Scott Jensen (Minnesota politician)

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In January 2021, just after he retired from the State Senate, Jensen was viewed as a potential Republican candidate for governor in the 2022 election, challenging Democratic incumbent Tim Walz, and said he planned to decide whether to run in the coming months. [14] In March 2021, Jensen announced his candidacy. [16] [17] He named former Minnesota Vikings player Matt Birk as his running mate. [18] He took an early polling and fundraising lead among Republican candidates in the primary, [4] running against former Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, Lexington Mayor Mike Murphy, and others. [19] (State Senator Michelle Benson also sought the nomination, but dropped out of the race.) [20] Jensen won a Carver County Republican Party straw poll by a wide margin during the 2022 Republican primary campaign for governor. [21]

In May 2022, Jensen attacked Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon for his operation of the state's election system, suggesting that Simon should go "to jail" without providing any evidence that Simon had done anything illegal. [22] Jensen's comments were part of a larger trend of Republican candidates casting doubt on election results in the wake of Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election was rigged against him, a falsehood promoted by many Republican candidates and believed by many Republican voters. [23] Simon called Jensen's comments "bizarre and irresponsible" and "a cynical attempt to use extreme conspiracy theories to radicalize political supporters." [22]

At the May 2022 Minnesota Republican convention, Jensen won the party's endorsement on the ninth round of voting among the 2,100 delegates, defeating Lexington Mayor Mike Murphy and businessman Kendall Qualls. [24] In the August 2022 primary election, Jensen faced only minor opposition. [25] In the November 8 general election, Jensen lost to incumbent governor Tim Walz by over seven percentage points, 52.3% to 44.6%. He fared better than Walz's opponent had in 2018 and made gains against Walz in Greater Minnesota, but he did not overcome Walz's wide lead in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. [26] [27]

Political positions

Jensen had a reputation as a moderate Republican during his tenure in the state senate. [11] [2] His views shifted to the right after he left the Senate. [11] [2] [28] Jensen's shift surprised allies and reflected a broader movement of the Republican Party under Donald Trump. [2]

Abortion

While campaigning for the governorship, when asked about the potential reversal of Roe v. Wade , Jensen said that if elected, "I would try to ban abortion." [4] He said that he supported a ban of all abortions unless a mother's life is in danger, with no exemptions for cases of rape or incest. [29] [30] Jensen's running mate, Matt Birk, has said that women "always want to go to the rape card" and opposed abortions for rape victims. [31] [32] Later in his 2022 campaign, Jensen moderated his position on abortion, taking a stance that would permit several exceptions. [33] [34] In a September 2022 television ad and in public appearances, he referred to the Minnesota Supreme Court's 1995 decision Doe v. Gomez, which held that abortion in Minnesota is a protected constitutional right; Jensen noted that the governor lacked the power to change that ruling, and that he was not running to do so. [34] [30] [35]

Cannabis

While in the Senate, Jensen supported holding an informational hearing on Senator Melisa Franzen's and Representative Mike Freiberg's bill to legalize marijuana in Minnesota. He said he did not endorse the bill's content, despite being one of its cosponsors. [4] [36]

COVID-19 pandemic

In an April 2020 appearance on Fox News's The Ingraham Angle , Jensen incorrectly stated that the U.S. COVID-19 death toll was being inflated; experts said that the COVID-19 death toll was more likely an undercount. [37] President Donald Trump amplified the claim during his 2020 campaign. [38] PolitiFact cited Jensen as a contributor to their "Lie of the Year 2020: Coronavirus downplay and denial" for the claims. [39]

Complaints against Jensen were made to the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice about public statements he had made related to COVID-19. [40] [41] Jensen said that after an investigation, the board dismissed the initial allegations against him in July 2020. [42] [43] But additional complaints were brought before the Board, and as of July 17, 2022, Jensen was under investigation for a fifth time. [44] At that point, he declared that the Board had been "weaponized" against him, and said that "this juggernaut [the Board] will be dealt with" should he be elected, referencing the governor's power to appoint the medical board's members. [44]

