{"id":89859,"date":"2025-08-22T07:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89859"},"modified":"2025-08-22T07:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:09:53","slug":"the-empire-strikes-back-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89859","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">28 party insiders met privately and voted to overturn our endorsement. <br><br>Let me be clear, we\u2019re still in this fight. And we\u2019re going to win. <br><br>Donate and sign up for a shift today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5zwecGZb71\">https:\/\/t.co\/5zwecGZb71<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g2SVhwlm6i\">pic.twitter.com\/g2SVhwlm6i<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Omar Fateh (@OmarFatehMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OmarFatehMN\/status\/1958655263130755201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Berg&#8217;s 21st Law is about to get its sternest test.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More in a moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Who knew there was something too extreme for Richard Carlbom?<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And his first crisis is something that he&#8217;s gonna need another gay marriage or abortion tempest-in-teapot to fix:\u00a0 the DSA, rotting out his party from the roots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The party just ni<a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">xed Omar Fateh&#8217;s endorsement for Minneapolis Mayo<\/a>r:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">DFL Party Chairman Richard Carlborn says the decision to remove the mayoral endorsement comes after a review of the challenges found &#8220;substantial failures&#8221; in the DFL convention&#8217;s voting process, and &#8220;acknowledgment that a mayoral candidate was errantly eliminated from contention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-7f0a623e=\"\">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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Huh.  So &#8211; corruption all the way down&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;according to <em>the DFL<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of battle we&#8217;ve seen pretty much every major cycle in the DFL:\u00a0 the crazy activists pick crazier candidates (remember when Keith Ellison was the rational moderate against\u00a0<em>Matt Pelikan\u00a0<\/em>in 2018?) and the state party steps in and jams down the person they want.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So is the state party strong enough to upend the city party?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berg&#8217;s 21st Law is about to get its sternest test.\u00a0\u00a0 More in a moment.\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17,320,51,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minneapolis","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89860,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89859\/revisions\/89860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}