Bergeron confirmed tonight that he's thinking about a bid for the DFL endorsement for the 64B seat being vacated by Michael Paymar next year. Bergeron is an attorney who also staffs Rep. Ryan Winkler's Select Committee on Living Wage Jobs.
"I've gotten a lot of encouragement and support," he says of the race, although he's not ready to commit yet. "I think I've got a background and skill set that will allow me to be really effective at the Capitol."
Bergeron also says he's got family ties to the district. His dad was a United Food and Commercial Workers member and steward at the Highland Park Lunds. His dad's a Tommie. Mom was a Katie.
Bergeron is actually a Mounds View native, and graduated from Irondale. But he went to Macalester, and like so many other alums, didn't make it far off campus after graduation. He also went to William Mitchell, where he got his law degree in 2011.
Along the way, he took some time off from law school to work on Thissen's 2010 campaign as a field organizer for the 4th, 6th and 8th Congressional Districts. He went to work for Lockridge Grindal Nauen as a legislative assistant for the 2011 session.
After Lockridge, he started his own lobbying firm, the Bergeron Strategies Group after that. Bergeron says he repped the Minnesota Association of County Social Service Administrators, an affiliate of the Association of Minnesota Counties.
You can see his LinkedIn profile here.
And when Thissen and the DFL hit the jackpot in 2012 and took the House back, Bergeron signed on as caucus staff, where he works today for committee chair Tina Liebling, DFL-Rochester. (Bergeron is also a college friend of Crosby 10B DFLer Rep. Joe Radinovich.) He hopes his background as a lobbyist, legislative staffer and long time campaigner will give him a leg up in an endorsement bid.
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