Berg’s 21st Law is about to get its sternest test.
More in a moment.
Who knew there was something too extreme for Richard Carlbom?
The longtime DFL strategist, the guy behind getting gay marriage ensconced in the Minnesota Constitution, replaced Ken Martin as chair of the MNDFL after Ken Martin moved on to a star-studded reign at the DNC.
And his first crisis is something that he’s gonna need another gay marriage or abortion tempest-in-teapot to fix: the DSA, rotting out his party from the roots.
The party just nixed Omar Fateh’s endorsement for Minneapolis Mayor:
DFL Party Chairman Richard Carlborn says the decision to remove the mayoral endorsement comes after a review of the challenges found “substantial failures” in the DFL convention’s voting process, and “acknowledgment that a mayoral candidate was errantly eliminated from contention.”
The CRBC findings after the review show that the voting system for endorsement produced a very inaccurate count of the first, undercounted by 176 votes.
The findings also state that the entire Ward 5 credentials books were lost by the Minneapolis DFL, causing delegates to have to re-establish delegate status. Additionally, the master check-in sheet at registration was not properly secured.
Huh. So – corruption all the way down…
…according to the DFL?
This is the sort of battle we’ve seen pretty much every major cycle in the DFL: the crazy activists pick crazier candidates (remember when Keith Ellison was the rational moderate against Matt Pelikan in 2018?) and the state party steps in and jams down the person they want.
So is the state party strong enough to upend the city party?
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