About Us
The district is comprised of 22 counties covering 13,000 square miles from South Dakota to Wisconsin and from Iowa to the edge of the Twin Cities’ suburbs. For 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the district’s population to be 610,000 people.
Organization
The Republican Party in the First Congressional District is comprised of officers, an Executive Committee, and the Central Committee. Our Constitution is available as a web page and as a PDF.
Convention Resolutions
Results of the 2008 District convention resolutions voting are available as a web page and as a PDF.
District Officers
Here are our big shots.
| Officer | Office |
|---|---|
| Steve Perkins | Chair |
| Chuck Bradford | Deputy Chair |
| Marv Howatt | Secretary |
| Virgil Buysman | Treasurer |
| Duane Quam | State Vice-Chair |
Executive Committee
The Executive Committee consists of the officers (not repeated here because they’re above), the immediate past District Chair, and one (1) delegate or alternate from each Senate District wholly or partly within the District.
| Member | District | Alternate |
|---|---|---|
| Duane Quam | Past Chair | |
| Gerald Woodley | SD 21 | |
| Linda Chambers | SD 22 | Stan Shearer |
| Richard Tostenson | SD 23 | |
| Klarice Rinne | SD 24 | |
| Jim Gunderson | SD 26 | Doug Nolte |
| Ebenezer Howe | SD 27 | |
| Wes Moeching | SD 28 | Richard Dorn |
| Penny Loiuse Flavin | SD 29 | Kendall Koens |
| Charlie Buhr | SD 30 | Nels Pierson |
| Bill Fisher | SD 31 |
Central Committee
The Central Committee is comprised of the District Executive Committee members (not repeated here because they’re above), one or two delegates from each BPOU in the District, the National Committeeman and Committeewoman (if residents of the District), and up to one representative of qualified affiliate organizations.
| County | Member | Home City |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Earth | Jerry Groebner | Madison Lake |
| Jon Kovaciny | Mankato | |
| Brown | Greg Bartz | Sleepy Eye |
| Johann Vogl | New Ulm | |
| Cottonwood | Rob Adams | Westbrook |
| Doug Regehr | Mountain Lake | |
| Dodge | Luke Meyer | Kasson |
| N.T. Jorgenson | Kasson | |
| Faribault | David Murray | Blue Earth |
| Peggy Erickson | Blue Earth | |
| Fillmore | Keith Culver | Stewartville |
| Bill Fisher | Chatfield | |
| Freeborn | Al Arends | Albert Lea |
| Sybil Broskoff | Albert Lea | |
| Houston | Steve Bissen | La Crescent |
| Pat Morrison | La Crescent | |
| Jackson | Albert Henning | Lakefield |
| Rich Koch | Jackson | |
| Martin | Bill Barke | |
| Mower | Cindy Stevens | Austin |
| Clarence Klenke | Racine | |
| Murray | Dean Van Oort | Fulda |
| Brenda Magnus | Slayton | |
| Nicollet | Peter Trocke | |
| Nobles | Joyce McCarthy | Adrian |
| Pearl Wassenaar | Worthington | |
| Olmsted | Bruce Kaskubar | Rochester |
| Linda Kopecky | Rochester | |
| Pipestone | Deanna Bahn | Pipestone |
| Lorna Beyers | Holland | |
| Rock | Steve Perkins | Luverne |
| Bill Weber | Luverne | |
| Steele | Cheryl Edstrom | Blooming Prairie |
| Jim Gunderson | Owatonna | |
| Wabasha | Linda Hoiland | Plainview |
| Brian Keller | Lake City | |
| Waseca | Susan Jirele | Waseca |
| John Knotts | Waseca | |
| Watonwan | Jim Renz | |
| Matthew Rinne | ||
| Winona | Mike Charron | Winona |
| Paul Double | Winona |