and it should always stay that way. And if if you you have somebody representing you who's a career politician who's not being held to the standards or expectations that you have for them, then do something about it. Whether it's uh donate to a a primary candidate, whether it's supporting a a uh a new person coming on, get involved.

SPEAKER_01: 27:35

Right. Go knock some doors.

SPEAKER_03: 27:37

Yeah, help them out. Yeah, time time to get involved. It's it's enough sitting sitting back and doing nothing and bitching and whining about it. And believe me, I've been there. Um but now is the time to do something about it. Um and again, it it continues to go back to this. It's like if we can't win now, when can we win? Um the the Republican Party has a lot of great people in it, a lot of strong messages. We need together, we need to come together, work as a team. Uh, once the primaries are all done, once endorsements are all done, come together, work together as a team, and get the best and strongest Republicans elected so we can make the drastic changes that need to be made in the state.

SPEAKER_01: 28:21

When the funding got cut off federally, Trump comes in and hits the hammer down, people are starting to dry up, the state had to figure out how they're gonna pay these EBTs, whatever whatever they're called now, quick social programs. Now here's the here's the problem with that. There are some people that need that. Absolutely, I I am I am a hundred and thousand percent that this has got to be done. But then there are some people that expected it. And there are some people that were mad because they didn't get it. Now, the latter of the two, we owe that to them. That is their God-given right to collect from the state. How would you stop that?

SPEAKER_03: 29:04

Well, I I I would disagree on that premonition that it's the god-given right to collect from a state. I I don't believe that to be true whatsoever. Um benefits, welfare benefits should be there to help individuals out in need, but only for for a duration of time. And we should encourage people to be the best them. Um we shouldn't be providing meteoric lifestyles for these individuals to continue to live only to collect welfare and and not um brace to the their their fullest potential. So again, I I believe in helping people out. Um there should be welfare for those who who truly need it. Um, but there also needs to be checks and balances. This isn't something that should last an entire lifetime and it shouldn't last for generations upon generations. Uh I have firsthand experience with this working in North Minneapolis at 1201 on the first of the month. You know, you would have 20 cars lined up outside an outdoor ATM pulling out cash. Now, why are they allowed to take cash out of ATMs in order to buy food? There should be food stamps. There should be there should be restrictions on what people can and cannot buy. They should not be able to buy tobacco. They should not be able to buy alcohol, and they should not be able to sell their EBTs or food stamps to other individuals for cash. There's a lot of fraud in the EBT system, in the SNAP program, and there needs to be accountability. There needs to be, every so often, every two years, I don't think is unreasonable for to have somebody reapply. And having them having a term limit, or not a term limit, but a limit on how long people can collect, I think, is very reasonable.

SPEAKER_01: 31:00

Sure, because we're the ones writing in checks. We're not the one collecting it. Absolutely. Well it's reasonable to you, but now let's play the devil's advocate. How dare you? You you you racist guy, you how dare you say that I should reapply? What kind of world are you living in?

SPEAKER_03: 31:16

How is that racist? There's there's people from every background, every nationality, every skin color that that collects welfare. Yeah, I mean nothing but I'm just throwing that out at you, man.

SPEAKER_01: 31:26

I'm just I'm just, you know, the the the destroyers want to find something, some xenophobe or pick some acronym or whatever. But but how dare you? That's my money.

SPEAKER_03: 31:35

That's that's that's your lazy argument. Uh when when they can't fight back about uh about facts or or the situation, they always call you racist or homophobic or uh put put whatever phobic you want in there, and it and that's the farthest thing from the truth.

SPEAKER_01: 31:53

No, it's that they're gonna call you that so that you back down.

SPEAKER_03: 31:56

I I don't care. I've been called that my entire life. Whenever whenever I was a cop, all these all these criminals are like, oh, you're racist, you're racist. Well, you know what? I was helping the black victim. How about them? Uh how about society in general start standing up for these victims regardless of what they look like. Uh and most of your viewers may not know this, but I'm 100% blind. Uh, I went blind a little over three years ago. And I wish everybody had this misfortune of being blind because they quickly realize that it doesn't matter what somebody looks like, the the color of their skin, uh, their nationality, what what gender they are, it doesn't matter. You I just want the best qualified individuals to be working for working with me. So, you know, if I if I go to a doctor, I don't care what the doctor looks like, I want that person to be the best in their profession. Uh, same with a construction worker or whatever else it may be. I want that individual to be the very best at what they do, um, regardless of what he or she looks like.

SPEAKER_01: 33:06

Well, let's talk Adrian Noor. Remember that story?

SPEAKER_03: 33:12

Uh I believe so.

