Greetings,

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I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well.  I greatly appreciate the opportunity to tell you about myself.  My wife, See Vue Lee, and I have been married for 16 wonderful years, but we've loved Brooklyn Park for 17.  A year before we married, her family moved here to a beautiful home off West River Rd. in what is now the River View neighborhood (we helped name it).  It was in that house that we celebrated her family as part of our traditional Hmong wedding ceremony.  

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We always appreciated the deer and wild turkeys that also called the neighborhood home, and we enjoyed the closeness of the parks, trees, trails and nature areas.  More importantly, we loved seeing the community grow and develop, because our family was a part of it.  In 2016 we became homeowners ourselves in Brooklyn Park.  

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Today, we are all living through historical times.  Even as we try to hold onto a sense of normalcy, all of us are impacted by the pandemic, social events, political divisiveness and economic chaos that surround us.  This is on top of our regular kitchen table issues of crime, hard water, taxes, housing, small business development, opioids and an aging population.  However, I truly believe that the future belongs to those with the VISION to see it and the COMMITMENT to achieve it.

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Bringing residents together around issues brings me joy.  I'm not a politician.  I'm a community builder at heart.  As City Council Member for the East District I'll engage our collective voices and champion our causes within the city, but also with our neighboring cities, school boards, at the county, regional and state levels, on national issues, and even internationally through exchanges with our sister cities and other wonderful programs. 

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Brooklyn Park is a city of tomorrow.

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So, rise with me my fellow residents and neighbors.  Let us meet tomorrow's challenges today and keep moving Brooklyn Park forward, TOGETHER!

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Sincerely,

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 Xp