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David Strom 2:00 PM | August 24, 2025
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That thing that never happened--voter fraud--happened again in Minneapolis. 

The Democratic Party withdrew its endorsement of Omar Fateh, a Somali refugee running for Mayor of Minneapolis. The reason? Systemic voter fraud in the election process. 

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Nobody who pays attention to politics in Minnesota is surprised that fraud was involved in his endorsement, because there is always fraud involved in Minneapolis elections. The city is horribly corrupt and has been for decades; what is different now is that the establishment Democrats are losing out to the Somalis, whom they welcomed into their party. 

That wasn't part of the deal the Democrats assumed they would make. The Somalis were supposed to be a client group--Democrats get their votes, and the Somalis get significant chunks of money from the government. It was supposed to be a straightforward quid pro quo. But the Somalis figured out that they could take everything over by using the loose rules the Democrats put in place to enable fraud. 

Voter ID? That's racist! 

The result is that a group of unidentified Somalis appears, many or even most of whom do not speak English or live in the city, and they get to choose the candidate. That's how Ilhan Omar got into power, and that's why there are, in lily white Minnesota, there are at least 10 Somali elected officials in the state. They understood the game and played it well. 

What had been a polarizing election for Minneapolis mayor has exploded into a full-blown political crisis for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and a group of prominent Minneapolis Democrats Thursday released a statement condemning the state party for revoking the DFL convention endorsement of mayoral candidate Sen. Omar Fateh, who would be the city’s first Somali-American mayor if elected in November.

“A small group of DFL board members, a majority living outside Minneapolis, met privately to overturn the will of Minneapolis delegates who volunteered, organized, and participated in a months-long DFL process. It is inexcusable to overturn the results weeks after the convention because board members did not like the outcome,” wrote the group, which also comprised state Sens. Zaynab Mohamed and Doron Clark, state Reps. Aisha Gomez, Fue Lee, Mohamud Noor, Sydney Jordan and Esther Agbaje and several members of the City Council and Hennepin County Board.

The statement notes a majority of the DFL committee that revoked the endorsement Thursday don’t live in Minneapolis, while also drawing an ideological contrast between “progressive democrats who are challenging the status quo and moderate democrats.”  It also alleges “blatant corruption” via “the influence of big money in our politics.”

Though his name goes unmentioned, the statement is a pointed rebuke of state DFL Chair Richard Carlbom, who was hand-picked by Gov. Tim Walz to succeed current DNC Chair Ken Martin.

The ruling and report, released on Thursday from the state party following a formal complaint by the Frey campaign, paints a portrait of a convention so dysfunctional that the Minneapolis DFL is on “probation” for two years. Carlbom reached for comity with an anodyne statement announcing the decision, telling Democrats to move on: “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.”

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Ironically, this isn't the first time Fateh has used fraud to get ahead. His brother-in-law was convicted of voter fraud because he stole ballots, filled them out, and delivered them. Only that time, the Senate let Fateh off the hook. 

So why are the Democrats coming down hard on Fateh this time?

Simple: Minneapolis is an economic powerhouse, but COVID and the Floyd riots did enormous damage from which the city has not recovered. The last thing it needs is a corrupt socialist to drag it even further down. Minnesota is losing citizens, and its population would be dropping faster except for the fact that the state is a magnet for refugees. 

In other words, the people who pay the bills are leaving, and the people who suck down enormous quantities of tax dollars are increasing. Minnesota businesses are worried, and when they are worried, the Democrats hear about it. Omar Fateh was a step too far.

Politics and corruption go together like peas and carrots, but the Democrats have followed a corollary of Jean-Baptiste Colbert's maxim about taxes: the art of taxation is to "pluck the goose so as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing." In other words, allow no more corruption than the city or state can absorb without permanent damage. 

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The Somalis, coming from a failed state, don't see it that way. Their motto is "grab it while you can." That's why the largest COVID fraud in the country happened here--the Somalis figured out how to steal a quarter billion dollars in about a year--a staggering accomplishment, if you think about it. And Fateh was in the middle of that, too. 

The Democrats are in a bind. They created the system that the Somalis are using to rip everybody off, and they have helped cover up the massive corruption that is ruining their party. Germans and Scandinavians are not as skilled at the game as the Somalis, and the only way to prevent the slide into disaster is to clean up the system. But that would mean admitting that the system is and always has been corrupt. 

It's poisonous for the Democrats, and the result may be the Detroitification of Minneapolis. 








































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