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Kendall Qualls, businessman, veteran and Republican, throws hat into Minnesota's governor race

Saint Paul Pioneer Press - 1/9/2022

Jan. 9—Kendall Qualls, a U.S. Army veteran, Republican, and vice president of a Fortune 100 company announced his intention to run against Gov. Tim Walz on Sunday.

"I'm running for governor of Minnesota because we are at a crossroads in our country," Qualls said in a news release. "For over a decade the radical left has morphed the culture of the country where it is not recognizable. We are not going to be the generation that lost the America that we have known and loved."

Qualls called Minnesota "ground zero for riots, looting and the defund the police movement and I will end the anti-American agenda pushed by (Walz), Ilhan Omar and Keith Ellison letting our kids fall behind in school all the while letting record crime go unchecked. I will end the flood of people leaving our state, which is ranked as one of the highest in the country, because of the heavy personal and business tax burden."

Qualls founded TakeCharge MN, an organization that "supports the notion that the idea of America works for everyone regardless of race and station in life."

His life is a "living case study that the promise of America is alive and well," he said. "I went from poverty to prosperity, from the projects of Harlem and a trailer park in Oklahoma to a Vice President of a Fortune 100 company. I'm a living, breathing example that where you start your life isn't where you have to end up. That's my message for every Minnesotan who wants an opportunity and that's what I plan to fight for every day."

In October, Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan announced that they would seek re-election in 2022.

From 2019: The Pioneer Press interviewed Qualls in 2019, when he was running for U.S. Congress.

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