It was a rare triumph for the democratic socialist candidate seeking to unseat the mayor of Minneapolis. After a chaotic party convention held last month, State Sen. Omar Fateh clinched the endorsement of the local Democratic Party, becoming the first mayoral candidate in the city to get that support since 2009.
But the edge was short-lived. On Thursday, Democratic Party officials in Minnesota took the rare step of withdrawing the Minneapolis chapter’s endorsement, citing “substantial failures” during the convention, which was marred by technological and procedural irregularities. It’s a blow for progressives in the city who championed Fateh’s victory and characterized it as a win for the Democratic Party’s left flank nationwide.
A draft report released by the committee notes the challengers to Fateh’s endorsement did not have to prove alleged violations, or system breakdowns, would have led to a different outcome for the challenges to be examined by the state party.
It’s a real shame all these technical failures and procedural mistakes keep happening whenever a progressive wins in the party. I’m sure someone that givesomefucks will be around any minute to tell us all that the new DNC is all about undoing the wrongs of the past and that is why the top brass are such sticklers now.
To be fair, the state party isn’t the same thing as the national party. Heck, in Minnesota it doesn’t even have the same name: it’s officially the “Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party” because the Minnesota Democratic Party merged with the legitimately left-wing Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party back in the day.
'Course, that only means we should be even more disappointed in how they’re acting now.
Thats some Boeing merge with McDonell-Douglas shit going on. Let the rot in and it subsumes you inside out.
I wondered about that DFL part, and yeah misses the mark even more with that piece of history added.