Olmsted Common Sense
Minnesota is in crisis. Our institutions are failing us, our lives are becoming more unaffordable, and the very government we entrusted with massive sums has sold our people out to the four corners of the earth. The established bureaucratic class has robbed the public treasury – funds meant for poor Minnesotans – and given it to scammers in exchange for political loyalty and votes in an elaborate patronage system rivaling Tammany Hall. In short, our leadership is complicit in the largest racketeering operation in the history of this state. To these entrenched elites, our homeland is merely an economic zone.
We need a new generation of public servants – one that will carry the wisdom of our heritage into the future and that will still be here in 40 years to be accountable for their decisions' effect on our society. We need leaders of strong conscience, fully aware that they are accountable to God for how they care for their people. We need leaders who were born here and plan to die here.
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Jesse O'Driscoll, like many of you, has worked in the healthcare field. He has been a Pharmacy Technician and a published medical researcher, even helping an international team bridge continents to advance collaborative public health research. He is not a member of the political elite; medical school was his career pursuit. However, he will leave that path, along with the potential salary that come with it, to serve his home and the people of Olmsted and Dodge Counties and care for our neglected men and women on the Senate floor rather than the clinical office. That being said, he is experienced as a volunteering citizen in the political world. He serves as Deputy Chair of the Citizens Advisory on Transit, a board of the City of Rochester's government. He is on the Central Committee of the Republican Party of Minnesota's First Congressional District and has brought a voice to Gen Z within the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of Olmsted County. He has a history of advocating for long-term housing solutions, sacrificing an opportunity at more political influence in order to appeal to the County Commissioners to use vacant County land for that purpose. He has also helped raise awareness of social services fraud on social media by investigating a dishonest nonprofit in Faribault.​
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Saint Paul needs good ideas rooted in obvious truths, an unyielding love of our homeland and her people, and determination to build a solid way of life for posterity:
In short, we need Olmsted Common Sense.