As a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander, fraud whistleblower, farmer, father, teacher, and lifelong Minnesotan, I’m running for Governor in 2026 to dismantle the criminal networks looting our state and to deliver a Minnesota worth fighting for—one rooted in truth, faith, family, and the constitutional republic our founders envisioned.
This isn’t just a platform; it’s my binding contract with you, the people of Minnesota. No more excuses, no more grift, no more betrayal of hardworking families. Here’s exactly what I’ll fight for, day one, in three clear commitments per area. These are promises I will keep, because Minnesota deserves leaders who serve—not steal.
Education: Empower Parents, Protect Kids, Restore Excellence
1. Advance real school choice so parents—not bureaucrats—control education funding and decisions, shattering the DFL-union monopoly.
2. Return to basics: rigorous reading, math, and job-ready skills—no divisive gender ideology or DEI indoctrination that confuses children or erases biological reality.
3. Enforce protections: biological males out of girls’ sports, locker rooms, and restrooms—ensuring fair play, privacy, and safety for our daughters in every school and public facility.
Mining: Unleash Jobs, Secure Resources, Benefit Communities
1. Open responsible mining on state lands to create high-paying family-wage jobs and secure critical minerals from American soil, not foreign adversaries.
2. Cut suffocating regulations that protect corporate cronies and nonprofit grifters while blocking prosperity for Greater Minnesota families.
3. Direct revenues to local infrastructure, schools, and tax relief—never diverted into DFL slush funds or fraud schemes.
Energy: Affordable Power, True Independence, No Grift
1. Reject radical green mandates that drive up costs and kill jobs—prioritize reliable, affordable energy from all domestic sources.
2. End crony subsidies for unreliable renewables that enrich insiders while families face higher bills and blackout risks.
3. Achieve energy independence to lower utility costs, free resources for fraud recovery, and honor stewardship of God’s creation.
Law Enforcement / Public Safety: Back the Blue, Protect the Innocent
1. Fully support law enforcement—end sanctuary policies, deport violent felons, and stop catch-and-release that empowers predators.
2. Prosecute criminals without excuses and dismantle networks profiting from soft-on-crime policies.
3. Restore safe streets and communities so families can live without fear, with police empowered to protect—not the guilty.
Taxes: Keep More of What You Earn, End the Looting
1. Slash taxes—including the gas tax—so hardworking Minnesotans keep more of their earnings, not fund endless scams.
2. Eliminate wasteful bureaucracy and recover billions from fraud to deliver real relief without new burdens.
3. Dismantle the DFL tax-and-spend machine that turns surpluses into deficits while elites pocket the difference—restore honest fiscal stewardship.
Social Security: Protect What’s Earned, Crush the Fraud
1. Safeguard earned benefits for Minnesota seniors—no cuts, no raids to fund illegal schemes or grift.
2. Aggressively prosecute fraud in overlapping state programs that threaten solvency and steal from legitimate recipients.
3. Advocate for federal reforms while ensuring Minnesota stops enabling identity theft and ghost claims—honoring honest labor.
Fraud: Audit, Prosecute, Recover—Make ’Em Sweat
1. Launch full audits and RICO-style prosecutions to dismantle daycare, Medicaid, COVID, and welfare looting syndicates bleeding billions.
2. Appoint tough commissioners who expose corruption, recover stolen funds, and send grifters to prison.
3. Empower whistleblowers and citizens to root out the DFL machine’s protection racket—until the corruption crumbles.
Child Protection: Shield the Vulnerable, End the Exploitation
1. Shut down profit-driven schemes exploiting kids in daycare and welfare—prosecute those who treat children as revenue streams.
2. Ban biological males from girls’ sports, locker rooms, and restrooms—protecting daughters’ fairness, privacy, and safety rooted in God’s design.
3. Recover looted dollars to fund secure schools, faith-based mental health, and real safeguards—because every child is made in God’s image and deserves protection from predators and ideology.
Agriculture: Support Family Farms, Cut Red Tape, Ensure Fair Markets
1. Slash burdensome regulations and mandates that crush small and mid-size family farms while favoring corporate ag giants and nonprofit middlemen.
2. Fight fraud and crony deals in farm programs, subsidies, and supply chains—recover stolen funds to provide real relief and level the playing field for honest producers.
3. Promote Minnesota-grown prosperity: secure water rights, protect family land from overreach, and champion markets where hard work on the farm feeds families, communities, and the nation—honoring the stewardship God calls us to as caretakers of the land.
Healthcare & Medical Insurance: Restore Affordability, End the Grift, Protect Patients
1. Crack down on massive Medicaid and public assistance fraud—including hidden billions in schemes like Optum cover-ups and ghost claims—that drive up costs and drain resources from legitimate patients and providers.
2. Slash administrative bloat and crony regulations in healthcare systems that favor insiders and nonprofits while making insurance unaffordable for hardworking families—redirect recovered funds to lower premiums and expand real access.
3. Promote patient-centered, market-driven reforms rooted in transparency and choice: end mandates that jack up costs, protect conscience rights for providers, and ensure Minnesota families get honest, affordable care without government overreach or exploitation—honoring life, dignity, and stewardship.
This is my solemn commitment: a Minnesota where families thrive in safety, prosperity is earned and shared fairly, kids are protected—not experimented on, and government serves the people—not the other way around. No more corporate-speak, no false equivalence—just relentless truth and action.
If you’re ready to hold the looters accountable and rebuild what matters, join me. Let’s make Minnesota strong again.
Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026
phillip@parrish4mn.com | 1 (612) 460-1717
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