About Tracey Breazeale
Who is Tracey Breazeale?
Tracey Breazeale is a former business executive with decades of experience in finance and business strategy, including years at Boston Consulting Group and Sleep Number. She left the private sector to raise her four kids and has lived in the Lake Minnetonka area for over 25 years. She served two terms on the Minnetonka Beach City Council, where she helped lead the effort to build a new water treatment facility that eliminated PFAS from the city’s drinking water. Tracey also has significant nonprofit leadership experience, including serving on the board of Jeremiah Project and the Development Committee of the Minneapolis Crisis Nursery.
What district is Tracey Breazeale running in?
Tracey Breazeale is running for the Minnesota House in District 45A, which includes the Lake Minnetonka area communities of Excelsior, Greenwood, Long Lake, Minnetonka Beach, Minnetrista, Mound, Orono, Spring Park, St. Bonifacius, Tonka Bay, and part of Shorewood (P-1 and P-2).
Why is Tracey Breazeale running for the Minnesota House?
Tracey believes Minnesota needs leaders who will stand up for what’s right, even when it’s hard. With the need for gun violence prevention, the Boundary Waters under threat, unconstitutional attacks from the federal government, and fraud taking resources from the state’s most vulnerable residents, Tracey says Minnesotans can’t afford political games or complacency. She’s running to be a strong, independent voice in St. Paul who represents the people of District 45A — not special interests, not the party line. Tracey wants to make sure Minnesota remains a place that the next generation wants to call home too — with great career and entrepreneurial opportunities, affordable homes, good schools, and safe communities.
What is Tracey Breazeale’s education and professional background?
Tracey started her career in investment banking after earning her degree in Psychology and Economics from Brown University. She later earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and worked in business strategy for clients across retail, financial services, and medical technology during her time with Boston Consulting Group and Sleep Number. Tracey is also a nonprofit leader, serving on the board of the Jeremiah Project, the Development Committee of the Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, and previously on the board of Milkweed Editions. She also currently owns a small business with her husband.
Does Tracey Breazeale have government experience?
Yes. Tracey served two terms on the Minnetonka Beach City Council, where she was a liaison to the Parks Commission, Dock Committee, and local Civic Committee. She says that experience taught her that the best solutions come from listening to constituents and working with people who don’t always share her perspective. See endorsements from fellow local elected officials at https://traceyformnhouse.com/endorsements.
Is Tracey Breazeale a parent? Does Tracey Breazeale have kids?
Yes, Tracey is a mom of four, giving her firsthand experience with the pressures Minnesota families face. She and her husband Jeff chose to come back to Minnesota because they wanted their kids to have a similar childhood to what she had growing up in Minnesota, with great schools, safe neighborhoods, outdoor recreation, and supportive communities. Tracey wants to make sure Minnesota remains a place the next generation wants to call home too—with great career and entrepreneurial opportunities, affordable homes, good schools, and safe communities.
Where Tracey Breazeale Stands on the Issues
What are Tracey Breazeale’s top priorities if elected?
Tracey’s top priorities include:
- fiscal responsibility and stopping fraud,
- reducing gun violence,
- lowering everyday costs like health care and child care,
- streamlining business regulations to make it easier to start and grow a business,
- reforming the tax structure for economic competitiveness,
- strengthening education from early childhood to career,
- defending Minnesota from federal overreach,
- and protecting the environment.
What will Tracey Breazeale do about fraud, waste, and abuse in state government?
Tracey won’t tolerate any amount of fraud or waste in government, and will use her decades of business and finance experience to stop fraud, optimize operations, protect your tax dollars, and ensure public funding benefits those it’s intended to help. To address fraud in state government, Tracey supports a top-to-bottom audit of state agencies, better training and modern technology to better detect fraud, expanding state agencies’ authority to prevent fraud and recover stolen funds, and ensuring the justice system has the resources to investigate and prosecute every case. Tracey believes that fiscal responsibility is about more than just stopping fraud, and that the government should regularly review programs to ensure they are both efficient and effective; Tracey will improve transparency of and accountability for how tax dollars are spent
Where does Tracey Breazeale stand on clean water and the environment?
Clean water is personal to Tracey; she grew up in the Lake Minnetonka area and has a strong record of supporting clean water in Minnesota. While on council, she helped lead the work for a PFAS-eliminating water treatment facility in Minnetonka Beach. As a legislator, Tracey will work to reduce industrial pollution, address invasive aquatic species, and ensure every community has clean drinking water. Tracey also wants to protect the Boundary Waters and supports the Prove It First bill, to keep toxic copper-sulfide mining out of Minnesota. As for clean air, Tracey supports expanding our clean energy economy to reduce air pollution and lower energy bills for Minnesotans, as well as investing in Minnesota companies that are innovating new clean energy technologies. Tracey is endorsed by Sierra Club, Friends of the Boundary Waters Action, and Save the Boundary Waters Action Fund.
