Rep. Angie Craig represents Minnesota’s Second Congressional District. She is fighting for working families - and for a Minnesota where every member of every family gets a fair shot. That means a future with lower health care costs and opportunities for career skills and technical training for 21st century jobs. She’ll work with anybody - and take on the Washington establishment - to get things done for her constituents.
Rep. Craig learned the value of hard work from her mother, a single mom who raised three children while earning her teaching degree. She too worked two jobs to help put herself through college. Years later, she moved to Minnesota and fell in love with the strong communities and quality of life. She and her wife Cheryl Greene have four sons – three who have already graduated from college or tech school and one who graduated from Rosemount High School in 2021 and is currently a college student. They lived in Eagan for nearly a decade and recently moved to Prior Lake. Angie attends church in Apple Valley and is a Rotarian who has served on several local community boards over the years. She is a small business investor, the former head of Global HR and Corporate Relations for a major Minnesota manufacturer, and a former newspaper reporter.
Local law enforcement officers put their lives on the line to protect and serve their communities – oftentimes working on strained budgets without the equipment and training they need to reduce crime and keep Minnesotans safe. I’m pleased to help lead legislation to ensure our smaller and mid-size police departments have the resources necessary to do their jobs safely and effectively.
That’s why I have worked hand-in-hand with local law enforcement leaders to draft and submit applications for federal grant dollars to support hiring, equipment and technology programs – including police departments in South St. Paul, West St. Paul, Burnsville and Inver Grove Heights. Earlier this year, I was proud to secure $170,000 for the Dakota County Sheriff’s Department to purchase additional body-worn cameras. And it’s why I introduced the Invest to Protect Act, a bipartisan bill to provide $50 million in grants for small and mid-sized police departments to invest in training, equipment, personnel support, and mental health resources. And, after hearing the story of Farmington resident Katie Slifko, I introduced the bipartisan Public Safety Officer Support Act, which would allow officers to access disability benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges that arise as a result of their service in the line of duty – and expand the program to ensure that families of officers who lost their lives to trauma-linked suicide can apply for the death benefits that they deserve. This is in honor of her husband Cory, a South St. Paul police officer who died by suicide.
I believe that our country needs both a more just law enforcement system and our valued police officers to truly keep our communities safe. Like most Minnesotans, I believe that we can accomplish both of those goals if we set politics aside and work together – and that’s exactly what I’ve done in Washington and in Minnesota.