MEDIA | April 16, 2026
Contact: press@lgulbranson.com
EVELETH, Minn. — Luke Gulbranson, hockey coach, small businessman and actor running for Congress in Minnesota’s Eighth Congressional District, issued the following statement after Congress passed legislation overturning a ban on mining in the Boundary Waters:
“I’m a proud, pro-mining Democrat but it is clear that this legislation isn’t about helping workers in Northern Minnesota. Pete Stauber is working overtime to enrich a Chilean mining conglomerate that’s going to send our precious natural resources to China. It makes no sense that we can’t keep more of our minerals and more of our energy here at home. Northern Minnesota deserves a better deal than the one Pete Stauber is offering.”
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