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  • 'This should never have happened': Wild brawls break out at Democratic endorsing convention in Minnesota as more than 40 supporters of rival candidates clash on stage

    05/14/2023 1:50:29 PM PDT · by grimalkin · 71 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 13 May, 2023 | Will Potter
    A wild brawl broke out at a Democratic endorsing convention in Minnesota on Saturday when dozens of supporters of rival candidates clashed on stage. The convention for the Minneapolis Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) Party's Ward 10 ended with at least one person hospitalized, another needing medical attention at the scene and no endorsement. 'This is embarrassing,' shouted convention chair Sam Doten as the ugly scenes escalated. 'We are shutting this down - this is no longer safe.' The confrontation erupted as backers of Minneapolis City Council member Aisha Chughtai took to the stage sending supporters of her challenger, Nasri Warsame,...
  • 'This should never have happened': Wild brawls break out at Democratic endorsing convention in Minnesota as more than 40 supporters of rival candidates clash on stage

    05/14/2023 7:03:52 AM PDT · by chief lee runamok · 89 replies
    dm ^ | 05/14/23 | Will Potter
    A wild brawl broke out at a Democratic endorsing convention in Minnesota on Saturday when dozens of supporters of rival candidates clashed on stage.The convention for the Minneapolis Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) Party's Ward 10 ended with at least one person hospitalized, another needing medical attention at the scene and no endorsement.
  • Children, not parents, are the ‘only authority’ on gender identity, DFL rep’s book says

    04/05/2023 6:08:56 PM PDT · by ConservativeInPA · 12 replies
    AlphaNews ^ | April 5, 2023 | Sheila Qualls
    "Queerfully and Wonderfully Made" encourages teens to "limit contact" with adults who do not affirm their choices. A sitting member of the Minnesota House of Representatives published a self-help book for Christian teens who are questioning their sexuality. Rep. Leigh Finke, DFL-St. Paul, a first-term legislator who is transgender and identifies as a woman, released a book in 2020 entitled, “Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens.” “Queerfully and Wonderfully Made” contains almost no references to prayer and encourages teens to “limit contact” with adults who do not affirm their choices, including parents. “Please, if your parents...
  • Minnesota Democrat lawmakers push ban on gas-powered lawn mowers, chainsaws to curb 'climate pollution'

    02/18/2023 6:27:53 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 109 replies
    FOX Business ^ | February 18, 2023 | By Emily Robertson
    Two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers are proposing a pair of bills that would significantly impact the state's backyards and neighborhood ice rinks in an effort to combat climate change. State Reps. Jerry Newton and Heather Edelson, members of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, introduced legislation on Monday that would block the sale of common landscaping appliances like lawn mowers and chainsaws as well ice resurfacing machines such as Zambonis, requiring that only electric battery versions be sold in the state starting Jan. 1, 2025. The ban on lawn and garden equipment would include any machine that uses "a spark ignition engine rated...
  • Pro-shutdown teachers union gives $1.9 million to Minnesota Democrats

    10/08/2022 9:39:35 AM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 13 replies
    Alpha News ^ | 10/08/22 | Anthony Gockowski
    Minnesota’s teachers union, one of Gov. Tim Walz’s top political allies, has donated nearly $2 million to state Democrats so far this election cycle. According to new campaign finance reports, Education Minnesota’s political action committee gifted $513,000 each to the House and Senate DFL caucuses, and another $900,000 to the DFL State Central Committee, for a total of $1.9 million. All of the donations were made in August and September. Emails previously obtained by Alpha News show the union was given inside access to the Walz administration throughout the pandemic and its president, Denise Specht, had a close working relationship...
  • DFL candidate defends rioting, supports ‘abolishing’ police

    10/05/2022 12:11:29 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 23 replies
    Alpha News ^ | 10/05/22 | Anthony Gockowski
    A DFL candidate who has the support of some of the party’s top officials wants to abolish the police and defended rioting during a June speech. Leigh Finke won the DFL nomination for House District 66A in August and will likely win November’s election in the solidly-blue district. Finke, who is transgender, previously worked for the ACLU, authored a guide for “LGBTQ+ Christian teens,” served on the Stonewall DFL board, and produced a documentary called “White Savior,” which explores “racism in the American church.” Finke repeatedly called for abolishing the police throughout 2021, according to Facebook screenshots provided to Alpha...
  • Third command sergeant major corroborates story of Walz dodging deployment (MN)

