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.
Nothing brings out the true colors of the Democrats than an authentic Progressive.
Democrats working against the interests of the people?? Say it aint so!
Democrats don’t want to win, they would rather have more Republicans than anyone against corporate donor interests.
democrats are professional losers
Their wallets don’t lose tho. Fucking Nancy Pelosi insider trading forever
Schmuck Schumer, too.
that’s the professional part. they’re mercenaries who go out there and do evil via losing on purpose
Let’s see, how can this be solved?
- Go to the national DNC and demand they put him back.
- Go to the Minnesota voters (they voted for him) and get them to pull their money out of the DNC locally.
- Scream this at NY, they’ll fight for you too.
This is a broken chapter and should be treated as such.
Minnesota voters didn’t vote for him.
Minneapolis party delegates voted. But we’ll never know how many voted for him, because 20% of the votes were left uncounted.
If this were any other election, there would be a unified call for a redo.
Let’s have a unified call for a redo.
Stop running as a Democrat. You can be mayor as a Democratic socialist and independent. Just look at Bernie Sanders.
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.
STOP THE COUNT! THE VOTE IS RIGGED! - Democrats whenever a progressive is about to win.
Republicans: “Fucking starve for all I care.”
Dem Soc: “Let’s all work to make sure everyone eats.”
Dems: “Here are some cake recipes.”My hot take is that democratic socialism needs a rebrand.
Hell, the GOP rebranded fascism and autocracy as “MAGA.”
Not sure about that. DSA is taking off and becoming a household name. Zohran Mamdani broke the stigma on socialism. Affordable housing sounds so attractive even if you call it socialism people will not care anymore.
That tracks unfortunately
Are we ready to accept the truth about US elections or nah?
