MN-02: Angie Craig (D)
Angie Craig was raised by a single mom and grew up in a mobile home park. She watched her mom complete her teaching degree over nine years while raising three kids with the help of her grandmother — who herself worked in a union shoe factory well into her 70s. These strong women showed Craig what grit and determination look like.
Like her mom, Craig worked two jobs and took out student loans to put herself through state college. She started her career as a newspaper reporter and worked her way up over 20 years in business to lead a workforce of 16,000 for a major Minnesota manufacturer. Today, she and her wife are moms to four amazing young men. Her oldest is now a proud trade school graduate and a machinist, two have now graduated from four-year colleges and their youngest is a recent graduate from Rosemount High School and is a college student. In the past two years, they’ve added two daughters-in-law and their grandson Noah to the family.
Craig believes college is unaffordable and technical training is unavailable. She thinks health care costs too much, and that incomes aren’t keeping up with the costs of groceries and prescription drugs.
Since coming to Congress, Craig is proud to have:
- Introduced 49 pieces of legislation, four of which were signed into law.
- Co-sponsored more than 1,000 bills, with more than two-thirds of them bipartisan.
- Been ranked in the top 5% of all bipartisan members of Congress.
- Hosted 44 town halls in all six counties in the Second District.
- Met with over 15,000 Minnesotans.
Craig is working hard to bring costs down for working families. In June of this year, she worked across the aisle to pass two bills to address high prices at the gas pump and the grocery store.
Craig has prioritized Minnesota’s family farmers and supporting biofuels markets. She is the first member of Congress to ever get year-round sales of E-15, or Unleaded 88, passed in the House, and she is focused on ensuring that family farms can be passed on to the next generation of farmers.
The biographical information above was sourced from the candidate’s campaign website, see links above for more information.
