Alex Hering in Brainerd Dispatch

Alex Hering is running to unseat John Poston in State District 9A. The Brainerd Dispatch ran an excellent article on Alex earlier this week. The first few paragraphs are below as is the link to the complete article.

Hering makes his pitch for District 9A representative

For Alex Hering, the vice-chair of the Cass County DFL, a keyword is "care"—health care, elderly care, home care and daycare, or caring for the environment and caring for one's neighbor.

Care, in the sense of being valued and supported by one's community, is starting to diminish in Minnesota communities, Hering said. That's a central reason why he's running to be representative of District 9A (an area covering almost all of Wadena and Todd counties, as well as the southern portion of Cass County) in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

"Who's taking care of who? Are we being represented by a government that wants to help people or help corporations or lenders or outside big interests?" Hering said. "It comes down to who your neighbors are and are they OK? Looking after each other doesn't seem like a priority lately."

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