Not a Good Day for Labor

It was not a good day for organized Labor at the city convention as many of their pre-convention endorsed candidates failed to secure DFL Party endorsement. Labor worked hard and strongly supported Sharon Sayles Belton (DFL) in the Mayor’s race and saw that two of...

Future Conventions and the Bent of this One

The delegates to the convention had other issues to address, which included endorsements for School Board, the Library Board, and the Park Board. They also voted to change the City Constitution and hold city based caucuses instead of using the previous years’...

Minneapolis Convention Highlights and Lowlights

The gloomy, cloudy sky was a foreshadowing of the events set to occur at the Minneapolis DFL City Convention as far as two-term incumbent Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton should view things now. The delegates at the convention declined to endorse a candidate for mayor on...

Minneapolis Convention Primer

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 5th is the Minneapolis City Convention. It will take place at Augsburg College and begins at 10:00 AM. The contest between two-term incumbent Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton (DFL), former Twin Cities Reader Publisher RT Rybak (DFL) and Minneapolis...