Kurt L. Daudt is a Minnesota

Minnesota

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 politician and a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives

Minnesota House of Representatives

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 from District 17A, which includes portions of Anoka

Anoka County, Minnesota

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, Chisago and Isanti

Isanti County, Minnesota

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 counties in the east central part of the state, just north of the Twin Cities

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 metropolitan area. A Republican

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, he is also a business manager.

Daudt was first elected to the House in 2010. He serves on the Commerce and Regulatory Reform, the Higher Education Policy and Finance, the Redistricting, and the Rules and Legislative Administration Committees, and on the Taxes Subcommittee for the Property and Local Tax Division. He is an assistant majority leader

Majority leader

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 and vice chair of the Rules and Legislative Administration Committee.

Daudt served as an Isanti County Commissioner from 2005 to 2010. Before that, he was a township board supervisor for Stanford Township from 1995 to 2005, and a member of the East Central Regional Library Board. He was also a founding member of Project 24, a nonprofit organization that builds orphanages in Kenya

Kenya

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. To date, the project has raised over $500,000 and built six orphanages.

External links

• Rep. Daudt Web Page
• Project Votesmart - Rep. Kurt Daudt Profile
• Kurt Daudt Campaign Web Site
• Kurt Daudt on Twitter
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