SPEAKER_01: 33:14

Shot across his partner to hit this Australian gal who come up who was in trouble and she needed police help. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, okay, this was a DEI hire. Matter of fact, I'm I've got very good information on that DEI hire. Uh and the person who was TOM said, You you hire him or or you're looking for a new job, and that was the gal, the police chief gal. Well, that kind of a DEI thing. He wasn't the best in what he was qualified for. Adrian Norris seems like a pretty good guy. Uh Muslim, I think he was. Mohammed Mohammed Norr. Mohammed, okay. And he seems like a hell of a nice guy, but yet he scored low on his intake.

SPEAKER_03: 34:00

Absolutely. And unfortunately, there's way too many of those people across all segments of society. And it doesn't mean that you're not a nice person, it doesn't mean you can't be successful at something else. But if you're not the very best at what you're doing, then you shouldn't be you shouldn't be hired. Uh, if there's somebody who's more qualified, uh they should get the position above you, uh, regardless of of what it is. Um, but again, it doesn't mean that you can't be great at something else. And society has has it stuck in their mind that you know these people need to be in this position because they look like this, and people who care or people who receive these services are going to care what the person looks like, and that's the farthest thing from the truth. They just want qualified individuals helping them out, um and and these individuals to be the very best at what they do.

SPEAKER_01: 34:55

Absolutely. But that ain't our world.

SPEAKER_03: 35:00

Not yet. Um it can be that way. Uh we don't have to live this way. Uh and the same thing with the crime problem. We don't need to live in a crime-burn society. There's other sections of the world that you can leave your smartphone on your chair at a restaurant and that's like saving your speak seat. You can go to the bathroom and come back, and nobody's gonna steal that. You can walk in in parks at night and not have to worry about being mugged or raped or assaulted. Uh and again, we don't need to live this way, whether whether it's a crime problem or whether it's it's it's this DEI uh garbage. We we don't need to live this way. Uh treat everybody like you want to be treated, and and treat everybody with respect, but it doesn't mean that people are entitled to a certain position or a certain job just because of the color of their skin or who they are.

SPEAKER_01: 35:57

Well, I can only imagine in the next couple of years this is gonna be a heck of a conversation on the floor of both the Senate and the House. Especially if the state ever flips. Now, with your background, you're gonna have some first hand knowledge that a lot of people don't. And you're gonna have they're gonna come to you and say, Guide me in this decision, or let me know what you think, and how and why should we do that? And what are you gonna tell these people? These people that at one point DEI the world out of everything. They they feed the children and keep sending money to it, these these same people. Now they're gonna look at you and say, Hey, what did you do when you were on the force? How how would you say, I mean, would you say something to them or would you just let them fall and die on the sword?

SPEAKER_03: 36:42

No, I I'd I'd talk to them about it and and show uh and share with them my perspective. Um my experience, my perspective, my my train of thought. I'm never gonna tell you how to vote, I'm never gonna tell you how to think. Um you you've got this thing between your two ears called a brain. Um you got the ability to take in information and to make your own decision, and that is what I will give them. I'll give them insight, I'll give them information, I will tell them my experience, but I'm never gonna tell anybody that, hey, you must do this uh because of that. No, we're all given the ability to think and rational and uh rational, rationalize on our own.

SPEAKER_01: 37:22

Yeah. Did you get where I was going on that? Yeah. Because a lot of times there's only how many, 50, 60, 70 house of representatives in the state. I could be wrong. My point is that sometimes you need guidance within. Yeah. And some of the left won't talk to the rights, and vice versa.

SPEAKER_03: 37:43

Yeah. And I don't I don't care who you are, I'll talk to you. Um, I'm not gonna be like, oh, you're a Democrat, uh, or you're a lean Democrat, or you don't agree with me on this position, so I'm not gonna talk to you about it. Uh I I think that's where society has failed tremendously lately, is we refuse to talk to other individuals who don't think like us.

SPEAKER_04: 38:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03: 38:03

And I've got no problem doing that. Um again, I'll share with you my my thought, how I'm gonna vote, why I'm gonna vote this way, and try to educate you as much as possible. Um, but again, at the end of the day, we we everybody has the ability to make their own decision, and I will do my best to convince people or or or to persuade people my way because of my train of thought, my experience, my training, uh, whatever it may be. Um I think that's yeah, and I think that's that's the most effective way, just having conversations with individuals and and explaining them to to them why you you're thinking that way or they're or why that's your train of thought. Um not just a yes or no answer.

SPEAKER_01: 38:51

Am I throwing a lot of hardballs at you, man? No, we're good. I just you have these questions, you've talked, I've talked to a lot of people. I've had the privilege of talking to some pretty high profile people. And we're all saying the same thing. We're just saying it with a d with a different letter. And you know, and there's not too many nutjobs I've talked to on either side of this, but you know, when you when you feel that real wrong vibe and you got this conversation going, and you just want to hang up the phone and say, Yeah, I don't want to talk to you. But you know, you muscle through it and you finish. Luckily I haven't had too much of that. And it sounds like you're a very well-rounded, strong candidate for your position.

