Sean Nienow

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Sean Nienow
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Republican Party

Prior offices
Minnesota House of Representatives
Minnesota State Senate District 32

Education

Bachelor's

Northwestern College

Personal
Profession
Independent Consultant
Contact

Personal website

Sean R. Nienow (b. March 9, 1968) is a former Republican member of the Minnesota State Senate, representing District 32 from 2011 to 2017.

Nienow previously served in the Senate from 2003 to 2007.

Biography

Nienow's professional experience includes working as a consultant and adviser.

Committee assignments

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Nienow served on the following committees:

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Nienow served on the following committees:

Minnesota committee assignments, 2013
• Education
• Finance
• Health, Human Services and Housing

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Nienow served on the following committees:

Campaign themes

2012

Nienow's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[1]

Taxes

  • Excerpt: "Generally speaking, I believe that we over-taxed and should not pursue more increases in taxes."

State Budget

  • Excerpt: "With responsible budgeting we can balance future budget without job-hindering tax increases, let businesses expand and grow jobs, and get the state back on the sound financial footing it was on when I first left the MN Senate in 2007- and left Minnesota with a $2 Billion budget Surplus!"

Jobs and Economic Growth

  • Excerpt: "Without employers there can’t be employees. We must create an employer-friendly environment to expand the Minnesota economy. We need to restructure our tax, regulation, permitting & licensing, and work to make get state bureaucracies in a supporting role for job creation rather than a barrier to job creation."

Healthcare

  • Excerpt: "Our health care system needs dramatic changes to help improve service and reduce costs. We must reform medical malpractice system, which now mostly benefits trial lawyers. We need to open up free market competition so that more providers can compete offering better less-expensive options."

Education

  • Excerpt: "Our education system is in dire need of improvements and reform. We need more local control with less state involvement and fewer mandates. Equity in the convoluted and archaic funding formula is desperately needed, so that schools in other parts of Minnesota are not receiving upwards of twice as much per student as our local districts."

Presidential preference

2012

See also: Endorsements by state officials of presidential candidates in the 2012 election

Sean Nienow endorsed Rick Santorum in the 2012 presidential election.[2]

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2016

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Minnesota State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election took place on August 9, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was May 31, 2016.

Mark Koran defeated Tim Nelson in the Minnesota State Senate District 32 general election.[3][4]

Minnesota State Senate, District 32 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Mark Koran 56.61% 23,992
     Democratic Tim Nelson 43.39% 18,388
Total Votes 42,380
Source: Minnesota Secretary of State


Tim Nelson ran unopposed in the Minnesota State Senate District 32 Democratic primary.[5][6]

Minnesota State Senate, District 32 Democratic Primary, 2016
Party Candidate
    Democratic Green check mark transparent.png Tim Nelson  (unopposed)


Mark Koran defeated incumbent Sean Nienow in the Minnesota State Senate District 32 Republican primary.[5][6]

Minnesota State Senate, District 32 Republican Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.png Mark Koran 63.39% 1,709
     Republican Sean Nienow Incumbent 36.61% 987
Total Votes 2,696

This candidate ran in one of Ballotpedia's races to watch in 2016. Read more »

2012

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2012

Nienow won election in District 32 in 2012 due to redistricting. He was unopposed in the August 14 Republican primary and defeated Jeske Noordergraaf (D) in the general election on November 6, 2012.[7][8]

Minnesota State Senate, District 32, General Election, 2012
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngSean Nienow Incumbent 54.3% 21,955
     Democratic Jeske Noordergraaf 45.7% 18,450
Total Votes 40,405

2010

See also: Minnesota State Senate elections, 2010

Nienow had no opponent in the primary. He defeated incumbent Rick Olseen (DFL) in the general election.[9]

Minnesota State Senate, District 17 (2010)
Candidates Votes Percent
Green check mark transparent.png Sean Nienow (R) 21171 56.01%
Rick Olseen (DFL) 16569 43.83%
Write-In 62 0.16%

Campaign finance summary

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Sean Nienow campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2012Minnesota State Senate, District 32Won $33,831 N/A**
2010Minnesota State Senate, District 17Won $30,963 N/A**
2006Minnesota State Senate, District 17Lost $47,546 N/A**
2002Minnesota State Senate, District 17Won $28,541 N/A**
Grand total$140,881 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

See also: State legislative scorecards and State legislative scorecards in Minnesota

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2017

In 2017, the Minnesota State Legislature was in session from January 3 through May 22. The legislature held a special session from May 23 to May 26.

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2016


2015


2014


2013


2012


2011

Taxpayers League of Minnesota

The Taxpayers League of Minnesota, a Minnesota-based taxpayer advocacy organization, releases a legislative scorecard for the Minnesota House of Representatives and Minnesota State Senate once a year. The scorecard gives each legislator a score based on how they voted in the prior legislative term on tax issues and “their efforts to balance the state budget without a tax increase.” The organization also compiles a legislator’s individual "Lifetime Score."[10]

2013

Nienow received a score of 92 percent in the 2013 scorecard, ranking 7th out of all 67 Minnesota State Senate members.[11]

2012

Nienow received a score of 71 percent in the 2012 scorecard, ranking 14th out of all 67 Minnesota State Senate members.[12]

2011

Nienow received a score of 85 percent in the 2011 scorecard, ranking 4th out of all 67 Minnesota State Senate members.[13]

Personal

Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update.
Nienow and his wife, Cyndy, have six children.

Recent news

This section links to a Google news search for the term Sean + Nienow + Minnesota + Senate

Sean Nienow News Feed

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "nienow," Official Campaign Website
  2. ↑ Rick Santorum for President, "SANTORUM ANNOUNCES MINNESOTA LEADERSHIP ENDORSEMENTS," February 6, 2012
  3. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "Candidate Filing Search," accessed August 25, 2016
  4. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "General election results, 2016," accessed December 19, 2016
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Minnesota Secretary of State, "Candidate Filings," accessed June 3, 2016
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Minnesota Secretary of State, "Minnesota State Primary: Tuesday, August 9, 2016," accessed August 9, 2016
  7. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "State of Minnesota Canvassing Report," accessed May 25, 2014
  8. ↑ Minnesota Secretary of State, "Minnesota State Canvassing Report - State Primary - Tuesday, August 14, 2012," accessed April 23, 2014
  9. ↑ Secretary of State Official general election results
  10. ↑ Taypayers League of Minnesota, "Legislative Scorecards," accessed May 15, 2014
  11. ↑ Taypayers League of Minnesota, "Legislative Scorecard, 2013," accessed May 15, 2014
  12. ↑ Taypayers League of Minnesota, "Legislative Scorecard, 2012," accessed May 15, 2014
  13. ↑ Taypayers League of Minnesota, "Legislative Scorecard, 2011," accessed May 15, 2014
Political offices
Preceded by
Warren Limmer (R) 		Minnesota State Senate District 32
February 2013–2017 		Succeeded by
Mark Koran (R)
Preceded by
Rick Olseen (DFL) 		Minnesota State Senate District 17
2011–2013 		Succeeded by
Lyle Koenen (DFL)


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