    09/26/2022 11:19:11 AM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 22 replies
    AlphaNews ^ | 9/26/22 | Liz Collin
    A third retired command sergeant major is speaking out against Gov. Tim Walz, saying he “let his soldiers down” by avoiding a deployment to Iraq in 2005 before running for Congress. Doug Julin worked his way up to division command sergeant major (CSM) before he retired from the Minnesota National Guard in 2012 after serving 35 years. “This was a backdoor deal,” Julin said of Walz not going on the mission. Julin is the third retired CSM to speak with Alpha News this month about a story that all three say deserves more attention. Republican gubernatorial candidate Dr. Scott Jensen...
  • Several DFL donors charged in free-food fraud (MN)

    09/23/2022 9:25:32 AM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 19 replies
    AlphaNews ^ | 9/23/222 | Anthony Gockowski
    At least nine of the 48 people accused of defrauding the government of $250 million meant to feed hungry children have donated to Democratic officeholders in Minnesota. The number is likely higher and Alpha News is working to confirm the identities of additional defendants. Campaign finance records show 42-year-old Liban Yasin Alishire donated $2,500 in May of this year to the reelection campaign of Attorney General Keith Ellison. Alishire listed Hoodo Properties as his employer, which was a shell company he created to purchase luxury items and real estate with money he stole from the government, according to an indictment....
  • One Minnesota: Walz claims Republicans ‘naturally inclined’ to ‘demonize’ others

    09/03/2022 10:33:22 AM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 38 replies
    Alpha News ^ | 9/3/22 | Anthony Gockowski
    Gov. Tim Walz, running for reelection on a promise of “One Minnesota,” once described Republicans as naturally inclined to “demonize” others before mockingly accusing them of using “The Handmaid’s Tale” as an “operator’s manual.” “The Handmaid’s Tale” is a book by Margaret Atwood, popularized by a hit television adaptation, wherein women are essentially enslaved, raped, and forced to bear children for a class of male rulers called “commanders.” This is the reality Republicans want, according to Walz, who is attempting to position himself as the “bipartisan” candidate in the race for governor. But he didn’t stop there. “If you don’t...
  • When radical leftists seized the DFL in the 1940s, the great Minnesota liberal, Hubert Humphrey, chased them out

    07/16/2022 11:02:57 AM PDT · by jdege · 32 replies
    The American Experiment ^ | August 20, 2020 | John Phelan
    ...The Farmer-Labor Party carried more than a tinge of communism, an ideology which repelled Humphrey. This presented few problems during wartime when the U.S. was allied with the Soviet Union, but when the war ended and the Cold War began the communists threw their weight behind Moscow. Despite the Midwest’s long tradition of non-interventionism, Humphrey believed that the failure to confront Hitler earlier had encouraged eventual war and he was deeply committed to an anti-communist foreign policy, which the communist elements of the DFL opposed. “We’re not going to let the political philosophy of the DFL be dictated from the...
  • Minnesota lawmaker proposes bill to require license for gun owners

    03/28/2022 1:33:14 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 79 replies
    KSTP.com ^ | 3/27//22 | Jay Kolls
    Sen. John Marty, (DFL) Roseville, told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS his proposed bill which would require gun owners to have a license would, in the long run, help save lives. Under Marty’s proposed bill, anyone purchasing a gun at a commercial business, gun shows or through individual sales, would have to acquire a license which would require gun safety education and training similar to what people have to do when they obtain a driver’s license. “It seems to me that it is no more of a burden on lawful gun owners than driver’s licenses are a lawful burden on drivers,” said...
  • Project Veritas Exposes Ilhan Omar Allies in Alleged Ballot Harvesting Operation in Minnesota

    09/27/2020 7:42:07 PM PDT · by BlackFemaleArmyColonel · 38 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 27 September 2020 | ALLUM BOKHARI
    Project Veritas has released the results of an investigation into alleged ballot harvesting by supporters of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, a key swing state in the 2020 presidential election. Video footage captured by Project Veritas shows an operative, Liban Mohamed, bragging about collecting hundreds of ballots. “Numbers do not lie. Numbers do not lie. … You can see my car is full. All these here are absentee ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these; my car is full,” Mohamed can be heard saying in the video. The video also includes testimony from a whistleblower, Omar Jamal, who...
  • Project Veritas uncovers ‘ballot harvesting fraud’ in Minnesota: Devine

    09/27/2020 9:02:35 PM PDT · by bitt · 55 replies
    nyPOST ^ | 8/27/2020 | MIRANDA DEVINE
    A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted by undercover news organization Project Veritas. One alleged ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis city council member Jamal Osman, is shown in a bombshell Snapchat video rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard. “Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman,” says Mohamed, aka KingLiban1, in the video. “I have 300 ballots in my car right now . . . “Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car...
  • Trump and Biden hit unlikely battleground state of Minnesota