SPEAKER_03: 39:36

Thank you. I believe so. Um and you know, for for me, it's just I I I I I'm I'm a Christian individual, I I I believe in the the teaching of of Jesus Christ, and I I believe that we should just try to follow on his footsteps as much as possible and just be good, genuine human beings. Uh, we don't need to be mean, we don't need to be evil. Um we can disagree with one another and and still find common ground. And we should all want to achieve the same thing, which is happiness. Uh and for for us believers, uh life after death.

SPEAKER_01: 40:20

Right. And to be safe.

SPEAKER_03: 40:23

Yeah, absolutely. And and you know, I think all that gets wrapped into to happiness. Like it's pretty hard to live a happy life if if you you're in a fear all the time, right? Or um you're constantly getting getting attacked uh because your beliefs. Like that that's not a happy way of life.

SPEAKER_01: 40:43

Uh unfortunately, in the po public figure world, that happens on a regular basis.

SPEAKER_03: 40:49

Yeah, that is very true.

SPEAKER_01: 40:51

No matter how thick the skin is, you still had enough of it, and when you pop, you you don't want people around you when you pop.

SPEAKER_03: 40:58

I agree with that.

SPEAKER_01: 41:00

Let's see what else. Uh we we've had it, we covered a lot of ground. Again, you sound like an excellent candidate. I hope that people in your voting ward will say, hey, we should probably pay attention to this. Give this guy a chance, make him make him do his job and and and put eyes on him and keep sure that he's gonna do his job. What's your what's your um website? Give us uh information on how to get a hold of you.

SPEAKER_03: 41:25

Yeah, check out my website. It's vote stewardmn.com. That's s-t-e-w-ar-r-d.

SPEAKER_01: 41:31

Uh vote stewardmn.com through a uh donate link in there and all that good stuff?

SPEAKER_03: 41:38

Yep, you'll uh on there you'll find my email address, you'll find all my social media links, uh links, and then uh a way to donate in to help out.

SPEAKER_01: 41:48

That sounds pretty awesome. Is there anything you want to add? Because you're getting even though this show is global, we still have a local following that's pretty decent. What do you want them to know?

SPEAKER_03: 42:00

We need to fight. Um Minnesotans need to step up to the plate, and we need to fight. The time to take back this state is is now, and we can do it as long as we have individuals who are willing to put forth the effort, who are going to be strong and stand by what they say. Uh unfortunately, too many politicians have have failed us all, and and the trust within politicians these days are are I think only second to the lack of trust in the media. But I I'm here to bring trust back to being a legislator. And I want you when I go out there and talk to you and try to earn your vote, I want to earn your trust first before I earn your vote. Because if you can't trust me, how can you vote for me? Um and I think we we need more politicians like that who are who are going to stay on their ground and be like, no, I'm gonna stand up against this or or for this because this is what I believe, and this is what I told you I was growing on, and I'm gonna stick with that. Um so you know, Republicans need to get out there and make sure that everybody knows that their vote matters. Um get involved. Yeah, get get involved, get engaged. Uh 40% of uh Republicans in the state uh don't vote because they're they feel like they're disenfranchised, whether they've got uh uh a party uh a person in the party that they they don't care to vote for, they don't think that that individual is strong enough, or because they think that their vote doesn't matter because it's going to be uh you know crossed up by an illegal immigrant or or some type of fraud. Well, every vote does matter. And if you're unwilling to go out there and vote um to get involved, then you better be okay with shutting down, setting up and that's saying a word. Um because you get you get the government you deserve, right? Yeah, yeah, you get the government you deserve, and you and if if people aren't willing to get engaged, they aren't willing to go out and stand up uh and involve people in that they believe are or or have very similar values to, like we don't need to agree, agree on everything. We'll never agree on everything. Uh everybody's different, everybody comes from a different background. But if you agree with me on more things than that or on very important issues, then I I wouldn't I would highly encourage you, regardless of what party you're in, uh vote for me because I'm gonna be a good representative of who you want, whether it's lower taxes, less crime, uh if you want to uh stand up for your gun rights, um hold uh the government accountable for your tax paying dollars, like find somebody that you you you have a lot of common with, especially the big topics, and get out there and vote.

SPEAKER_01: 44:59

That's a lot, man. You you you nailed this. I'm I'm I'm very I'm very uh on page. If you were in my board, I'd say where's the where's the checkbox? I'm gonna do this.

SPEAKER_03: 45:14

Thank you. I may not be the best spoken individual out there, uh, but you will always know where I stand and you will always know where I'm coming from.

SPEAKER_01: 45:22

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