Question 4:

The Governor of Minnesota will be asked to come up with solutions to a variety of issues that culminate in the tension between the need to protect the environment, and the need to sustain economic development. Solutions to conflicts that have arisen through issues such as the BWCA, timber resources, agriculture, including feedlots, and others will require making difficult choices and creating consensus. What are some of the tradeoffs you see in these rural and urban issues? In your rebuttal please respond to these two questions. Can you create consensus between these divergent Minnesota interests to work out some of these problems? If so, how would you create that consensus?

BORRELL Question 4 rebuttal:

This question of consensus building has been on my mind all weekend. There are many Republicans who believe we must not only build consensus, but move to the middle, in order to be elected.

I believe we must clearly articulate the ideals and principles of our great party, so as to draw the uncommitted middle to our beacon of hope and our promise of freedom! If we look back at Ronald Reagan, I believe we will see that is exactly what he did. It worked then and it will work now. People need to have hope, not hopelessness. There is no argument that will convince me that we need a to build a consensus toward hopelessness. The conversation of hope will draw the middle to it. This same argument applies to all the other topics in our public realm.

Prepared and paid for by Borrell For Governor, Mike Wanchena, Treas.