Laurie Warner and Anne Neu
On Valentine’s Day, voters in Minnesota House District 32B – including the residents of Wyoming – will finally get their chance to belatedly send a representative to the State Legislature.
Though the Legislature has already been in session for a few weeks, the district hasn’t had anyone to send. The election results for the district race were preemptively nullified in September 2016, when the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that the district’s former representative, Bob Barrett, did not actually live in the district, thus rendering his then-current re-election bid ineligible. Given the proximity to the election and the inability for ballots to be updated, state law required that the votes in the race between Republican Barrett and his Democratic challenger Laurie Warner be nullified.broadstreet.zone(48036);
A new election day for the race was set for Feb. 14. After the election, political strategist Anne Neu won the GOP endorsement to face
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