When Rep Kaohly Her defeated Mayor Melvin Carter III in the recent Mayoral Election on November 4th 2025, she will leave the Minnesota State Legislature to become the first Woman Mayor of St Paul Minnesota. She vacates the House District 64A Seat. This requires a Special Election before the next State Legislative Session starts on February 17, 2026.
The Special Election is to be held on Tuesday January 27th, 2026. Only those voters who live in House District 64A (see above map) can vote in this special election.
While this special election is outside of our district, helping Dan Walsh get elected is good hands-on training for next year’s campaign season where we need to help SD 66, HD 66B, US Senate, Governor/ Lt Governor, Secretary of State, MN Attorney General, and State Auditor Candidates to win their races.
This post was not authorized by any candidate, candidate’s committee, PAC, MNGOP, CD4 GOP, nor SD 64 GOP. It’s just a heads up notice to help with a special election in St Paul MN. — admin
With the every snowfall just a reminder to dig out the Fire Hydrants as soon as you can. Also if there is a Metro Transit Bus Stop near your house, dig it out too. Your neighbors who ride the bus will thank you.
We never get tired of this video below. Okay it is a little bit corny but the message of cleaning off the nearest fire hydrant to your house is an important one. Time is of the essence when the nearest Ladder Company of the St Paul’s Bravest show up to put out a fire. Let us say that again, Time is very important to saving lives in a fire. If a firefighter has to waste time digging a hydrant out of a snow bank, your loved one, or your pets, or your neighbors, and their pets could die.
You can take turns with your neighbor over who gets to do the honor of Digging out the Hydrant.
This article was re-posted by permission of Saintpaulrepublicans.us. It was published on December 16, 2017. — admin
There have been 2 Ballot Questions added to the St Paul Ballots in the November 4th General Election. One of them was put on the ballot by a petition spearheaded by Peter Butler. In 2024 he successfully got the Ballot question of moving Mayoral and City Council Elections to the Presidential year starting in 2028.
This year he got the City Fine Ballot Question onto the Ballot. I, Publius Jr, remember signing this petition outside of the Local Republican Party Convention of which I caucus with. Voting Yes for the Ballot Question actually makes it harder for residents to appeal decisions by the City. The Vote Yes for a Fairer St Paul are actually lying about how this makes it fairer for St Paul Residents.
The Second Ballot question is about giving the Independent School District 625 (St Paul Public Schools) $37 million more. No amount of your money has improved the school district. From Schooldigger.com that ranks schools across the country through a variety of metrics, shows St Paul Public Schools ISD 625 flatlined it’s performance and educational excellence. They rank in the lower 22% of School Districts in the state. Their enrollment is dropping due to the curriculum, but mostly due to the current board members advocating for removal of School Resource Officers (SROs) and not suspending nor expelling disruptive or violent students. Remember Devin Scott might be alive today if he wasn’t murdered on his first day of class at Harding High School on February 10, 2023 because the school lacked SROs.
St Paul DFL Supports a YES Vote on Both Ballot Qns is Illegal
St Paul DFL earlier in the year became a defunct political organization, when they didn’t hold a caucus to elect delegates & alternates, and leaders of the organization. If they don’t have leaders or delegates & alternates they cease being a party unit.
Then they recently sent out Campaign material that shows “St Paul DFL Supports” Yes votes on the Ballot questions. This is illegal because who voted for this? Fred Melo, the St Paul Beat Reporter for Pioneer Press talks about this in his report on October 27, 2025.
Peter Butler then filed a complaint against Rick Varco who is the St Paul DFL Treasurer, as well as the treasurer for the “Vote Yes for a Fairer St Paul” group. The hearing by the MN Court of Administrative Appeals would be a week after the election. Sounds almost as if those lit pieces were sent knowing any complaint would not be heard before the election. But then something Happened. His complaint against Rick Varco was dismissed without a hearing. Amazing how fast DFL Justice happens when one of their own is being held accountable.
Here’s the dismissal document from Peter Butler click here: Order of Dismissal
Then the new St Paul Republican City Committee (SPRCC) Chair Greg Copeland sent out a letter to the Pioneer Press Letters to the Editor, and others in response to the dismissal of the complaint. We’re posting it because no one else will.
SPRCC Greg Copeland’s Letter Addressing St Paul DFL’s Illegal Action
“The haste applied by the Court to dispatching Peter Butler’s complaint without a hearing, given the absence of any reply filing by DFLer Rick Varco seeking a dismissal, strikes me as a process falling far short of even the appearance of passing for “Justice”.
How can Citizens have any confidence in the conduct of their elections when there is such flagrant disinterest on the part of those Public Officials paid to Oversee the ways in which questionable campaign spending raises legitimate concerns that voters are being misled about who is financing political advertisements that advocate adoption of 10 years of additional new property taxes, and a law to levy new city fines on citizens in referendum elections.
Especially in this case where Saint Paul citizens will be subject to a host of new financial penalties and fines for violations of City Codes as well as an average $300 per home property tax hike!
It is ironic too that given the fact that Citizens have the power to cast ballots in the matter of new city fines only due to Citizen Volunteers working successfully to collect hundreds of signatures to require this referendum election.
