Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Governor of Minnesota 2026
A school board member just sent me a screenshot from her district’s personnel policy. Under the heading “Private Personnel Data,” it lists all the things taxpayers and parents can’t touch: home addresses, personal phone numbers, personal emails, dates of birth, even emails between the union and teachers (members, non-members, prospective members).
Then comes the yellow-highlighted gut punch:
“Notwithstanding classification by any other provision of Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 13, upon request from an exclusive representative, personnel data must be disseminated to labor organizations…”
That’s Minnesota Statutes § 13.43, Subdivision 6 — still the law in 2026, word for word. “Exclusive representative” means the local teachers’ union (District Education Associations, hooked into Education Minnesota / AFT). They snap their fingers and the district must hand over the full dossier for union elections, grievances, and “implementing” the public-sector labor racket in chapters 179 and 179A. Districts get a liability shield for complying. Parents, taxpayers, and even most board members get told “sorry, private.” The cartel gets the Rolodex.
This isn’t a glitch. It’s the machine working exactly as designed.
I missed some of the fine print on this when I was still on active duty chasing terrorists and their financiers overseas. When I finally rotated home and went through 27 principal interviews across Minnesota in 2017, the questions weren’t about kids or learning — they were scripted gotchas: “Did you vote for President Trump?” Every single discipline scenario they threw at me was about handling a “Trump supporter bullying a non-Trump supporter.” Statewide script. Coordinated. Same sickness showing up in every panel.
Now I see why. This data-harvesting statute is one of the quiet load-bearing beams in the DFL/union syndicate’s control grid. They scream “individuality, human rights, inclusion” while building the mechanisms to monitor, pressure, and punish every dissenting thought in public education.
How This Cartel Privilege Got Baked In (Timeline)
• 1970s–early 80s: Public employee unions (teachers first) muscle their way into mandatory bargaining and exclusive rep status under PELRA (Chapter 179A).
• 1979: Government Data Practices Act (Chapter 13) passes — “privacy” for public employees.
• 1981: Unions immediately whine that actual privacy is cramping their style. Legislature obediently adds Subd. 6 — the “notwithstanding” override so the cartel can still get the goods.
• Decades of tweaks: Minor language cleanups, but the core carve-out stays sacred.
• 2023 (c. 53, art. 11): DFL supermajority flips it from “may” to “must,” adds explicit liability immunity for districts, and ties it tighter to proactive data dumps (new hires within 20 days, full lists every 120 days).
• 2024 (c. 127, art. 8): Another reinforcement round. Still rock-solid in 2026. No repeal. No reform. Just more armor for the grift.
This is old news only to the people who benefit from it staying buried.
The Real Motivation — Control, Not “Representation”
Official story: Unions need this to “fairly represent” employees and run grievances.
Raw truth: It’s a surveillance and enforcement tool for the same network looting school budgets, shielding incompetence, and turning classrooms into political factories. Home addresses, personal cells, private emails — the stuff real privacy laws are supposed to protect — get fed straight to union bosses so they can:
• Hunt down teachers who won’t toe the line.
• Manufacture grievances to keep districts paralyzed.
• Run internal elections and get-out-the-vote ops with taxpayer-funded data.
• Keep the dues and coerced political loyalty flowing to the DFL machine.
“Private” is theater for the peasants. The syndicate gets the dossier. This is Munchausen by proxy meets Stockholm syndrome on a statewide scale: the abusive perpetrator demands total control while claiming it’s for your own good. Teachers are told they’re protected. They’re not. They’re assets in a rigged game.
Every public school district in Minnesota is legally handcuffed by this. Faribault. Minneapolis. Rural outstate. All of them. School boards that try to push back get labeled anti-labor while the union quietly builds its files.
This Is the Core DFL Sickness
Scream about rights on the stump. Build the apparatus for total control behind the scenes. Rig the game so the people funding the system (taxpayers and parents) are locked out while the permanent political class and their nonprofit-corporate-street-level partners feast.
No wonder Minnesota’s schools are producing kids who can’t read or do math but sure as hell know the approved political script. The machine isn’t broken — it’s working perfectly for the people who wrote the rules.
The Hope — And What We’re Going to Do About It
Real teachers and real parents are sick of this. Good educators who just want to teach without a union file hanging over their head. Families who want schools that answer to them, not to the cartel.
Under a Parrish administration we end the sacred-cow status for Education Minnesota and every other public-sector union racket. We repeal the “notwithstanding” carve-outs that turn private data into union weapons. We restore real local control to school boards and parents. We free teachers to focus on kids instead of union politics. We build a constitutional republic in Minnesota where government serves the citizen — not the syndicate.
This isn’t hate. It’s truth. And truth, as my Savior taught, sets people free.
The DFL machine and their union enforcers have had their run. The looting, the rigging, the quiet dossiers — it ends when enough Minnesotans stand up and say enough.
If you’re a teacher tired of the pressure, a parent done watching your kids’ future get sacrificed on the altar of union power, or a taxpayer who’s had it with funding your own political opposition — this is your fight too.
Contact the campaign:
Heidi Wanty, Campaign Manager – heidi@parrish4mn.com
(612) 460-1717
Or follow the fight on X @phillipcparrish and @parrish4mn.
In Christ and with zero tolerance for the grift,
Phillip C. Parrish
Retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander
Fraud whistleblower. Farmer. Father. Lifelong Minnesotan.
Candidate for Governor 2026
Let’s dismantle the networks. Let’s restore Minnesota. The lid is coming off.
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