    09/18/2020 10:07:42 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 33 replies
    Dissociated Press ^ | September 18, 2020 | Will Weißert and Kathleen Hennessey
    Minnesota has backed Democratic presidential candidates for nearly half a century and rarely receives much attention during the final stages of the race. This is when campaigns typically focus their resources on more traditional swing states like Florida or Pennsylvania. But Minnesota will feel like a genuine battleground on Friday as President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, campaign here to mark the beginning of early voting. They’re expected to avoid the state’s most populated areas near Minneapolis to focus on largely white rural and working-class voters, some of whom shifted to Republicans for the first time in...
  • Democratic State House candidate suggests Minnesota suburb be burned down: 'I didn't come here to be peaceful'

    08/16/2020 9:00:55 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 67 replies
    The Blaze ^ | August 16, 2020
    John Thompson, a Democrat campaigning for State House in Minnesota, launched into a fiery diatribe during a Black Lives Matter protest outside the home of Minneapolis Police Federation President Bob Kroll on Saturday. During the vitriolic tirade, Thompson hinted that the town of Hugo be burned down, which is where Kroll lives. The crowd outside Kroll's home were demanding his resignation, accusing him of "fostering a toxic culture within the Minneapolis Police Department," according to KSTP-TV. One of the most blunt and unreserved speakers during the hours-long protest was Thompson, who won the Democratic primary for the Minnesota House of Representatives...
  • Minnesota Gov. Walz asks Trump for disaster declaration after George Floyd riots trigger over $500M in damages

    07/02/2020 11:04:24 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 92 replies
    Fox News ^ | 07/02/2020 | Michael Ruiz
    Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has asked President Trump for a federal disaster declaration in his state due to “extensive fire damage” and other destruction in the unrest that followed George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day. “We need to come together to ensure Minnesotans who were victims of this destruction have access to critical infrastructure they need so they can go to the grocery store, pick up their medication, and live their lives,” Walz said in a statement Thursday. “Together, we will rebuild.” He also appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for financial assistance to...
  • Two GOP Candidates Assaulted in Minnesota

    10/17/2018 10:28:23 AM PDT · by mandaladon · 52 replies
    FREE BEACON ^ | 17 Oct 2018 | Bill McMorris
    The Minnesota Democratic Party has suspended a spokesman for calling for violence against Republicans even as two GOP candidates have been assaulted in suspected politically motivated attacks. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party has suspended communications staffer William Davis for one week without pay after making a Facebook post joking that Democrats would "bring [Republicans] to the guillotine" on Nov. 7, the day after the midterm elections. Minnesota Republican Party chairman Jennifer Carnahan said the suspension was not enough, calling for his immediate firing in the aftermath of separate attacks against Republican candidates. She said she has been subjected to numerous death threats...
  • Despite Allegations Against Ellison, DFL Attempts To Show Unity

    08/17/2018 12:40:48 AM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies
    CBS Local ^ | 8/16/18 | Pat Kessler
    MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — DFL leaders called a press conference Thursday to show harmony after a bruising primary election. But if this is Democratic unity, one wonders what DFL dissension looks like. At the news conference, DFL Party Chair Ken Martin was peppered with questions about embattled Attorney General candidate Keith Ellison. “What I would say is that our party takes any allegation of domestic abuse seriously,” he said. “It’s a fluid situation. It’s still developing.”
  • US: Woman who called Israel ‘apartheid’ wins local primaries

    08/14/2018 11:59:46 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 30 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 15/8/18
    Ilhan Omar, who once called Israel an “apartheid regime,” but who more recently came out against the boycott Israel movement, handily won the Democratic nomination in a Minneapolis-area congressional District. Omar, a Somali-born community activist and representative in the State House, is favored to win in November in the 5th District now held by Keith Ellison, who won the DFL primary for state attorney general. DFL is the state’s Democratic Party. There were primaries Tuesday in four states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Vermont. Omar’s tweets about Israel have earned her notoriety in the pro-Israel community. In 2012, she said...
  • Wellstone legacy ‘goes dormant’ after family ousted in Democratic feud

    05/13/2018 4:33:30 PM PDT · by jeannineinsd · 34 replies
    Politico ^ | 5/13/18 | David Siders
    In the Democratic Party’s reckoning following the election of Donald Trump, an unlikely feud has erupted inside an organization at the heart of the progressive movement. Earlier this year, the board of directors of Wellstone Action — an influential training group formed after Sen. Paul Wellstone’s death — dumbfounded Minnesota Democrats when it voted the late senator’s sons off the governing board. The ouster came after the sons, Mark and David Wellstone, raised concerns about overspending in areas of the organization’s budget — and after a dispute over the direction and priorities of the group. -snip - David Wellstone and...