THAT OBJECTIVE, ON ANY LOGICAL BASIS, CALLS FOR THE DEFEAT OF HILLARY CLINTON IN NOVEMBER, 2016.

UPDATE:  NOVEMBER 2016

 DEFEAT OF HILLARY CLINTON....MISSION ACCOMPLISHED....

CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES TO OUR PRESIDENT ELECT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF, DONALD J. TRUMP.

NOW LET'S MAKE A,EROCA GREAT AGAIN! 

If you’re frustrated with the governance of the great state of Minnesota, you’re not alone.

Born and raised right here in Minnesota, Merrill studied at both Minnehaha Academy and Washburn High School. After a brief time at Augsburg College, Merrill decided it was time to serve his country. A graduate in Chinese from the Army Language School and the United States Armed Forces Institute, and training in interrogation techniques from the National Security Agency,  Merrill went on to work in the Army Security Agency (later INSCOM) as a Mandarin interpreter.  Merrill is a man of many hats, continuing to educate himself at Chinese Lutheran Seminary, Honeywell (in supply chain management, the Alexander Hamilton Institute, Antioch Communiversity (in both criminal justice and non-profit management), and the Coldwell Banker Burnett Real Estate School.

In 1962, Merrill moved to the Honeywell Ordnance Division headquartered in Hopkins, Minnesota. There, as a facilitator in supply chain management (specifically armament manufacturing), and later as a policy and procedure developer for the engineering sector, Merrill focused on doing the best job he possibly could. The United States Government found Merrill so trustworthy, they granted him Secret Clearances to do his classified work at the ASA and Honeywell.

Merrill didn’t stop there. In 1971, Merrill founded Reachout, Inc., a non-profit social service agency headquartered at 5th and East Lake Street in Minneapolis. Merrill started Reachout to provide a self-sufficient support system--operating without public funds--providing intervention services to individuals and families in crisis. Their headquarters housed a counseling center, a workshop and a thrift store that received public donations of clothing and goods (which was the sole source of support for the organization). Merrill’s enterprise  helped provide direct employment, crisis intervention, counseling, job training and placement, housing, as well as personal needs like clothing and furniture to thousands of individuals and families. As CEO and President, Merrill guided Reachout, Inc. through nearly 33 years of success.

Despite trillions of dollars poured into the national “War on Drugs,” the perpetuation of dysfunctional Great Society legislation, the Model Cities Program, the National Defense Highway Program, other local, state, and federal initiatives, Minnesotans are still suffering. Drug use is on an upward trend again. Core cities nationally are losing population fast. Community relations are worse than ever. Jobs, despite the machinations of current leaders in Minnesota, are like hen’s teeth--impossible to find. Worse, our education system is not preparing our children for the future. And still our politicians, like dragons eating their own tails, keep eating up more and more money from the taxpayers, with the people who are in need getting the leftovers and the dregs.

Unlike the current Governor, Mark Dayton, or any other candidate in the running for this great office, I believe I can knit together all the wonderfully disparate elements that go into building and maintaining a great state and good jobs for all who wish to work..

Vote for me, Merrill Anderson. When I say what I’ll do, I’ll do what I say