# Doron Clark

Doron Clark is a Democratic member of the Minnesota Senate for district 60.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Minnesota Senate, district 60
- Serving since: 2025-02-03
- Current term: MN 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/2c27d592-c50b-45ae-b62a-ff657c828a5c

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/2c27d592-c50b-45ae-b62a-ff657c828a5c (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

0% of Clark’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Minnesota, in the bottom 5% of State Senate Democrats.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.72 (standard error 0.08), from 49 donors and 102 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 39% of State Senate Democrats score lower.

## Votes (MN 2025–26 session)

152 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Minnesota Senate 100%). Party unity 98.3% (93.0%). 1 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Third reading Passed as amended · SF 3967 Due date of the pediatric hospital-to-home transition pilot program report modification · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF3967/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Third reading Passed as amended · HF 3629 Program payment withholding provided for credible allegation of fraud, grant management provisions changed, and program integrity reports required. · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF3629/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Third reading Passed · HF 719 Safe routes to school grant program funding provided, bonds issued, and money appropriated. · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF719/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Third reading Passed as amended · HF 4492 Read Act modified, early literacy field experiences required for teacher candidates, high school diploma established for veterans, and rulemaking… · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4492/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Third reading Passed · HF 2484 Bonding bill; spending authorized to acquire and better land and buildings and for other improvements of a capital nature, new programs established… · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF2484/
- 2026-05-17 · voted nay · Motion did not prevail for urgency, rules suspension, pursuant to rule 34.1 · HF 4102 State Patrol compensation study requirements modified, and volunteer chaplains allowed within the state patrol. · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4102/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Senate adopted CC report and repassed bill · HF 2438 Taxation bill; financing and operation of state and local government provided. · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF2438/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Third Reading Repassed · HF 4188 Commerce policy bill. · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4188/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Third Reading Repassed · HF 2438 Taxation bill; financing and operation of state and local government provided. · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF2438/
- 2026-05-16 · voted nay · Motion to reject CC report, did not prevail · HF 3900 Permanent school fund investment, management, and distribution policy modified; and constitutional amendment proposed. · fail · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF3900/

## Legislation (MN 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 83 bills: 83 reached committee, 2 passed one chamber, 2 passed both, 2 became law. Cosponsored 103. 2.4% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Minnesota Senate 3.1%; rank 20 of 67).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SF 5308: Payment authorization of a retirement annuity without reduction or suspension upon reemployment of a police officer (in committee, 2026-05-17) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5308/
- SF 5307: Requirements of prorated rent modification to include an incomplete first month of rent (in committee, 2026-05-17) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5307/
- SF 5297: Licensing requirement of bail enforcement agents (in committee, 2026-05-15) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5297/
- SF 5300: Changing or adding sex indicators on birth and death records request authorization, marriage records modifications authorization, and data classification (in committee, 2026-05-16) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5300/
- SF 5293: Weight-based motor registration tax establishment (in committee, 2026-05-14) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5293/
- SF 5286: Investigative specialist grant program establishment and appropriation (in committee, 2026-05-12) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5286/
- SF 5264: Postsecondary institutions awarding specified college credits for qualifying scores on advanced placement and international baccalaureate examinations… (in committee, 2026-05-06) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5264/
- SF 5263: Certain graduation requirements for international baccalaureate program students waiver provision (in committee, 2026-05-06) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5263/
- SF 5203: Minneapolis Washington Avenue improvements bond issue and appropriation (in committee, 2026-04-23) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5203/
- SF 5202: Settlement provision of certain claims (in committee, 2026-05-14) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5202/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $36.1K (State Senate Democrats median $55.5K). 0% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.house.mn.gov/members/profile/15650
- Campaign site: https://www.david-gottfried.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dgformn40b/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/d_gottz/?hl=en
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@d_gottz

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/2c27d592-c50b-45ae-b62a-ff657c828a5c