I am thankful that the Pioneer Press put the facts in great detail on their October 28 front page seeking an answer to “Who is sending those DFL mailings?”; and declaring, “The local party unit doesn’t exist, yet it is advocating for votes”. Unfortunately the MN Court of
Administrative Hearings refuses to give these questions a Public Hearing.
Citizens should Vote NO Tuesday on both referendums given the lack of basic accountability. This lack of government transparency requires the People to reject Granting the City any authority to levy new fines and yet more property taxes.
Greg Copeland
Chairman
Saint Paul Republican City Committee”
Greg Copeland, SPRCC Chair, elected in June 2025
This post was not authorized by any candidate, or candidate’s committee, PAC, or the Republican Party of Minnesota. We did get permission to repost the article “SPRCC Chair Calls for St Paul DFL to be held Accountable,” from the Saintpaulrepublicans.us which posted it on November 3rd 2025. — admin
This interview was conducted by Fox 9 News on October 20, 2025 by Amy Hockert, the video is from Fox 9 Minneapolis-St Paul’s YouTube Channel. Amy Hockert calls Candidate Hilborn a Republican even though he is listed as being an independent. Mike Hilborn did run for office in 2024 for House District 65B where he lives in St Paul MN and was endorsed by SD 65 Republicans for office.
Recently, he talked about his campaign last year where he campaigned, knocked on doors and showed up to forums whereas his opponent the incumbent Rep Maria Isa Perez-Vega didn’t campaign as if she already knew the outcome before the race started. Mike Hilborn said “She did not show up to the two forums. The forums were held. I raised about $19,000. Knocked on doors. Had a meet and greet at McGovern’s. Was on the radio and cable. Put forth a full campaign.” He said he did not do the normal “paper candidacy” that some candidates do. The League of Women Voters of St Paul likes to cancel forums at the convenience of the DFL candidates’ schedule.
We will list what questions are asked and when they are answered, so you can skip to a question you want to hear first. — admin
The interviewer Amy Hockert mentions the rules are Candidates can’t mention other candidates and they have 10 minutes total. All the same questions are asked of the other candidates with Candidate specific follow up questions. (We’re using the closed captioning to get the questions exact, and it’s delayed a half second or so, and the interviewer does some double starts of words). The square brackets are comments to clarify what the interviewer means or to set the record straight.
0:43 Amy Hockert introduces Mike Hilborn as a Republican
0:49 Mike Hilborn corrects her saying he is an Independent
2:02 Question 1: Public Safety & Policing: The Department of Justice is suing St Paul for it’s so-called Sanctuary City Policies which results in the release of dangerous criminals in the city. So when it comes to Federal Law Enforcement working in the city, Mike, what role does St Paul Police have?
2:17 Mike Hilborn
2:57 Question 2: As far as gun control goes, a group of Mayors from across the Metro, including St Paul, is asking state lawmakers to give individual cities the authority to make their own gun ordinances. They want to ban high capacity magazines and assault weapons. How do you feel about that? And would you join that group?
3:14 Mike Hilborn
3:31 Question 3: What would be your message to those? Because we’ve seen obviously out of the tragedy at Assumption [church shooting on August 27, 2025, Minneapolis MN], we’ve seen so many groups coming out to ask for this exact thing. We’ve seen doctors and faith leaders. We’ve seen clearly parents and family members those who lost loved ones in this. What would your message to them be in this?
3:53 Mike Hilborn
4:24Question 4: Let’s talk about the Economy. What are 2 things you would do to revitalize the downtown? We’ll talk about 1 short term right away and then another in the next year or two. What would you be looking at if you had to narrow it down?
4:39 Mike Hilborn
5:49Question 5: As long as you brought it up. Homelessness, encampments, these are issues that cities like St Paul are facing right now. What specifically would you do as it pertains to encampments and homelessness, to try to find solutions that are humane, also reasonable? We have to worry about budgets, right? When you’re mayor, what are some of the things that you would do specifically?
6:14 Mike Hilborn
7:00 Question 6: Mike tell me a little bit more about your experience as a business owner. I read somewhere sort of a second chance [employer], business owner is what you are described as by one by one outlet. What does that mean?
7:13 Mike Hilborn
9:04Question 7: I want to address the cyberattack that shut down the city services and threatened to do more damage if a ransom wasn’t paid. Which the city said it wasn’t. Where does cyber security fall on your list of priorities? And then how much are you willing to spend to bolster it?
9:21 Mike Hilborn
10:06 Question 8: St Paul is a Blue City you’re in a primarily blue state. So what makes you believe that you are somebody who can break through and have people vote for an independent candidate in this case?
10:27 Mike Hilborn
We’re posting this interview between Amy Hockert (at no time does she introduce herself) and St Paul Mayor Candidate Mike Hilborn. This is a courtesy for St Paul Voters. Mike Hilborn was not endorsed by the Republican Party of Minnesota, he is the only candidate who is not for the polices that have failed the businesses, and the residents of St Paul. The other candidates want more government involvement which will mean more expensive government and more of your income. We suggest you vote for him and no one else. There is no one else in this race for which Republican Voters can choose from who want to lower taxes and make St Paul an affordable place to live.
This post wasn’t authorized by Mike Hilborn nor any candidates committee. HD 66B Republicans are from the Areas near Lake Como, the neighborhood of North End north of Maryland Avenue, and the Near East Side out to Arcade St of St Paul Minnesota — Admin
Minnesota House District 66B Republicans 