Minnesota DFL Revokes Omar Fateh’s Endorsement for Minneapolis Mayor
The state party “found substantial failures in the Minneapolis Convention’s voting process on July 19th, including an acknowledgement that a mayoral candidate was errantly eliminated from contention.”
Oh my goodness. It sounds like the Minnesota DFL (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) Party might revoke its endorsement of socialist Omar Fateh for Minneapolis mayor.
The DFL is affiliated with the national Democratic Party.
Fateh is running as a Democratic Socialist.
On Thursday, Minnesota DFL chair Richard Carlbom said, “After a thoughtful and transparent review of the challenges, the Constitution, Bylaws & Rules Committee found substantial failures in the Minneapolis Convention’s voting process on July 19th, including an acknowledgement that a mayoral candidate was errantly eliminated from contention. As a result, the Constitution, Bylaws & Rules Committee has vacated the mayoral endorsement.”
Carlbom added, “Now it’s time to turn our focus to unity and our common goal: electing DFL leaders focused on making life more affordable for Minnesotans and holding Republicans accountable for the chaos and confusion they’ve unleashed on Minnesotans.”
The controversy started when the DFL admitted it messed up bigly at the July convention by not counting “all valid delegate voters.”
According to The Star Tribune, Fateh won the party’s “support in the convention’s final minutes when a raise-your-hands style of vote was called after it appeared many of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s supporters had left the convention floor.”
Frey immediately challenged the endorsement:
The Frey campaign said there were an “extraordinarily high number of missing or uncounted votes produced by the highly flawed and untested electronic voting system.”
“Only 578 votes were recorded in the mayoral ballot conducted using the electronic balloting system, despite the fact that over 1,000 delegates and alternates were checked in at the time of the first ballot,” the campaign said in the release.
The Frey campaign alleges there’s “no plausible reason” why over 20% of the total delegates and alternates would skip voting.
Minneapolis DFL is ticked off, saying that current Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey “couldn’t prove the endorsement result would’ve been any different.” It wants the state party to stay out of it.
Well, convention organizers admitted that candidate DeWayne Davis “would not have been dropped from consideration on the second ballot.” Davis not being dropped could have helped Frey block Fateh’s endorsement.
Fateh needs the endorsement:
Losing the endorsement means Fateh will no longer be identified as the DFL-backed candidate in the race and he won’t have access to party lists of voters and other resources.
State Sen. Jennifer McEwen, DFL-Duluth, said she thinks the party’s decision to revoke the endorsement from Fateh will hurt the party more than it will hurt him. She endorsed Fateh’s campaign for mayor.
“It really is a kind of betrayal,” said McEwen. “I worry about people just leaving the party, or I worry about a fissure within the party.”
I guess having the DFL endorsement is huge in Minnesota due to “the money and resources the endorsement provides.”
It wouldn’t shock me if Minneapolis DFL appeals the decision.
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so voting irregularities aka as cheating
oh ok
Oh no…
This will not do.
This is Islamophobia straight up.
(Am I doing this correctly?)
This inbred creature needs to be hung around the DFL like a millstone.
Too late. They are willing to endorse him. He should never have been endorsed because he is an anti-western anti-US antisemite marxist dipshit.
The DFL has no shame and no morals.
What? He’s not a big enough communist?
They are only doing this because he’s black.
/must I?
The DFL is flipping out n/c focus groups probably don’t like the policy ideas of a commie who looks like the ‘I’m the Captain now’ dude.
You gotta love the DFL: when they’re not stealing elections from Republicans, they’re stealing elections from each other.
Yahbut…
Yevah notice when an internal election goes the wrong way for Democrats (Omar Fateh, David Hogg) it suddenly becomes a flawed election — even when everyone involved in running the election was a Democrat.. Man, it’s like Democrats can’t set up and run an election properly to save their lives.
But when an election run by Democrats produces the right results for them despite tons of obvious irregularities, suddenly it’s the “most secure and verifiable election in human history.”
Yuhsigh noticed.
Also Hillary v. Bernie they just didn’t wait to fix it. They fixed it before it could become a problem.
The way this guy suddenly got the endorsement at the convention was pretty sketchy to say the least. The Somali Grifters planned the entire thing and gamed the system to make it happen.
Which Democrats should have expected, as it is the way they hold EVERY election..
They did expect this type of thing but the DFL is so woke no one dared question the Somali Muslims there. It’s the same mindset that allowed the Feeding Our Future grift to happen
I am still fascinated that Americans would vote to allow a foreigner of any kind to hold a government office at any level.
I’m going to say this as a black American. Some discrimination is okay.
I attended high school with Israelis, Hungarians, and Czechs I’d GLADLY elect over MANY “real” Americans.
Don’t care who you went to school with. We Americans need to stop putting foreigners in charge of our country. And whatever foreigners you do know aren’t Muslim Communists.
Black Hawk Down?
????
So you wouldn’t vote for Winsome Sears?
I wouldn’t endorse a blanket statement like that.
Now do Mandami.
Fateh’s people will take to the streets and riot.
Target practice.
And boy do they need it, based on that one cop.
Oh, wait, you don’t mean them….
The guy looks like a cannibal. Seriously.
I would be unsurprised to learn his first wife and several neighbors disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
It’s the cats you’ve got to watch.
He looks far more like a confidence man. A token hire working at a less-than-honest (that is, most) automobile dealership.
“It really is a kind of betrayal,” said McEwen. “I worry about people just leaving the party, or I worry about a fissure within the party.”
You mean all the Somali Grifters will start their own party to push Sharia Law and endless handouts? Probably
They already have one. It’s eating yours.
Mine or do you mean the DFL and Democrats because neither are my party
Pop the corn, let the DFL civil war begin!
The Minnesota DFL party was created by a merger that locked out the burgeoning communists in the 1940’s. Now, it’s come full circle with the takeover by contemporary Communists.