Bad voting machine! Bad! One really cannot make this up. Minnesota Dems have rescinded their endorsement of Omar Fateh, an avowed socialist, for Minneapolis mayor. The reasons why are myriad and laughter-inducing.
In a shocking move, the Minnesota DFL Party vacated the Minneapolis DFL’s endorsement of Sen. Omar Fateh for mayor of the city. The move comes after Mayor Jacob Frey asked the state party to nullify the endorsement citing problems at the city’s convention.
Last month, the Minneapolis DFL held its endorsing convention to decide which candidates would receive the party’s stamp of approval in the upcoming fall elections. While the party unit considered candidates for many different offices, the mayoral endorsement was considered the main event.
When the convention ended, Fateh claimed he was the winner of the mayoral endorsement after the second round of voting. However, Frey’s campaign subsequently asked the state DFL to nullify the endorsement due to problems at the convention.
And just what were those problems?? First, a mayoral candidate was purposefully left out of the process.
DFL Party Chairman Richard Carlbom said the committee reviewing the process found “substantial failures in the Minneapolis Convention’s voting process” at the July convention, including local party official’s acknowledgement that mayoral candidate DeWayne Davis was “errantly eliminated from contention.”
Fateh’s campaign is now arguing that Davis wouldn’t have made it out of the first round, so any votes he would’ve received wouldn’t have made a difference. Quite honestly, the only way they’d know that is if the system had already been gamed. Oh wait, there’s more.
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