Correcting the Record — and Exposing the Real Attack
By Phillip C. Parrish
Candidate for Lieutenant Governor – Lindell-Parrish Ticket
August 3, 2026
On July 19 I published a statement that incorrectly cited Article V, Section 3 of the Minnesota Constitution and described the one-year residency requirement as applying “at the time of taking office.” That was wrong.
The correct provision is Article V, Section 2:
“Each shall have attained the age of 25 years and, shall have been a bona fide resident of the state for one year next preceding his election, and shall be a citizen of the United States.”
The clock runs to election day — November 3, 2026. I correct the record without hesitation. Truth matters more than pride.
The facts close the issue
Mike Lindell returned to Minnesota in 2025 to run for governor. He obtained a Minnesota driver’s license in September 2025. By July 2026 he had publicly stated continuous residency of well over a year and a half.
Under the actual constitutional standard measured to the general election, the requirement is met. Under any reading measured to January 2027 it is also met. The residency question is closed on the facts.
What Alex Plechash is actually doing
Alex Plechash already knew the constitutional text. The Republican Party of Minnesota has known it for decades. Yet on July 30 he sent a formal letter to Secretary of State Steve Simon demanding “urgent guidance” on a standard that is already plain in the Constitution, the Revisor’s website, and the official affidavit of candidacy.
He cited public court filings, invoked the Curtis Johnson case, and warned that votes might be “wasted.” He carefully claimed the Party takes “no position” on Mike’s eligibility while manufacturing maximum uncertainty right before the primary.
This was not clarification. It was timed political sabotage.
After President Trump endorsed the Lindell-Parrish ticket, Plechash immediately went public to express “surprise,” raise “electability concerns,” highlight financial baggage, and question the running mate. The July 30 letter is the follow-through: create a legal cloud, force the campaign onto defense, and try to peel off voters and resources before August 11.
When the Party leadership that lost control of the process after the convention and the Trump endorsement suddenly discovers constitutional urgency, it is not institutional diligence. It is establishment self-preservation.
The questions Alex must answer
• Why did the Party wait until after the Trump endorsement and rising poll numbers to demand “urgent” guidance on a text that has been public for generations?
• Why is the same apparatus that spent years fighting DFL residency and ballot issues now manufacturing doubt about its own leading ticket?
• Who benefits when Republicans fight each other over a residency clock that is already satisfied while the real networks looting Minnesota — the daycare fraud, the nonprofit grift, the election vulnerabilities, the open borders, the revolving-door justice system — continue operating unchecked?
The answer is obvious. The status quo benefits. The same networks that have run Minnesota into the ground for decades benefit. The Party machinery that has delivered 20 years of statewide losses benefits when the reform ticket is distracted and diminished.
We will not play their game
The Lindell-Parrish ticket corrects its own record when needed. We state the facts. We refuse to treat this manufactured controversy as a legitimate open question.
Minnesota voters — not a letter from a chairman protecting the old order — will decide on August 11.
Christ is King.
Minnesota belongs to its people, not the grifters and the gatekeepers.
Let’s take it back.