Abdi Daisane, a Somali-born daycare operator, has won the DFL primary for Minnesota House District 14A, setting up a November showdown in a seat Republicans have held for years.
Abdi Daisane, a St. Cloud childcare-business owner, won Tuesday’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for Minnesota House District 14A with 2,262 votes—62.52% of the total—defeating Paul R. F. Schumacher, who received 1,356 votes. The figures come directly from the Minnesota Secretary of State’s election results.
Daisane will face Republican Mike Conway in the November 3 general election. Conway won the Republican primary with 62.25% of the vote. The open district covers St. Augusta and portions of St. Cloud, Waite Park, and St. Joseph, according to KNSI’s election-night report.
Daisane, 38, was born in Somalia, spent 18 years in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, and resettled in the United States in 2009.
He later moved to St. Cloud, earned degrees from St. Cloud State University, and opened Blooming Kids Child Care Center (licensed capacity 113). He has made expanding childcare funding and assistance a centerpiece of his campaigns.
The problem? His own daycare has a documented history of state violations.
Daisane is listed by Minnesota’s Secretary of State as the chief executive officer and registered agent of Blooming Kids Child Care Center Inc. The company was formed in 2017 and remains active and in good standing, according to the state’s business filing.
The childcare center is also currently licensed. Its license is active, has no restrictions, and allows it to serve as many as 113 children, according to the Minnesota Department of Human Services licensing database.
That same official record, however, lists violations arising from five separate state visits between September 2022 and October 2025—four licensing reviews and one licensing investigation.
The most serious publicly posted enforcement document is a November 18, 2024, DHS order imposing a $400 fine for two background-study violations.
The order states that one staff member worked in a position allowing direct contact with children after that person’s background study expired, from March 20 to October 16, 2024. DHS also cited a separate failure to repeat another staff member’s background study as required.
Earlier reviews cited additional problems. Alpha News reported in 2024, based on DHS records, that the center had been cited for an insufficient number of qualified staff, incomplete staff training, damaged or poorly maintained equipment and spaces, cleanliness problems, missing qualification records, and missing medical documentation in children’s files.
Alpha News reported that the earlier violations had been corrected, and Sahan Journal reported that the correction orders had been resolved without further state action. Daisane told Sahan Journal that staffing was the center’s largest challenge, pointing to low wages, limited benefits, and high turnover in the childcare industry.
The center remains open and licensed. Daisane has not been charged with fraud in connection with the business.
Minnesota has been ground zero for enormous public-assistance fraud scandals, much of it concentrated in certain Somali-owned operations.
Feeding Our Future alone produced hundreds of millions in theft. Federal and state probes have targeted childcare assistance, autism services, and other programs, with dozens of convictions and ongoing investigations.
Viral videos and enforcement actions in late 2025 and 2026 put a national spotlight on empty or barely operating centers still drawing large public payments.
Daisane has not been accused in the large-scale fraud cases, but the pattern of regulatory failures at facilities serving vulnerable children under Democrat governance is hard to ignore.
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