DFL House candidate who won Roseville-area House seat seeks dismissal of residency challenge

A Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate who won a Roseville area House seat earlier this month is asking a judge to throw out his Republican opponent’s election challenge that claims he does not live in the district.

In court filings this week in Ramsey County District Court, Curtis Johnson, who won the election in House District 40B by 65% of the vote, argues his Republican opponent Paul Wikstrom “unreasonably delayed his investigation” of his residency and “failed to bring the issues to the Court’s attention prior to the election.”

Johnson also filed evidence to support his residency at a Roseville apartment in the district — including documents from the property manager showing he resided in a different unit from the one Wikstrom’s campaign had surveilled and claimed was unoccupied.

On Nov. 20, Wikstrom Read Entire Article