Rae Hart Anderson for Minnesota Senate

Rae is ready with experience that counts right now, in health reform, business and education.  You have an opportunity to elect a senator that is right around the corner, not from the government but from the community.  She has been a bold advocate for citizen involvement, for family, for fewer regulations on business and in health and education, and an advocate for smaller government.

Conscience and our MN and U.S. Constitution should count when laws are made and subtracted.  We may need to NOT ONLY REMIND OUR LEADERS BUT ALSO LEAD THE WAY, respecting our history and believing in our future.  “If our foundations crumble, what will the righteous do…?”   We will step up to the plate to leave a secured heritage for our children as our parents did for us!

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Consider if these ‘life experiences’ would be applicable at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul.  It’s time to let the grown ups lead at the Capitol.  Humility and service to the voters is what representation is all about.

Leadership and Work Experience:    Business Owner, Health Care Provider and Advocate, Educator K-12, Adult Educator, Volunteer helping family members, at  school, in health care, at church and in local political leadership.

Published:  Department of Labor and Industry:  “Outcomes of Back Surgery”  with Philip Hoversten, MD,  Occupational Health and Orthopedics; and others.

Published:  Health advocacy, monthly column as a nurse practitioner promoting personal wellness and empowerment.

Patient Care RN and ARNP:  Labor and Delivery;  Nursing Home Care, Teaching Health Care–LPNs, Certified Nursing Assistants in preparation for MN State Testing;  Rural Health Care Clinic and Home Care;  Senior Citizen advocate and health care provider, including home health care for seniors;  Home care inner city for single and pregnant Mom’s at risk for drug use during pregnancy to protect them and their unborn baby; home care for physically challenged patients in pediatrics;  Adult care–chronic illnesses like ALS, diabetes, stroke and mental health issues;  Corrections–direct medical care and referrals for male and female offenders.

K-12 licensed teacher in Minnesota and K-7 in California:  In private schools, public schools, charter schools, and  home school, working full time and part time as possible between having four children and several foster children.

Minnesota Substitute Teacher:  Woodbury Charter School, Brooklyn Park, Mahtomedi Elementary, Columbia Heights, Fridley elementary, Spring Lake Park middle school and elementary school, Rockford, California and Minnesota full time,  also in private, charter schools and home school for two of my children.

Areas taught:  Science, biology–fetal pig dissection; Physical Education–floor hockey, basketball; Health education;  English–writing and grammar, Social Studies–history and government; Special Education classes for students with special needs; Math; FACTS [home economics], music, Spanish, Academic specials classes.  Teaching children is challenging and rewarding and very difficult at times due to a general move toward less personal discipline. Managing a classroom of 25 to 30 active students is not for wimps…and the expected outcome is “an education”.  I believe we need more vocational education classes for high school students BECAUSE students like to learn how to actually do something that can bring them ‘wages’ and perhaps help pay for further education.

Adult education teacher in parenting and giving birth, stopping addictions, weight loss, medication evaluation with assessments and patient care, review of personal medical records for drug interactions and healthy outcomes.

Clinic Administrator and business owner. Case Manager for patient plans. Setting up a new clinic for Native American community with occupational health referrals, labs, health and wellness classes and direct care for new parents and elderly and emergency visits.

Homeless Shelter Nurse Practitioner:  Runaway teens assessed. Counseling and going through deliveries with pregnant teens–they did well with support and kindness.  Health care and oversight in connection with the MN Dept of Health to prevent contagious events within the facility.

Case manager: Workman’s Comp and in Urgent Emergent Care.  Helping physicians get the care their patients needed by working with insurance companies to get coverage, and to follow up the patient to assess the outcomes.  I worked to have the physician and the patient stay in charge and we avoided conflict, in almost all cases, with insurance companies.

Foster  parent of teens who were single and pregnant and who gave birth and adopted their babies. Foster parent for children whose parents were addicted to substances.

Meshbesher and Spence:  Pre-trial translating medical language, interpreting medical records and computerizing these records in preparation for a “class action” suit against Dalkon Shield.  [Thankfully this law suit was won for the people who were injured and for both Moms and babies who lost their lives due to these dangerous I.U.D.s] Intra Uterine Devices were found in many places in side the bodies of both the mother who got pregnant using the I.U.D. and in side the baby. There is a time for legal protection of those people injured or killed by highly marketed devices. Any attempt at ‘torte reform’ must not exclude assigning ‘responsibility and blame’ appropriately for actual injury and death.

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Volunteer Adventures!

At School:   Ski instructor for my kids and classmates,  Great Books facilitator,  Prom Mom for high schools where my children attended both at private and public schools,  dance chaperon, room parent.   Going to court to help victims of Planned Parenthood, and testifying as a witness of some of these abuses.

Pre-school Teacher:  Marie Sandvik Center, Mpls;   Daily Vacation Bible School;   Sunday School teacher.

Community:  Basketball coach for middle school age boys, volley ball coach for middle school girls, assistant coach, Little League,  setting up  protection plan and community awareness.

Faith and Church:  Choir, discipleship training for elementary students for many years, confirmation classes for high school students for six years, drama and dance, prayer and meditation, English classes for new Americans with a store to purchase necessities and children’s toys at a reasonable cost.

University of Minnesota:   Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship Bible Study leader for brown bag lunch crowd, International Student Executive Committee Chair, welcoming foreign students, organizing events to get to know students, organizing dinners and events with professors, special speakers and fun times, too.  Letting students from other countries experience American families and  home visits and holiday activities.

Toastmasters International: Area-Governor, President, Mentor, setting up new groups and evaluating progress of these groups for members learning public address for personal growth, business, politics or fun expressions such as wedding toasts!