Mary Kunesh
State Senate, District 39 · Democratic-Farmer-Labor · Minnesota
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Where they stand
Racial and gender justice: Kunesh supports ending racial, gender, and economic inequities and creating equitable economic opportunities for historically disadvantaged groups.
Conversion therapy: Kunesh supports banning conversion therapy.
Reproductive rights: Kunesh supports keeping decisions about women’s health and reproductive rights out of the legislature.
Where Mary stands on the questions on which we score all candidates
Economy and Taxes · Supports: Minnesota should keep its new paid family and medical leave program.
Economy and Taxes · Supports: Minnesota should strengthen public-sector collective bargaining and union rights.
Economy and Taxes · Supports: Minnesota should raise the state minimum wage.
Elections, Government and Rights · Supports: Minnesota should protect legal access to abortion and reproductive health care.
Elections, Government and Rights · Supports: Minnesota should add an Equal Rights Amendment to the state constitution.
Elections, Government and Rights · Supports: Minnesota should strengthen civil-rights protections and legal recognition for LGBTQ+ residents.
Health and Human Services · Likely supports: Minnesota should expand state assistance to lower health insurance premiums.
Health and Human Services · Likely supports: Minnesota should expand mental-health crisis response and treatment programs.
Health and Human Services · Likely supports: Minnesota should increase state support and service access for veterans.
Health and Human Services · Supports: Minnesota should strengthen state action to lower prescription-drug costs.
Health and Human Services · Likely supports: Minnesota should create a public health insurance option or MinnesotaCare buy-in.
Health and Human Services · Supports: Minnesota should expand state support for affordable health care access.
Energy, Environment and Agriculture · Likely supports: Minnesota should maintain its requirement for utilities to reach carbon-free electricity by 2040.
Energy, Environment and Agriculture · Likely supports: Minnesota should protect sensitive natural areas such as the Boundary Waters through permanent watershed and water-quality protections.
Energy, Environment and Agriculture · Likely supports: Minnesota should protect the economic viability of family farms and limit harmful corporate consolidation in agriculture.
Energy, Environment and Agriculture · Likely supports: Minnesota should increase state incentives for clean energy.
Public Safety and Justice · Likely supports: Minnesota should ban the sale of assault-style weapons.
Education and Children · Supports: Minnesota should increase state support to make public higher education more affordable.
Education and Children · Supports: Minnesota should increase state funding for public schools.
Education and Children · Supports: Minnesota should expand publicly supported early childhood education programs.
Education and Children · Likely supports: Minnesota should invest more in literacy programs to improve student reading achievement.
Education and Children · Likely supports: Minnesota should set higher minimum pay standards for teachers and school employees.
Education and Children · Supports: Minnesota should expand publicly funded child care and early learning access.
Education and Children · Likely supports: Minnesota should fund school safety improvements and emergency preparedness measures.
Education and Children · Likely supports: Minnesota should increase state funding for child care assistance.
Transportation and Infrastructure · Likely supports: Minnesota should expand state grants for rural broadband deployment.
In the news
Bill proposes adding Indigenous names and ‘inherent right’ for wild rice (mprnews.org, Mar 12, 2026)
The state senator leading efforts to return land to tribal nations (grist.org, Jul 19, 2024)