My name is Joe Brothers and I started working at a young age delivering newspapers in my hometown. I graduated from high school, then college, married the love of my life and my best friend, taught for 11 years, coached football and basketball, and started a family. When our third child was born and the costs of day care were as much as or more than my paycheck, my wife and I discussed and decided to have me become a stay-at-home dad.

I stayed home for five years while our children were young and then, once our youngest started kindergarten, I started working for Wells Fargo. While at Wells Fargo, I rose through the company to become a Vice President in the Home Mortgage division.

I will bring the experiences of my life and work plus the experiences of others to the State Capitol in St. Paul to solve the problems facing the state of Minnesota. I'm also connecting, listening, learning, and remaining focused on the issues that matter the most to the people of Waconia, Victoria, Chaska, Cologne, Mayer, and the surrounding townships. I'm also working to make St. Paul look more like Carver County and rural Minnesota.

I have three adult children and I live in the small town of Victoria. I absolutely love the beautiful downtown with the bike path running over the old railroad bed and Carver Park Reserve within minutes. I like hearing the families and kids playing, the swans, cranes, geese, ducks, and, the occasional pheasant, flying, and the birds chirping.

I love to hunt, fish, hike, cross country and downhill ski, snowshoe, snowmobile, enjoy the lakes in the summer, and drive around rural Minnesota. I enjoy sporting clays, trap, and skeet as well as shooting guns at shooting ranges. I'm at home at a rodeo, a tractor pull, a sprint car race, a farmers market, on a lake, at a theater performance, or at an art fair.

On certain days, when the wind is blowing just right, he can smell the manure from the dairy farm across the road while walking around his neighborhood with the family dog, Bentley. It reminds him of home and brings back fond memories from growing up in Montana.