Speaking Of Strict Mistresses

Doug Grow has a hilarious piece on the DFL's Minneapolis City Convention, which was apparently organized like a Sicilian lutefisk dinner:

By 11:18, Higgins had Fifth Warders and Seventh Warders on the move. By this time, she also had shortened her message.

"Everybody stop talking but me!" she screamed.

By 11:28, the city convention was called to (sort of) order.

Party leaders were declaring that the poor planning really wasn't poor planning at all. The mess was created because DFL delegates are so excited by the party that they arrived at the convention in record numbers.

It's a good bet the party dis-organizers solved that problem for future years. A lot of people who showed up filled with enthusiasm Saturday will never want to return.

But this little crack here - Grow, on Linda Higgins' attempts to re-organize the convention around the lack of adequate seating - had me wondering:

Higgins had sort of a Republican answer to the question.

"You're going to move because that's what we've decided!" she yelled into her microphone.

Can't say as I've ever heard a Republican wrap herself in the cloak of the community to buffer her inner authoritarian. But what do I know?

By the way, the DFL endorsed Peter McLaughlin for Mayor of Minneapolis, over sitting mayor R.T. Rybak. I imagine the DFL endorsement is worth as much in Minneapolis as it is in Saint Paul (i.e., the "Kiss of Death")

CORRECTION: There was apparently no endorsement. Rumors that Mr. McLaughlin paid voters to not give him the "death" endorsement have not been substantiated.

Posted by Mitch at May 16, 2005 06:51 AM | TrackBack