[Mpls] Re: Should Minneapolis DFL Delay Endorsements?

[David Brauer]

Tamir Nolley wrote:

> ....and when talking about the council races we only focus on the DFL.  We
sort of don't talk
> about how the 5th and 6th ward incumbants are Green (I think Natalie
Johnson-Lee is one
> of the best council members this city has ever seen and will probably be
re-elected, hence
> my venting in the above paragraph) and that there will be more than one
political party
> running candidates, and more than one political party represented on the
city council.

I think there's an objective reason for this right now. The DFL's
endorsement process begins in three weeks (March 1 city caucuses). I even
had a candidate door-knock us this weekend!

If the Greens had an endorsement contest as early, there would be more talk
about them.

> I'm not one of those people who buy in to the mythology of the "DFL
Machine," but from
> what I've heard from many of those who went to the local DFL to support
Howard Dean or
> Dennis Kucinich and were systematically kept out of the process, the DFL
is NOT the place
> to inact political change.

I disagree. One reason I worked to enact city-level DFL caucuses four years
ago was to let more people in the process - and this political change passed
with the help of a lot of others.

Will it be material change? Will it work? Stay tuned; change is like that.

David Brauer
Kingfield