# Drew Roach

Drew Roach is a Republican member of the Minnesota House for district 58B.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Minnesota House, district 58B
- Serving since: 2025-01-14
- Current term: MN 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/7eb10c5c-1b6e-4ee2-9dac-589e3db32f49

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/7eb10c5c-1b6e-4ee2-9dac-589e3db32f49 (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

21% of Roach’s statements contain a personal attack, 7.2 times the State House Republican average of 2.9%.

## What Roach says (MN 2025–26 session)

549 classified statements: 549 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State House Republicans average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Roach | State House Republicans average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 20.8% | 2.9% | 9 of 791 |
| Policy criticism | 11.5% | 9.3% | 243 of 791 |
| Policy discussion | 27.1% | 31.9% | 451 of 791 |
| Bipartisanship | 0.9% | 1.8% | 418 of 791 |
| Credit claiming | 5.5% | 12.7% | 539 of 791 |
| Extreme labels | 3.3% | 1.4% | 117 of 791 |

Most discussed policy areas: Government Operations and Politics 39% (State House Republicans 18%); Crime and Law Enforcement 21% (State House Republicans 11%); Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues 15% (State House Republicans 6.2%); Immigration 11% (State House Republicans 4.7%); Education 11% (State House Republicans 15%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.55 (standard error 0.04), from 11 donors and 191 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 81% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (MN 2025–26 session)

288 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Minnesota House 100%). Party unity 97.2% (97.5%). 45 votes against the party majority.

Key votes:

- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Niska Motion Suspension of Rules · HF 1849 Term limits provided for governor and lieutenant governor, and constitutional amendment proposed. · fail · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF1849/
- 2026-05-17 · voted nay · Passage, as amended · HF 2354 Medical assistance fraud governing provisions added and modified, attorney general provided subpoena and enforcement authority, criminal penalties… · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF2354/
- 2026-05-17 · voted nay · Long motion Suspension of Rules · HF 5149 Law enforcement access to sensitive locations restricted, civil remedies established, concealing identity crime modified, scope of use of force… · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF5149/
- 2026-05-17 · voted nay · Repassage, as amended by Conference · SF 4612 Omnibus Health and Human Services supplemental appropriations · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF4612/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Passage · SF 334 Human Services Systems Modernization Advisory Council and Legislative Commission on Human Services Systems; creation · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF334/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Passage, as amended · SF 5200 Miscellaneous oversights, inconsistencies, ambiguities, unintended results, and technical errors correction · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF5200/
- 2026-05-17 · voted yea · Niska motion Take from the table · HF 2133 Income tax; pass-through entity tax technical correction made. · fail · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF2133/
- 2026-05-17 · voted nay · Passage, as amended · SF 1943 Pet shops prohibition from selling cats and dogs · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF1943/
- 2026-05-17 · voted nay · Passage · SF 4401 Omnibus Cannabis bill · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF4401/
- 2026-05-17 · voted nay · Repassage, as amended by Conference · SF 4476 Omnibus Human Services supplemental appropriations · pass · https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/SF4476/

## Legislation (MN 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 54 bills: 54 reached committee, 0 passed one chamber, 0 passed both, 0 became law. Cosponsored 71. 0.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Minnesota House 4.4%; rank 114 of 131).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HF 5157: Nonconsensual creation, possession, and dissemination of nudification images prohibited. (in committee, 2026-05-17) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF5157/
- HF 5114: Action of nudifying an image of another person made a crime, and criminal penalties provided. (in committee, 2026-05-05) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF5114/
- HF 5117: Parent's bill of rights created. (in committee, 2026-05-05) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF5117/
- HF 4993: Display of gas tax on sales receipt required, and indexed increases to motor fuels tax removed. (in committee, 2026-04-16) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4993/
- HF 4994: Townships permitted to regulate lawful gambling. (in committee, 2026-04-16) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4994/
- HF 4765: Orderly annexation agreements limited to ten years, supremacy of orderly annexation agreements clarified to attempts to annex by nonparties, and grounds for… (in committee, 2026-03-26) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4765/
- HF 4669: Local government noncompliance with unfunded mandates allowed. (in committee, 2026-03-25) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4669/
- HF 4659: State and municipalities prohibited from entering into nondisclosure agreements. (in committee, 2026-03-25) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4659/
- HF 4323: Individual income tax subtraction for volunteer service performed by school resource officers provided. (in committee, 2026-03-18) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4323/
- HF 4336: Child care assistance program repealed. (in committee, 2026-03-18) https://openstates.org/mn/bills/2025-2026/HF4336/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $5,025 (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 0% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-10-26 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2114746859587531196
- 2026-10-26 · Post on X · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2114817145519456402
- 2026-10-22 · Post on X · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2113333824062976508
- 2026-10-19 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2112188069843534093
- 2026-10-15 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2110719338634195210
- 2026-10-12 · Post on X · labels: personal attacks · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2109636443861643386
- 2026-10-11 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2109287508718596133
- 2026-10-11 · Post on X · labels: personal attacks, policy discussion · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2109334265146011727
- 2026-10-11 · Post on X · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2109334966794416386
- 2026-10-07 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/DrewRoachMN/status/2107857283082313984

## Links

- Official site: https://www.house.mn.gov/members/profile/15642
- X: https://x.com/DrewRoachMN
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Drew-for-House-61555679972514/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/7eb10c5c-1b6e-4ee2-9dac-589e3db32f49