What is Tracey Breazeale’s position on gun violence prevention?
Tracey strongly supports common-sense gun safety legislation, including safe storage requirements, limiting magazine capacity, banning assault weapons, outlawing ghost guns, and strengthening extreme risk protection orders (ERPO) as supported by law enforcement. She also knows that reducing gun violence requires better access to mental health care and economic stability. Tracey will address gun violence holistically—not just the parts that are politically convenient. Tracey is the only Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate in the race.
FACT: Rep. Andrew Myers voted AGAINST all gun violence prevention bills, including: limiting high-capacity magazines (HJP 5220, 3/26/26), restricting assault weapons (HJP 5217, 3/26/26), universal background checks (HJP 8025, 5/15/23), extreme risk protection orders (HJP 8025, 5/15/23), safe storage requirements (HJP 15593, 5/02/24), and banning binary trigger devices (HJP 17332, 5/17/24). Rep. Andrew Myers is endorsed by the NRA (National Rifle Association).
What is Tracey Breazeale’s economic policy?
Tracey is well-equipped to boost Minnesota’s economy as a small business owner and former corporate business executive with a Harvard MBA. Tracey will support balanced economic policies that help small businesses, large industries, and the workers who power them. Tracey’s economic action plan includes streamlining business regulations to make it easier to start and run a business, reforming the tax structure to improve economic competitiveness, expanding skilled trades training to create well-paying job opportunities, and ensuring working parents have access to affordable child care and early childhood education.
What will Tracey do to lower costs and improve affordability?
As a mom of four, Tracey says she understands the pressures Minnesota families face and will focus on sustainable, long-term cost savings. Tracey supports increasing housing at a range of price points, capping property taxes, ending the state tax on Social Security, expanding access to childcare and early childhood education, lowering out-of-pocket healthcare costs like premiums and prescription drugs, and working with our congress members to stop cuts in federal funding.
Where does Tracey Breazeale stand on education?
Tracey is proud of our excellent local schools and wants to make sure they have the resources they need to continue improving. Tracey will collaborate with teachers, superintendents, and school boards to support world-class public education for every Minnesotan, from early childhood through career and technical training. Tracey opposes private school vouchers because they defund public schools. Tracey supports the amendment to change the Permanent School Fund formula to increase school funding without increasing taxes.
FACT: Rep. Andrew Myers supports private school vouchers and authored a bill to fund private school scholarships with public tax dollars. (HF3490, 2026) Rep. Andrew Myers also voted AGAINST school meals for K-12 students (HJP 798, 2/9/23) and AGAINST Child Care Assistance (HJP 847, 2/13/23).
Will Tracey support increasing the state’s per-pupil investment in public education more than the minimum inflationary amount to help maintain current programs and staffing levels?
Yes, Tracey supports increasing the state’s per-pupil investment in public education to help maintain current programs and staffing levels. She believes adjusting the Permanent School Fund formula to increase school funding without increasing taxes is a great way to do this.
Will Tracey support giving local communities greater flexibility to fund their schools by lifting caps on voter-approved levies and school board-approved Local Optional Revenue?
Yes, Tracey supports giving local communities greater flexibility to fund their schools by lifting caps on voter-approved levies and school board-approved Local Optional Revenue.
Will Tracey commit to reducing or eliminating proposed reductions to special education funding?
Yes, Tracey is committed to eliminating proposed reductions to special education funding.
Does Tracey support the constitutional amendment to increase the permanent school fund distribution?
Yes, Tracey supports the constitutional amendment on this year’s ballot because adjusting the Permanent School Fund formula will increase school funding without increasing taxes.
Where does Tracey Breazeale stand on ICE activity in Minnesota?
Tracey has said she’s deeply troubled by the excessive and often violent actions ICE has taken in the state; the inaction and silence on Operation Metro Surge from our current representative is one reason she decided to run. Tracey believes that federal law enforcement should have to follow the same rules as our local law enforcement; she supports banning federal agents from schools, daycares, hospitals, and places of worship unless they have a valid judicial warrant, prohibiting agents from concealing their identities with masks, working with state agencies to hold federal law enforcement accountable for misconduct, and allowing citizens to sue when their constitutional rights are violated.
FACT: Rep. Andrew Myers voted AGAINST keeping ICE agents out of schools without a judicial warrant (HJP 5215, 3/26/26) and AGAINST prohibiting federal agents from wearing masks (HJP 4746, 3/2/26).
