Public Statement from Phillip C. Parrish, Candidate for Governor of Minnesota
December 14, 2025
Fellow Minnesotans,
I didn’t come to this decision lightly. On November 18, 2025, in good faith, I sent a detailed letter to MNGOP leadership outlining serious legal and practical concerns with the Candidate List License Agreement and Data Resource Interface User Agreement. My campaign team and legal counsel had reviewed both documents thoroughly. I flagged four core problems that could drag compliant candidates into unintended liability:
• Unilateral amendment authority allowing the party to change rules retroactively without negotiation
• Overly broad indemnification shifting unlimited legal costs onto candidates—even if the party is at fault
• Disproportionate penalties and mandatory destruction of derived work product
• A caucus loyalty pledge extending the full term of office, raising constitutional red flags
I made clear I was 100% committed to Republican values and winning in November, and I was fully prepared to sign both agreements promptly—if these genuine risks were addressed collaboratively, perhaps with targeted redlines or written assurances.
What followed? Nearly a month of silence. No substantive response, no call to discuss fixes. Then, just days ago, party attorney Nicholas Morgan finally reached out. His message was blunt: They might concede “one or two” of my concerns, but there was zero chance of rewriting the agreements. Take it or leave it.
Hours later, on December 13, the State Central Committee—without prior notice to candidates—rammed through a last-minute resolution (confirmed by party staff) cutting off all party data access immediately for any candidate not pledging to abide by the endorsement. No grace period. No grandfathering. Just starve the holdouts.
This wasn’t coincidence. It was proof positive of the very unilateral power grab I warned about in my November letter. They showed their hand: Rules change mid-cycle when it suits the gatekeepers, but candidates get no seat at the table.
That’s why, after prayer and careful consideration, I will not sign either agreement.
Signing would require me to violate the sacred trust you’ve placed in me—the thousands of Minnesotans who’ve stood with me over eight hard years of Freedom Talk with Phil, 15,000+ miles of travel, and more than 100 meetings since April alone. The reciprocal sharing clause demands I hand over your contact information without your informed consent, feeding it into a financially desperate apparatus with a long history of mishandling resources and shielding insiders.
I won’t do it. You trusted me as the original whistleblower exposing daycare fraud rings, election scams, and COVID relief theft—not to betray your privacy for access to outdated, compromised lists built on the same voter rolls the DOJ is suing to clean up.
I deeply respect the genuine Republican volunteers pouring their hearts into this fight. But the overwhelming evidence of systemic rot at the central leadership level—financial desperation, hypocritical rule-bending, and a pattern of protecting the machine over the people—cannot be ignored.
My mission remains unchanged: Dismantle the criminal networks looting Minnesota, from nonprofit grifters to political insiders. I’ll do it independently, fueled by faith in my Savior Jesus Christ and the unbreakable trust of real Minnesotans like you.
Join me at parrish4mn.com. Together, we’ll expose the rot and take our state back—clean.
With respect and gratitude,
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Governor of Minnesota
U.S. Navy LCDR. (Ret.) – Intelligence Specialist
(612) 460-1717
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