Michele Tafoya

Where Tafoya stands

Grouped by topic by Vote Book; headings and quoted words are the candidate’s own, with the source under each one. “As reported” items are a news outlet’s description, not an exact quote.

Crime & public safety

Stop treating fraud as a second-class crime.

As our Senator, Michele will fight for tough new mandatory minimum sentences that put fraudsters in federal prison and keep them there

Law and Order

Minnesota was ground zero for the “Defund the Police” movement. The far left decided that empathy and endless chances for violent offenders were more important than standing with victims, law enforcement and law-abiding citizens. That same ideology still controls our criminal justice system.

Stand with law enforcement.

As our Senator, Michele will push for more funding, top-quality equipment and training for the men and women who put their own safety at risk to protect us all, and fight against efforts to remove the legal protections they need to do their job

Taxes & spending

Cut Costs and Taxes for the Middle Class

The career politicians and D.C. bureaucrats have one mission: Take away more of our money and freedom and seize more power for themselves. But no nation can tax, borrow and print its way to prosperity. The far left’s tax hikes and runaway spending got us painful inflation that is still squeezing Minnesotans to this …

Jobs, wages & cost of living

Make state leaders do their job.

As our Senator, Michele will push to strip federal funding from any state that refuses to implement anti-fraud controls or follow basic audit and recovery practices

Other priorities

Stop The Fraud

The status quo politicians let criminals steal billions of dollars of Minnesota taxpayers’ hard-earned money. They let fraudsters rob us blind rather than ask basic questions that might have seemed politically incorrect. We need to clean up our state and lead the way toward a nationwide anti-fraud agenda.