First, these comments seem to talk about Stonewall DFL like a single person. It isn't, it's a bunch of people who vote their ballots. I can count ballots, but neither I nor anyone else can tell you what was in the mind of the dozens of members when they cast their ballots. Nor is likely to be the same for all of them.
Barb Johnson in 4th Ward did request to be endorsed, and answered the screening questions. (I believe her answers, and those from other candidates, will be posted on our website, as soon as our volunteer webmaster finds time to do that.) And this is certainly not the first time she has requested & received Stonewall DFL endorsement.
All the discussion I heard on abiding by DFL endorsement was about upcoming endorsements, not worrying about the past. Don Samuels said he intends to abide by the DFL endorsement in Ward 5;
he was recommended for endorsement. RT Rybak said he intends to run in the Primary with or without DFL endorsement; Peter McLaughlin said he would abide by the DFL endorsement. The membership recommended McLaughlin for endorsement.
Certainly nobody at this meeting put RT Rybak in the same class as Michelle Bachman, or suggested vengeance toward him (just Dyna on this list). At the meeting he was well received and applauded. And RT Rybak did not "defy the DFL endorsement"; if you remember, there was no DFL endorsement for Mayor in 2001.
I don't understand the confusion over the dates -- the website clearly says the meeting on the 19th will vote on ST. PAUL Mayoral endorsement. And the schedule was also explaineded in an email to Stonewall members.
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Dyna, I don't see why you refer to the Stonewall DFL Annual meeting last year as a "coup". There weren't any armed revolutionaries or military juntas running around that I remember -- just another noisy, lengthy, and sometimes boring DFL meeting. The voting was by secret paper ballot, as usual. You just got less votes than other candidates -- that's not what I'd call throwing you out. And how is it a "coup" when the board was largely unchanged? -- 2/3rds of the elected directors were reelected from the year before.
And the Stonewall DFL board is now 44% women; that's more closely gender balanced that I recall for several years.
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish Ericsson
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