Welp.....the GOP majority in the MN House was fun while it lasted.
As expected, DFL candidate David Gottfried ran away with a victory in Tuesday’s special election for District 40B, securing shared power for his party in the Minnesota House.
Gottfried won 70% of the vote against Republican challenger Paul Wikstrom and will represent the Roseville-Shoreview area. The victory will lock the two parties into a 67-67 tie in the House.
“It feels great,” Gottfried said of the results. “This has been a really, really hard-fought election. We knocked on doors every day. It feels good that we can get back to the substantive work.”
The election comes four months after DFLer Curtis Johnson won the same seat against the same opponent with 65% of the vote. But a judge later found Johnson ineligible to serve because he failed to meet state residency requirements, which ultimately prompted Tuesday’s special election.
It was probably only a decade ago where a district such as this was a "toss up," maybe even leaned GOP. But now? Well, this is who represents that area as of Tuesday evening (pardon the language).
DFL 40B candidate David Gottfried compares getting stiffed as a waiter to being enslaved in antebellum America:
— MN Up North Lake Guy (@MNUpNorthLakeG1) March 10, 2025
“Ironically enough it is me suffering from the last vestiges of slavery in America, which I suppose is appropriate in America, being that I am a white guy.” pic.twitter.com/ZlDZY8XXyt
No word on whether or not the first bill he drafts is to a proposal to award menial servants like himself reparations.
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