Donald Raleigh (born October 9,1965)[1] is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the 38A district from 2021 to 2023. Elected in November 2020,he assumed office on January 5,2021. He lost re-election to a new District 32B in 2022.
Raleigh served in the United States Army from 1984 to 1992,where he was a member of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment. From 1992 to 1994,he worked as a salesman for InaCOMP,a technology company based in Southfield,Michigan. He was also a salesman for Entex Industries,Syntegra,Control Data,BT Group,and Creative Internet Solutions. He later worked as a consultant at Control Data. In 2002,he founded Evolve Systems,a marketing agency.[4] Raleigh also owns MYGUN.com LLC and Monitoring Management Solutions,Inc.[5]
On September 8,2022,a Minnesota Reformer article revealed that Raleigh was on the membership roster of the Oath Keepers,a group designated by the Anti-Defamation League as an "anti-government extremist group."[7] In an interview,Raleigh stated that he "disavows the group and its beliefs,and that he only signed up for a membership years ago as part of a project to conduct market research on organizations targeting veterans."[8]
Personal life
Raleigh and his wife,Marnie,have four children and live in Blaine,Minnesota.[9]
Raleigh was detained at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport in 2016 while en route to Washington D.C. after a loaded gun was discovered in his carry-on luggage. Raleigh later entered a guilty plea after being charged with presenting a prohibited item at the security screening area.[10]
Raleigh has been linked to a series of web comics authored “by Dan &Don”originally posted on the violent cartoons depicting the murder of various people by guns.[11][12] The cartoons were originally posted on MYGUN.com. The dozens of illustrations show a stick figure shooting and murdering a variety of victims,including kids,people of color,a Girl Scout selling cookies,military members,environmentalists,a blind person,an overweight person,a Jehovah Witness and a DMV employee. Donald Raleigh has never publicly addressed the cartoons,however,a MN Republican spokesperson denied the cartoons were drawn by Donald Raleigh and asserted the drawings were by his younger brother,Dan.[13]
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