Augustine "Willie" Dominguez (born July 30, 1955) is a Democrat, and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives

Minnesota House of Representatives

The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 134 members elected to two-year terms, twice the number of members in the Minnesota Senate. Each senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B...

. He represented District 58B, which includes portions of downtown and north Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

, from 2007-2009. He lost the district DFL Party's

Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party

The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party is a major political party in the state of Minnesota and the state affiliate of the Democratic Party. It was created on April 15, 1944, with the merger of the Minnesota Democratic Party and the Farmer–Labor Party...

 endorsement to Bobby Joe Champion

Bobby Joe Champion

Bobby Joe Champion is a Minnesota politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives representing District 58B, which includes portions of downtown and north Minneapolis in Hennepin County, which is part of the Twin Cities metropolitan area...

 in 2008. He then opted to run in the primary election

Primary election

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, again losing to Champion, who went on to win in the general election

General election

In a parliamentary political system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen. The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.The term...

 on November 4, 2008.

While in the House, Dominguez was a member of the Commerce and Labor Committee and the Local Government and Metropolitan Affairs Committee. He also served on the Agriculture, Rural Economies and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee for the Veterans Affairs Division, on the Finance subcommittees for the K-12 Finance Division, the K-12 Finance Division-Disparities in Student Support and Service (which he chaired), and the Public Safety Finance Division.

Dominguez attended Minneapolis North High School and Hennepin Technical College

Hennepin Technical College

Founded in 1972, Hennepin Technical College is a public technical school, with two campuses in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal rated the school as one of the state's top 10 colleges in their July 2009 edition....

. He is a nonprofit management consultant, and also has a Saturday morning radio show on KFAI Radio

KFAI

KFAI is a community radio station in Minnesota. The station broadcasts a wide variety of music, and also airs programming catering to many of the diverse ethnic groups of the region...

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External links

• Minnesota Public Radio - Votetracker: Augustine Dominguez voting record
• Follow the Money - Augustine Dominguez
  • 2006 campaign contributions