It’s Caucus Night In Minnesota

And for our DFL friends, I present this note from Chairman Ken Martin:

Just a quick reminder:

• Martin and DFL leadership primaried the candidates endorsed by the caucus and convention process in 2018, jamming down Tim Walz (who came out of the endorsement process in third place).
• In addition, Keith Ellison was another jamdown; the party pushed him over Matt Pelikan, the candidate that oozed up through the caucus and convention process.
• Before that? The party made sure Mark Dayton prevailed over endorsed candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher in 2010.
• The last endorsed DFL goober candidate to make it through the primary was Mike Hatch. Given that he was the party’s choice over the hapless but (for the time) “progressive” Becky Lourey, that was not a big stretch. I suspect Lourey would be to the center of any choices today.
• It’s been 18 years since the caucus-endorsed DFL governor candidate got through the primary.

If you’re a DFL caucus goer, your “voice” matters only if it agrees with whoever’s got Ken Martin’s ear.