DFL rah rah rah!
not quite. David Brauer's analysis is quite flawed.
The reasons that most of the votes went to DFL candidates is because most
candidates of various liberal and progressive variations identified as DFL.
Whereas there were more than one candidates labelling themselves as DFL in
the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 11th Wards. Sometimes several candidates.
There was never more than one candidate in any ward identifying as Green.
The tests of Minneapolis voters' willingness to elect Green candidates are
still to come.
Jordan Kushner
Ward 8
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Mpls list'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:54 PM
Subject: RE: [Mpls] Endorsements
> Michael writes:
> >
> > The Minneapolis DFL machine has been the total
> > domination of the council, supported by neighborhood
> > "activists," funded by the NRP, which in turn was supported
> > by a DFL legislature.
>
> > A couple of years ago I told Dore Mead that the election
> > of Venture signaled the displease of the electorate with
> > the DFL. At the time she disagreed. I don't think that
> > anyone (including me) could have predicted the success
> > of the Green Party in the primary. I hope with all my
> > heart that these changes will also be reflected in the
> > new council. This city has been run under a one party
> > system for far too long. Power corrupts, absolute
> > power...
>
> The Greens did a fine job and deserve all the kudos they get. There was
> a yawning gap for a another party and they have filled it stirringly.
> But Michael sets a ridiculous standard for judging electorate
> displeasure: no DFLer believes the party captures 100 percent of the
> electorate, or should it. I would not call this election a repudiation
> of the DFL, but one power bloc within it.
>
> Look closely at the results. Hooray for Cam Gordon, but he got 32
> percent and a DFLer (Paul Zerby) beat him and the two DFLers (Zerby &
> Campbell) received 61 percent of the vote. In the 6th, Dean Zimmerman
> won with 26 percent, but a gaggle of DFLers received 68 percent of the
> vote. In the 8th, the independent with a strong prior history of
> vote-getting (former school board member Sandra Miller) finished third;
> despite the Herron scandal, DFLers Vickie Brock and Robert Lilligren
> received 69 percent.
>
> Displeased with the DFL? I don't think so. Ventura may have signaled
> something on the state level, but in Minneapolis, his "nearly-endorsed"
> candidate (Lisa McDonald) received a disappointing 18 percent and
> finished out of the money.
>
> It's possible in the next election, more candidates will feel "safe" to
> embrace the Green label, rather than playing it safe with the DFL.
>
> But the story last night (side-by-side with the more-noticed Green
> emergence) is a DFL one: the most pro-neighborhood, more-pro-NRP DFLers
> cleaned up their own party - Zerby over Campbell, RT over SSB, etc. Not
> only was it not a repudiation of the DFL, it wasn't a repudiation of
> NRP.
>
> The emergence of a strong Green party is terrific on many levels -- but
> they are taking the place of a vacuum, at least based on last night's
> results. The DFL is still looking, very, very good - maybe better,
> depending on your view of intra-party results last night.
>
> David Brauer
> King Field - Ward 10
>
>
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