MEDINA, Minn. – A 2022 candidate for Minnesota governor, Kendall Qualls, has announced a new bid for the governorship. Qualls, who is 61, a Republican, withdrew from the 2022 race before the party’s statewide primary He also ran for Congress in 2020. His background is in business as as a mid-level executive in marketing at several pharmaceutical and medical technology companies. If elected he would be Minnesota’s first governor of black heritage. Although Tim Walz hasn’t announced his intentions about a possible third germ, Qualls has taken an early aim at him. “Under Tim Walz” Qualls said, “Minnesota’s public schools continue to decline.” He said that 68% of fourth-graders are not proficient in reading. “Our public school rating fell 12 spots in just three years,” he said. He favors more s[ending for law enforcement. He is the founder the nonprofit organization TakeCharge, which seeks to unite Americans towards a shared history and a common set of beliefs. He has been a reglar guest of right-wing talk-show hosts Tucker Carlson, Dennis Prager and Drew Mariani. Qualls champions the principles of meritocracy. “Free enterprise and the private sector are the fastest and most equitable way to lift people from poverty to prosperity,” he said. . Qualls volunteers on the board of Hope Farm School for at-risk Minneapolis boys.
Qualls. Lives in the Minneapolis exurb of Medina. A U.S. Army veteran.
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Qualls: “My parents, as well as my in-laws grew up in the segregated Jim Crow South, when the country was sanctioned segregation, systemic racism. A lot has changed since the 1950s and 1960s in our country. And I tell people this, my parents and grandparents would have loved to have grown up in the America that I grew up in. It is not the same. The disparities that we have today is what I call the cultural genocide that happened 50 years ago, when government programs and social welfare programs initiated a program where benefits will be paid out, as long as the husband or father wasn’t in the home. At that time, 80% of Black families were two-parent families, and we’ve gone from 80% two parent families to 80% fatherless homes in my lifetime. And there has not been one initiative to reverse the trend.”