ABOUT NICK RONNENBERG
Nick Ronnenberg is an Army veteran and a longtime Albert Lea resident running for the Minnesota House because he’s tired of watching Saint Paul make a mess and hand the bill to everyone else.
Nick joined the army right out of high school largely in part because of family tradition. His family’s military service goes back generations, and Nick carried that forward with 22 years on active duty, including deployments abroad. After, he stayed in through the Army Reserve and served until retirement in 2012.
After the Army, Nick built a life that looks a lot like the people he’s asking to represent: raising a family, going to school, working, and trying to do right by his community. He spent years in financial services and banking, where he helped regular families and small businesses with loans, budgets, and real-world problems. Later, he moved into county work in 2016. He worked in the jail for five years and now works in the assessor’s office, which gives him a front-row seat to how state decisions hit local budgets and taxpayers.
Nick got involved in local politics for the same reason a lot of people do: because he didn’t like the direction things were going. He showed up to meetings, did the local fairs, and got heavily involved with the Republican Party at a grassroots level. He’s also been a caucus delegate for years.
When people asked him to consider running for State Representative, his first answer was honestly no. But the more he thought about it, the more it felt like the right thing to do—especially in light of the recent fraud and mismanagement running rampant at the state level. Nick isn’t a believer in reinventing the wheel just to look busy. He is running to keep what’s working, fix what’s broken, and bring common sense to Saint Paul.
Nick resides in Albert Lea. His three kids are now grown and doing well, and he’s proud of the life they built here. For Nick, this campaign is simple: protect what we’ve gained, stand up for southern Minnesota, and make sure the people paying the bills finally have a voice in the Capitol.
