When I was screened by Stonewal DFL, I was given the info that the Feminist
Caucus was there and would simultaneously screen.
Wizard Marks
McDonald, Lisa M wrote:
> I want to make a comment about the feminist caucus endorsement in
> Minneapolis. From talking to the organizers of the Stonewall Caucus I was
> informed that they inserted Feminist caucus questions in their screening and
> they never informed the candidates that they were screening for two
> endorsements. Also only one member of the Feminist caucus was in the
> audience at the screening. Somehow this seems rather duplicitous to me.
> Folks who are screening need to know what endorsements they are screening
> for.
>
> Lisa McDonald
> Tenth Ward Council Member
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michele St. Martin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:49 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Mpls] Eva & the DFL
> >
> > Dennis Hill makes a good point when he says "What Eva and so
> > many other folks have a hard time accepting is that a group of
> > individuals can join together and form a political party and
> > perate under any rules they want to agree to." As Eva well knows,
> > in order for any chartered DFL Party organization to use the
> > name "DFL" in their name, they must not work against the Party's
> > endorsed candidates.
> >
> > I'm a former Board member of the DFL Feminist Caucus and
> > as I recall, we always asked the "endorsement question" too. I
> > think they still do. Chartered party organizations like the Feminist
> > Caucus and Stonewall DFL don't purport to represent all
> > feminists or all glbt & glbt friends: their constituency is the members
> > of these groups that identify as DFLers. Did the Feminist Caucus
> > endorse anti-choice DFLers? Nope. Sometimes we took a pass,
> > when the Party endorsed candidates whose positions we disagreed
> > with on important issues differed from ours. We worked like hell to
> > get our candidates endorsed, and if they were not, we took a
> > second look at the candidate the Party backed. Sometimes that
> > candidate's views were acceptable enough to us that we could
> > then endorse them. Other times we took a pass and worked on
> > other races. The same is true of Stonewall (of which I'm a member,
> > albeit not an active one). That's the nice thing about electoral
> > politics -- there's always another race to work on.
> >
> > Eva Young has repeatedly referred to "being thrown out of the
> > DFL." I'd like to set the record straight.
> >
> > At the time Arne Carlson was running for Governor, I chaired
> > the 60th District DFL Central Committee (now the 61st District).
> > Eva was a Director of the organization.
> >
> > Several members of our Central Committee witnessed Eva and
> > her friend Vicki Oace campaigning for Arne Carlson literature.
> > They were understandably taken aback, and requested that I ask
> > for her resignation from her position as a party officer. This was
> > clearly a no-brainer: party officers just don't campaign for the
> > election of candidates of other political parties. (As an aside: this
> > is the same Vicki Oace whom Eva quotes as not thinking that
> > Stonewall should ask candidates if they'll abide by the party's
> > endorsement. Obviously Ms. Oace, with her track record of
> > supporting Republicans, is not a credible source on the matter of
> > how DFL-chartered organizations should run themselves.)
> >
> > In terms of Eva's current affiliation with the Republicans: it seems
> > to me that there are so many problems in the Republican Party in
> > Minneapolis (IS there a Republican Party in Minneapolis?) that
> > trying to build any type of organization would keep even someone
> > with Eva's incredible energy and vast talents busy. I mean that
> > sincerely, having worked on several campaigns with Eva in the
> > past. Eva, if you are dissatisfied with your venture into Republic-
> > anism, come on back to a party that actually values the contribu-
> > tions of ALL people, including glbt ones. But it's a lot harder to
> > work on building a party, be it the nearly-nonexistent Minneapolis
> > Republican Party or the thriving Minneapolis DFL, than it is to
> > stand outside and throw stones at it.
> >
> > I'm glad that there's so much discussion of Stonewall's practices:
> > it shows that this crucial organization is thriving!
> >
> > Michele St. Martin
> > Bryant Neighborhood, 61B
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