{"id":87054,"date":"2024-02-27T10:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87054"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:25:15","slug":"its-caucus-night-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87054","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Caucus Night In Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>And for our DFL friends, I present this note from Chairman Ken Martin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m caucusing because as Paul Wellstone used to say &quot;The future belongs to those who show up and fight for the things they believe in&quot;  Our caucuses level the playing field so ALL voices can be heard and those without connections &amp; money can build power around their dreams. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SdKkp7w6HS\">https:\/\/t.co\/SdKkp7w6HS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ken Martin (@kenmartin73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenmartin73\/status\/1762274060799463580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a quick reminder:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>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).  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Before that?  The party made sure Mark Dayton prevailed over endorsed candidate Margaret Anderson Kelliher in 2010.    <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The last endorsed DFL goober candidate to make it through the primary was Mike Hatch.  Given that he was the party&#8217;s choice over the hapless but (for the time) &#8220;progressive&#8221; Becky Lourey, that was not a big stretch.   I suspect Lourey would be to the center of any choices today.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s been 18 years since the caucus-endorsed DFL governor candidate got through the primary.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a DFL caucus goer, your &#8220;voice&#8221; matters only if it agrees with whoever&#8217;s got Ken Martin&#8217;s ear.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And for our DFL friends, I present this note from Chairman Ken Martin: Just a quick reminder: If you&#8217;re a DFL caucus goer, your &#8220;voice&#8221; matters only if it agrees with whoever&#8217;s got Ken Martin&#8217;s ear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87055,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87054\/revisions\/87055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}