Mark Koran

Mark Koran was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and lives in North Branch. Koran graduated from Como Park High School in 1982. His career experience includes working as an electronic tax administration manager at MN DOR, director of First Data Government Solutions, senior sales representative at Paydirect Government, vice president of Fifth Third Bank, director of business development at SourceHOV LLC, vice president of merchant executive consultant at Vantiv, and director of integrated partner management at Elavon, Inc.[1][2]

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Koran's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

First and foremost, WE (the citizens of Chisago and Isanti Counties) need to ensure that we receive “real value” for the hard-earned monies we pay to support our local, State and Federal government. The only way to achieve this is to hold every public official (appointed or elected) fully accountable for how they budget, manage and spend our tax dollars. There should be no tolerance for those who fail to “walk the talk” and betray our trust.

Once our fiscal house is in-order, we need to address those needs and problems that immediately and directly affect the health, safety and welfare of our community. The most basic needs, in Mark’s opinion, relate to our transportation and communication infrastructure. After all, if we can’t leave our homes or talk to our friends and neighbors, we are all land-locked. We can neither travel to earn a living or gain an education, nor obtain the goods and services we need to live. We need good roads, accessible and sensible public transportation and an efficient and reliable power grid and communication system.

Mark believes that only after our government takes care of ALL these “basic needs” (transportation, communication, public safety and security) do we have the luxury to address the other moral, philosophical or political issues that confront us.

After our government ensures that we can move about and communicate freely, it needs to act to make sure we can do so safely and securely. We all take police and fire protection as a “given”. We all expect to have access to emergency services and medical care in times of need. We all expect to have our children reasonably and competently educated. We all expect our State and National military to protect us from foreign and domestic enemies. These are the “basic” services we expect our government to provide.

Mark fully recognizes that all of us have very real and legitimate moral, philosophical and political concerns…and it is the duty of our elected and appointed leaders to address them. Mark also believes it is the primary obligation of our elected and appointed leaders to carefully and respectfully consider everyone’s issues and opinions. This is the foundation of our Democracy and the beauty of “representative” government.[7]

—Mark Koran, [8]