Let's look at the potential scenario: While the Republicans have burned their bridges with Minneapolis voters, there are a probably a handful of Green, Independence, and even DFL candidates who would run against the stadium tax and have enough favorable name recognition to be viable candidates. In the primary much of R.T.'s progressive DFL supporters could vote for a traditionally popular crossover Green like Annie Young, pushing R.T. out and pitting Annie against Peter in the general election. Against the weaker DFL candidate Annie would have a fighting chance of being Minneapolis' second woman mayor...
As a DFLer I'm nervous- when candidates so abandon the party's principles on a gut level issue like corporate welfare for billionaires even "safe" races can be lost.
still uncommitted in Hawthorne (haven't been called by either campaign in weeks, by strangely got an invite to a party for Peter's campaign volunteers),
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