Frank Hornstein

Frank Hornstein is a State Representative from Minnesota. married to Rabbi Marcia Zimmerman. Is the father of Rebecca Hornstein and Stephen Hornstein.

A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he represents District 61A, which includes portions of the city of Minneapolis in Hennepin County, which is in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Education

• Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota; B.A.; Environmental Studies and History, 1981
• Tufts University, Massachusetts; M.A.; Urban and Environmental Policy, 1985
• University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute; attended Graduate School; Policy Forum Fellowship, 1995–1996/.

Our Revolution

Our Revolution endorsed Frank Hornstein in 2020.

Clean Water Action

Co-director at Clean Water Action.

Ellison supporters

Key supporters in the 2006 Ellison Congressional campaign included Dr. Josie Johnson, Dan McGrath of TakeAction Minnesota, Larry Weiss and Pam Costain, John Stiles, Shayna Berkowitz, Carla Kjellberg and Dick Kaspari from the National Lawyers Guild, Vic Rosenthal and Frank Hornstein helped organized the Jewish community, Donna Cassutt of the DFL helped out as did Muslims Asad Zaman, Ziad Amre, Makram El-Amin.

Labor officials such as Javier Morillo from SEIU, Bill McCarthy of the Central Labor Council, and Eliot Seide from AFSCME were also invoved.

Supported Progressive Health Care Reform

In late 2009, Frank Hornstein was one of more than 1,000 state legislators to sign a letter entitled "State Legislators for Progressive Health Care Reform". The letter was a project of the Progressive States Network and was developed in consultation with national health care reform advocates, including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Community Catalyst, Families USA, Herndon Alliance, National Women's Law Center, Northeast Action, SEIU, and Universal Health Care Action Network. The letter reads in part,

"Failure to pass national comprehensive health reform now will further jeopardize state and local budgets, undermining public services like education, public safety, and transportation infrastructure... We, the undersigned, call on President Obama and the Congress to enact bold and comprehensive health care reform this year – based on these principles and a strong federal-state collaboration – and pledge our support as state legislators and allies in pursuit of guaranteed, high quality, affordable health care for all."