Tracey Breazeale, Minnesota House 45A: ‘I’ll always listen’

By Steve Share, Minneapolis Labor Review editor

MINNETONKA BEACH — On labor issues, Tracey Breazeale says, “I promise I’ll always listen and do everything I can to support workers and their communities.”

Breazeale is running for the Minnesota House District 45A seat, which encompasses communities west of Lake Minnetonka. She is endorsed by the Minnesota AFL-CIO and the DFL Party.

The one-term Republican incumbent, Andrew Meyers, earned only a nine percent Minnesota AFL-CIO voting score on working families issues in 2024. Over his two years in the House, he scores 20 percent.

“My opponent casts himself as a moderate,” Breazeale says, “but his voting record does not support that.”

“It’s an obligation in a democracy that the voters know what the person in office is doing or not doing for them,” Breazeale says.

Breazeale is currently a member of the Minnetonka Beach City Council, serving a second term. She is a 25-year area resident. “I originally ran wanting to bring the community together,” she says.

“What I’ve learned more about than I ever imagined was infrastructure,” she says. Minnetonka Beach needed to put in a new water tower and water plant.

“I learned how important it is to have people in the legislature really advocating for our community,” Breazeale says.

Breazeale grew up in the west Minneapolis suburbs, leaving the state for college. She earned her undergraduate degree at Brown University and an MBA at Harvard. After a business career, her focus now is public service.

Breazeale’s brother Ty Thayer is a teacher at Breck School and Education Minnesota member.

“To union members, our people who are working in jobs across the state, whether teachers, healthcare workers, construction workers, they are the foundation of everything that gets done in this state,” she says.

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