What Did Rochester Ever Do To Them (Besides Elect Kim Norton)

I was at the Minnesota GOP Convention last Saturday in Rochester. It was actually the best organized convention I’ve ever been to. Electronic balloting allowed five rounds of balloting, including speeches and arm-twisting time, between rounds.

Of course, the State Central meeting was a Bulgarian cluster-cuddle – more on that, maybe, next week.

And the initial sign-up period, where about 2,000 people showed up on Friday morning in the space of about an hour, involved some long lines and a little waiting. Now, by all rational accounts, the lines cleared up fast – the convention organizers had done their homework…

…but that didn’t stop the DFL from releasing some snarky press releases claiming that a party that can’t run its own convention shouldn’t try to run the state.

Suffice to say, we’ll be watching their performance tomorrow, also in Rochester.

Because I’ve heard from people who grew up in East Berlin in the 1970s who’ve said “Good God, getting into the DFL convo looks like a freaking nightmare:

Please take a moment to carefully read the list of precautions shown below:

Every delegate, alternate, vendor, news media member, volunteer, staff, elected official, or campaign member will only gain entrance to any space on the first floor of Mayo Civic Center during the Convention with a valid photo ID, proof of COVID-19 vaccination, and a negative COVID-19 test result. If you do not have your vaccination card, the Minnesota Department of Health cannot provide a replacement CDC COVID-19 vaccine card. If you lost your COVID-19 vaccine card, you can request a copy of your immunization record, which includes similar information to the vaccine card, by using the Docket app or submitting a request to the Minnesota Immunization Information Connection (MIIC).

The precautions listed here are subject to change based upon public health advisories from the state of Minnesota, Olmsted County, and the City of Rochester.

• All persons must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination and must test negative for COVID-19 on-site at Mayo Civic Center to receive a silicone wristband which must be shown at the security checkpoint. This wristband will be required for entrance each day of the Convention.

Go ahead, DFL. Make my weekend.

6 thoughts on “What Did Rochester Ever Do To Them (Besides Elect Kim Norton)

  1. Regarding going to East Germany, I did so in 1989, and it was a simple matter of an application and a visa stamp. And you had to change 32 Deutschmarks to 32 Ostmarks. Pretty simple, actually, because Honecker wanted hard currency that he desperately needed for things that couldn’t be made in East Germany or the Soviet Union.

    So the DFL has made a system that makes East Germany look like a paradise of freedom, actually. The only question is whether DFL dissidents will end up going to nudist colonies to escape the surveillance of the DFL in the same way East Germans did the same to escape the Stasi.

    (reason; you cannot wear a wire if you’re naked. Hence Ossies loved naked vacations because it was a bit of a reprieve from the Stasi)

  2. Given that most covid cases and most covid hospitalizations have been among the vaxxed, what is the point?
    The DFL is kind of in a no-win situation, if having thousands of vaxxed and tested people share convention space for days and its not a super-spreader, well, it wasn’t because the vaxxes protected them. And if it is a super spreader event, the vaxxes and other measures didn’t help.

  3. Repost because I can …

    “Minnesota GOP chair apologizes for Soros imagery in Secretary of State candidate’s video”

    I find it hard to believe Minnesota SOS candidate Kim Crocket and her fellow travelers didn’t realize “that the depiction of a puppet-master invokes an old but persistent antisemitic trope.” Especially with every Democrat to choose from she chose all Jewish Democrats.

    I sense a lot of back peddling from the GOP in the future….

  4. MBerg wrote: “Suffice to say, we’ll be watching their performance tomorrow, also in Rochester.
    Because I’ve heard from people who grew up in East Berlin in the 1970s who’ve said “Good God, getting into the DFL convo looks like a freaking nightmare.

    Nice to see a convention without talk of a rigged election, vaccines that do not work, everything is Biden’s fault, and pro-Putin chatter.

  5. So the DFL’rs believe that the covid vaccines work?
    Remember that on election day, MN voters!

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