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Newsline Monthly Publication of the Minnesota Service Station and Convenience Store Association Volume 35 Issue 8 August 2020 Inside This Issue MSSA Annual Golf Outing • MSSA Annual Golf Outing • Executive Letter • Minnesota Update– Special Session • Minnesota Vikings Lottery Tickets coming soon • Free Smart Thermostats for your Business 1st Place Winners: Sam Kruger, Todd Hill and Parker Hill • NATO Local Ordinance Wow! What another great turn out at the Annual MSSA Tracker Spreadsheet golf tournament held at White Eagle Golf course in North Hudson. MSSA members didn’t let COVID stop them this • Important Time Sensitive year! As usual, a well -attended event as many golfers and other guests contributed their time and energy in making this PPP (Payroll Protection once again a fun and exciting event. Congratulations to Plan) Loan Forgiveness Ap- Todd Hill, Parker Hill, Noah Rouen and Sam Krueger; win- plication Information ning the tournament, each wining $100 in cash, and a $50 Pro shop gift card. Second place winning foursome went to Todd Steffen, Dave Mathies, Chad Schillinger and Mark • Senators Weigh Future of Herzog, each winning $50 cash, and a $50 pro shop gift Commerce Commissioner’s card. Third place foursome went to Adam Ellis, Patrick Rooyakker, Karl Schultz and Nick Zeroth. Job Each winning a $50 in cash and a $25 pro shop gift card. Congratulations to the top three place finishers. • Treasury Secretary Clari- fies Executive Order Re- Now, you can’t forget about the team who finished in the garding Social Security rear, finishing in last place does have its benefits. With a score so high, Steve Cole, Zach Nordling and Mitch Weege. Withholding Each hard- working golfer entitled to a dozen golf balls. • We Card Awareness Month (continued on page 4) Hello everyone, MSSA Board Members Chan Smith, President Wow! What another great turn out at the Annual MSSA golf 651-450-9729 ‘20-’23 tournament held at White Eagle Golf Course. As usual, a Jeff Bagniewski, Vice President well-attended event as many golfers and other guests contrib- 507-285-0014 ‘20-’23 Ron Feist, Secretary/Treasurer uted their time and energy in making this again, a fun and 763-544-5512 ’19-‘22 exciting event as this year was one of the strangest MSSA Andrea Drake, Past President golf tournaments on record due to COVID– 19. 651-426-9996 ’18-‘21 Mark Olson, Past President 612-869-1244 ‘19-‘22 Congratulations to Todd Hill, Parker Hill, Noah Rouen and Steven Anderson Sam Krueger; winning the tournament. Second place winning 651-644-3436 ’18- ‘21 foursome went to Todd Steffen, Dave Mathies, Chad Schil- Joel Hennen linger and Mark Herzog. Third place foursome went to Adam 952-445-2478 ‘19-‘22 Jeff Peterson Ellis, Patrick Rooyakker, Karl Schultz and Nick Zeroth. Con- 507-452-3559 ’18–‘21 gratulations to the top three place finishers! Jerry Charmoli, Past President 763-757-6789 ‘20-’23 COVID19 didn’t stop many members and guests from enjoy- ing the fun-filled day with fun, laughter and excitement. Once MSSA Staff Lance Klatt (651) 487-1983 again MSSA members are resilient! Cell (612) 916- 9917 Nikki Steger (651) 487-1983 For the second year in a row, MSSA shared a portion of the Cell (612) 618-7075 PAC proceeds with NACSPAC. Special thanks to our head- lining Co- hosts: Cintas, Pepsi Bottling Group LLC, (best Insurance Representatives McNamara Company prizes ever!) Tecmark, and all our event sponsors! Patrick McNamara (651) 426-0607 Aleisha McNamara (651) 426-0607 Of course, a “huge” thank you to our Retail and Associate Mitchell McNamara (651) 426-0607 partners for your support in making this event one of the best golf tournaments of the summer! Hope to see all of you next Health & Life Financial Services year! Kevin Urlaub (763) 287-0055 Andy Urlaub Enjoy the summer- it’s quickly fading away just like my golf General Counsel game! Randy Thompson (952) 405-7171 Nolan, Thompson, Leighton & Tataryn Lance Government Affairs Todd Hill – Lobbyist Hill Capitol Strategies, Inc. MSSA Business Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30am-4:30pm MSSA Newsline - August 2020 2 August Anniversaries Robert Evans Kerry Bement William Feist Ellwood Automotive Valley View BP Feist Automotive Member since 2007 Member since 2013 Member since 1981 Karl Brueske Mike Tigges Richard Schneider Karmon Incorporated Napa Auto Parts Midwest V Emily Jo’s Mini Mart Member since 2013 Member since 1989 Karl’s Korner BP Member since 2007 Randy Dooley Mike Johnson Dooley’s Petroleum, Inc Jim Johnson Roger Koehnen Member since 2013 Farmington Amcon Koehnen’s BP of Excelsior Member since 1998 Member since 2007 Ron Dehn Dehn Oil Co. N Anderson Jason & Tammy Scribner Member since 2016 Bobby & Steve’s Auto Premier Propane World West St Paul Member since 2007 Zac McCall Member since 2000 Lynco Products Steven