Without addressing the substance of Mr. Atherton's post, that Rep Kahn's offense
is sufficient grounds to vote her out of office, I did want to address his assertion
that the DFL should remove her endorsement and endorse a write-in against her from a
technical stand-point.
The party's by-laws state that if a candidate has committed an offense deemed
"malfeasance or non-feasance" that the local central committee may revoke the
endorsement by a two-thirds majority vote of the members eligible to vote, those being
the central committee members residing in 59B, in this case. There are approximately
twenty-three members of the district central committee who are eligible to vote on
that issue (with quite a number of alternates). While there have been a number of
spirited posts on this topic on our internal email list, to date no one has requested
that this be taken up at a district meeting.
As for his assertion that we should just endorse a write-in, I'm certain that
that could not be done. Local party committees can only make an endorsement if a
candidate is not endorsed by the local party convention or if the endorsed candidate
does not survive the primary. Since Rep Kahn was duly endorsed and survived the
primary, even if she were to have her endorsement revoked I do not believe it would be
in order for the party to make a subsequent endorsement.
I know this seems like a lot of legalese and mumbo-jumbo, but rules like this are
designed to prevent the will of the convention delegates from being overturned by a
small minority of party honchos.
Loki Anderson
Marshall Terrace
Associate Chair
SD 59 DFL
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin
Luther King Jr.
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