RUSHFORD, Minn. — A rematch is in the making to represent southeast Minnesota’s House District 26-B in the Legisture. The District’s Democratic endorsement convention chose Allie Wolf of Spring Valley, age 34, for the August primary election ballot. Veteran incumbent Greg Davids of Preston, age 67, a Republican, is running for reelection. In 2024 Davids defeated Wolf 63% to 36%. Assuming that Wolf and Davids win their August primaries, which seems likely, the general election campaign may shape up as a generational battle:
> Wolf is a Marine veteran from the Afghan war era and a stay-at-home and home-schooling mom.
> Davids is an insurance agent in Preston and the longest-serving Republican in the Minnesota House with 16 albeit non-consecutive terms.
To delegates at the Democratic endorsement convention, Wolf didn’t mention Davids by name but made an oblique reference to him as long in the tooth:
“There has not been a new face representing this district since 1991 —the year I was born. Times are changing. But our values remain. My fellow residents of 26-B deserve a representative who knows what challenges the hard-working families of rural Minnesota face and who will support and fight for them at the Capitol.”
Wolf did high school at Kingsland in Spring Valley. She studied mass communication at Winona State University and holds a computer science degree. She also holds associate degrees from the Defense Language Institute and from Rochester Community and Technical College. In the Marine Corps she trained in linguistics and studied the Pashto language and Afghan culture.
Wolf. Did home-schooling during CoVid pandemic. Over the years she says she’s been both “a full-time working mom and a part-time working mom.”