Anderson Member since 2016 Kevin Ide Electra Tune Kevin’s Service Member since 2008 Mark Molo Member since 2002 Molo Petroleum Brett Letourneau Member since 2016 Dave Kroona Citywide Service Corp Wash-N-Fill Express of Blaine Member since 2008 Tim Perisic Wash-N-Fill Express of Elk River Wayzata BP Member since 2003 Tim Schlangen Member since 2016 Falcon Heights BP Colonial BP Member Since 2008 Penn BP Steve Youngstedt Shady Oak BP Youngstedt’s Minnoco & Tom Mack Member since 2008 Auto Repair Factory Motor Parts St. Louis Park Member since 2005 Garth Alston Member since 2016 Altria Client Services LLC Mark & Diane Johnson Member since 2011 Ryan Elsner Rod’s Country Corner Chanticlear Pizza Member since 2005 Member since 2017 Hassan Warsame Jeff Bagniewski 3rd & Franklin BP Heather Kieffer Jeff’s Little Store, Inc. Member since 2011 Amish Market Square Member since 2005 Member since 2018 Dave Sullivan Jorge Samper Zelaya Twig General Store Melissa Mueller Sunray BP Member since 2012 Gaylord Shell Member since 2006 Member since 2019 MSSA Newsline - August 2020 3 (continued from front page) This year’s event also paid dividend to the 12th place team also. The 12th Place team each winning a $25 Pro shop gift card – Mark Olson, Eric Swingler and Collen Mercil. In a more challenging setting, many golfers entertained themselves in the Mtn. Dew “Zero” Challenge”. Winning the Mtn. Dew “Zero” Closest to the bottle in the fairway challenge winning a 55” TV was Howie Hogle. This year on hole #2, featured a PAC Raising event at the Steffen “Party Shack. MSSA members and guests threw corn-hole bags while enjoying cocktails. Special thank you to the Todd and Tracy Steffen and friends raising much need money for the Pac fund! Throughout the day, there were many other prize holes including betting holes to raise money for the MSSA PAC Fund and NACSPAC. On the most controversial contest hole of the day, hosted by none other than the fine folks at Tecmark. The Tecmark “Fastest team – Get Rewarded” Challenge each team had to hole out in the fastest time. Congratulations to Tom Rugg, Katie Rugg, Santino Vasquez and Tyler Miller each of them winning a cool $50 winning as a team does has its rewards! Many golfers won a variety of large prizes, from four a 65” TV’s. Gift cards, Vikings memorabilia, Trip for two to Las Vegas, Atlantis or Lake Tahoe, airline tickets and many other great prizes raising money for our Pac Fund. This year, MSSA contributed a great portion of money raised to “NACSPAC”. Special thanks to Pepsi, Cintas, Enbridge and all sponsors (see inside Newsline) all retail and Associate partners for your support in making this event one of the best golf tournaments of the summer! See you Next Year! Team: Steffen Team: Cintas MSSA Newsline - August 2020 4 MSSA Annual Golf Outing was a huge success! MSSA Newsline - August 2020 5 MSSA Newsline - August 2020 MSSA Newsline - August 2020 7 to the following sponsors/hole sponsors for an excellent golf tournament! MSSA Newsline - August 2020 8 MSSA Newsline - August 2020 9 MSSA Newsline - August 2020 10 MSSA Newsline - August 2020 11 Minnesota Update (August 12, 2020) Primary Election Results – shake up in the Minnesota DFL Yesterday was Primary Election Day in Minnesota, there were several highly contested primaries across the state involving both congressional and legislative races. With a record number of absentee ballots be- ing cast, and a quarter of the 644,000 absentee ballots requested but not yet returned, the final votes will not be known for days. Ballots postmarked on August 11th will have two days to still be received and counted. However, given the margin of victory in most races it is likely only a couple of close legislative primaries could be impacted by the delay. The most high-profile primary involved Congresswoman Ilhan Omar who is seeking re-election to her second term in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District. DFL newcomer Antone Melton-Meaux offered a strong challenge to the sitting member of Congress raising millions of dollars and exposing a large frac- ture between progressives and other traditional DFL coalition members. With more than $10 million spent in the primary between the two campaigns, this is likely the most expensive congressional primary in the county during the 2020 election cycle. Last night’s victory all but guarantees the Congresswoman will return to Washington for a second term. While she will face a well-funded Republican in Lacy John- son, the Fifth Congressional District is the power base for the Minnesota DFL and historically generates the votes needed to propel statewide DFL candidates into office. In Minnesota’s Seventh Congressional District, former GOP State Senator and Senate President Michelle Fischbach was able to top a five-way Republican Primary and will now face Congressman Collin Peter- son.