Does Tracey Breazeale support the police and other first responders?
Tracey has a strong record of supporting first responders as evident by her work on city council where she fully funded the police department and supported the Long Lake firefighters. Tracey supports giving police the tools and training they need to fight crime, expanding mental health resources for first responders, and building safe staffing levels through better recruitment and retention. Tracey has personal insight into law enforcement through her cousin who worked as a police officer.
FACT: Rep. Andrew Myers voted AGAINST direct funding for our local police and fire departments including police recruitment and training, crisis response grants, and supplying first responders with overdose medication (HJP 8025, 5/15/23).
What is Tracey Breazeale’s approach to local infrastructure?
As a recent city council member, Tracey understands the challenges cities face in delivering essential public services and knows that maintaining infrastructure is critical for public safety. During her two terms on city council, Tracey was instrumental in getting a new water treatment plant in her city, including PFAS treatment. Tracey supports leveraging bonding to fund local infrastructure in a fiscally sustainable way.
FACT: Rep. Andrew Myers voted AGAINST the Highway 7 Safety Study (HJP 10452, 5/21/23) and AGAINST forming the Highway 7 Corridor Coalition (HJP 19606, 5/19/24).
Is Tracey Breazeale pro-choice?
Yes, Tracey Breazeale supports your right to make informed medical decisions without interference from the government. She will work to protect access to the full range of reproductive health care, including contraceptives, infertility treatment, and abortion. Tracey is endorsed by Planned Parenthood and Pro-Choice Minnesota.
FACT: Rep. Andrew Myers voted AGAINST The Protect Reproductive Options Act which codified our right to make reproductive health care decisions and access care (HJP 234, 1/19/23). Rep. Andrew Myers also voted AGAINST The Reproductive Freedom Defense Act, which safeguards our private medical records and protects patients and doctors from prosecution in other states (HJP 7101, 4/26/23).
How will Tracey Breazeale support seniors?
Tracey believes seniors should be able to enjoy their well-earned retirement and stay in their communities. Tracey supports ending the state tax on social security, capping property taxes, making health care more affordable, and other legislation that would help our seniors thrive.
Party & Approach
Is Tracey Breazeale a Democrat or Republican?
Tracey Breazeale is a fiscally-responsible, moderate Democrat and the DFL-endorsed candidate for HD 45A. But Tracey knows Minnesotans are tired of partisan gridlock, and she will be an independent, pragmatic voice at the Capitol who works across the aisle to get results—not someone who rubber-stamps a party line.
Does Tracey Breazeale accept donations from PACs or lobbyists?
No, Tracey Breazeale does not accept contributions from any political action committees (PACs) or lobbyists, including corporate PACs. Tracey believes we need campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics; she is running to represent the people of District 45A, not special interests.
FACT: Rep. Andrew Myers has taken the maximum amount of contributions from PACs and lobbyists, according to public finance reports and an e-newsletter from his campaign.
Endorsements
Who has endorsed Tracey Breazeale?
Tracey is endorsed by Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Tina Smith, Congresswoman Kelly Morrison, former Congressman Dean Phillips, County Commissioner Kevin Anderson, Everytown for Gun Safety, Minnesota Nurses Association, Education Minnesota, Friends of the Boundary Waters Action Network, Sierra Club, Save the Boundary Waters Action Fund, Planned Parenthood, Pro-Choice Minnesota, several labor unions, and numerous local elected officials. She also holds a Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate designation and a FairVote Minnesota Democracy Champion designation. See all of Tracey’s endorsements at https://traceyformnhouse.com/endorsements.
Get Involved
How can I volunteer for the campaign?
Supporters can visit traceyformnhouse.com to sign up to knock doors, phone bank, text bank, or host a meet-and-greet.
How can I donate to Tracey’s campaign?
Donations can be made securely at traceyformnhouse.com/donate.
Where can I follow the campaign?
Tracey for Minnesota House can be found on social media @traceyformnhouse on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Bluesky, and TikTok.
When is the election?
Election Day 2026 is November 3rd. Early voting by absentee ballot begins September 18th, and early in-person voting begins October 16th. Visit mnvotes.gov for more information.
How do I know if I’m in District 45A?
You can look up your district at https://pollfinder.sos.mn.gov. Minnesota District 45A includes the Lake Minnetonka area communities of Excelsior, Greenwood, Long Lake, Minnetonka Beach, Minnetrista, Mound, Orono, Spring Park, St. Bonifacius, Tonka Bay, and part of Shorewood (P-1 and P-2).
Who should I vote for in the Minnesota House 45A race?
You should vote for Tracey Breazeale, the leader you can trust!