[Mpls] Doug Grow on the "Death of the Old Guard"

[Loki Anderson]

"Cooney, Dale" <dcooney at mpr.org> wrote:

Its that very same insular party apparatus that allows the Walt Dzeidzics
and Bob Fines of the world to secure relatively pain-free DFL endorsements.


> It seems we have to correct this error almost every couple weeks. Bob Fine has never been a DFL endorsed candidate for the Park Board. In 1997, when he was elected an at-large commissioner, the DFL endorsed Rochelle Berry-Graves and George Puzak. There was no endorsement on the third seat as the convention adjourned with Annie Young still a few votes short. In 2001, the DFL endorsed Tracy Nordstrom for the District 6 seat. And this year there was no endorsement given.

 

> And Walt Dziedzic's endorsement was anything but pain-free. Despite being nominated by Julie Mattson Ostrow and despite having a significant number of our younger voters leave after RT Rybak's convention walk-out, Commissioner Dziedzic still needed three ballots to overcome the last minute candidacy of Peter Vevang.


Loki Anderson

Downtown

hoping more facts get entered into this thread




		
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