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Eric Lucero | |
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Member of the Minnesota Senate from the 30th district | |
Assumed office January 3, 2023 | |
Member of the MinnesotaHouseofRepresentatives from the 30B district | |
In office January 6,2015 –January 3,2023 | |
Preceded by | David FitzSimmons |
Personal details | |
Born | 1977or1978(age 46–47) West Germany |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Erum |
Residence | Dayton,Minnesota |
Alma mater | Metropolitan State University (B.A.S.,B.S.) University of Minnesota (M.B.A.) |
Eric Lucero (born 1977/1978) [1] is a Minnesota politician and member of the Minnesota Senate. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota,he represents District 30. He previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives,representing District 30B in east-central Minnesota. Lucero was a successful litigant in an October 2020 lawsuit which prohibited the implementation of a seven-day extension for counting absentee ballots received after Election Day,which had been put in place via emergency powers because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [2]
Lucero attended Metropolitan State University,graduating with a B.A.S. and again with a B.S. He later attended the University of Minnesota,graduating with a M.B.A. [3]
Lucero was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2014.
Lucero spoke at a “Storm the Capitol”rally in St. Paul on January 6,2021,whose attendees cheered the actual storming of the United States Capitol as it was unfolding in real-time. [4]
Lucero was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 2022.
On March 17,2025,he was one of the five Republican authors of a bill,SF2589, [5] that would designate "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as an officially recognized mental illness in Minnesota. [6]
In 2024,Lucero was the chief author of proposed Minnesota legislation inspired by the chemtrails conspiracy theory,on the basis of conspiratorial pseudoscience,with references to made-up phenomena like “xenobiotic electromagnetism and fields.” [7]
Lucero is married to Erum Lucero. They reside in Dayton,Minnesota. [3]