Jensen aligned himself with the COVID-19 anti-vaccination movement. [45] [46] In May 2021, he sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in an attempt to prevent children from receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. His fellow plaintiffs in the suit included anti-vaccine activist Simone Gold and the right-wing political organization America's Frontline Doctors (AFD). [47] AFD had attracted notoriety for its promotion of false and misleading COVID-19 claims. [47] The complaint, filed in federal court in Alabama, falsely called the COVID-19 vaccines a dangerous "experimental biological agent". [48] The affidavit claimed that "it would be reckless to subject anyone in that age group to the experimental COVID-19 vaccine", and Jensen said that giving children the vaccine "would violate his oath as a doctor and place him in an untenable position". [48] In a later interview, Jensen said he had "quietly" been a member of AFD [47] and had been unaware of the involvement of the group's founder, Gold, in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. He also said he did not read the whole petition before signing it. In the same interview, Jensen said, against medical consensus, that he does not recommend COVID-19 vaccines for "young and healthy" people. [47] He was banned from TikTok in April 2021 and restricted from advertising on Facebook in July 2021 for violating community guidelines barring the promotion of COVID-19 misinformation. [49]

Jensen's views were mentioned in the 2020 COVID-19 conspiracy-theory video Plandemic . [50] He was a member of the World Doctors Alliance, an international fringe group that promoted false and conspiratorial claims about COVID-19. [38] Jensen has questioned the medical and scientific consensus that ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are ineffective against COVID-19. [51] In September 2021, he called on "ALL Minnesota citizens and businesses to participate in civil disobedience" by ignoring a Biden administration proposal to require large employers to ensure that their employees were either vaccinated against COVID-19 or took weekly COVID-19 tests. [45] [52]

Crime and guns

In 2018, Jensen proposed various gun control measures in the state legislature to expand universal background checks and require that lost or stolen firearms be reported to authorities. Gun rights groups condemned his proposals. [53] In 2022, Jensen said at the Republican Party convention that he had been on the "wrong side" of the issue and apologized for his past support of gun measures. [11] He has also called for hiring more police officers. [54]

In 2022, Jensen pledged that, if elected governor, he would commute the sentence of Kim Potter, a police officer convicted of killing Daunte Wright at a traffic stop in 2021. However, a governor alone cannot commute sentences in Minnesota. It is necessary to gain unanimous support from the three-member Board of Pardons, consisting of the governor, the attorney general, and the Minnesota Supreme Court's chief justice. [55]

Economic policy

Jensen has advocated tax cuts and spending decreases. [10] [56] During his campaign for governor, he has called for eliminating Minnesota's state personal income tax and "dramatically reducing" state expenditures. [56]

Other

Running for Senate in 2016, Jensen expressed support for abolishing the Met Council, a regional governmental agency covering the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area. [10] In 2022, he said the council would be "coming down" if he were elected governor. [11]

While campaigning for governor in 2022, Jensen proposed a school voucher program. [57] Although he did not release funding figures for a plan, a nonpartisan fiscal analysis for a similar proposal by Minnesota State Senate Republicans estimated that such a program would shift $178 million from public schools to private schools over two years. [58]

While running for governor, Jensen called for a repeal of Minnesota's Clean Car rule, a rule (set to take effect in 2024) that limits carbon emissions from motor vehicle and requires automakers to introduce more hybrid and electric vehicles into Minnesota. [59] [60] His energy proposal made no mention of climate change. [60]

Jensen has criticized the use of medical procedures for transgender teenagers and has opposed gender identify affirmation in schools. [61] [62] In a September 2022 campaign speech, he falsely claimed that some schools provide litter boxes for children who identify as furries. [62]

Personal life

Jensen and his wife, Mary, have three children and reside in Laketown Township. [1]

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Scott Jensen
Minnesota State Senator Scott Jensen.jpg
Member of the Minnesota Senate
from the 47th district
In office
January 3, 2017 –January 5, 2021
Party political offices
Preceded by Republican nominee for Governor of Minnesota
2022 		Most recent
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