Omar Fateh wins the DFL endorsement for mayor of Minneapolis, best of luck to a once great city.......
Garage Logic
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The Minneapolis DFL Party convention ended Saturday night in a chaotic flurry of activity that saw state Sen. Omar Fateh claim the party's endorsement for mayor.
Why it matters: The young democratic socialist lawmaker's victory over two-term sitting mayor Mayor Jacob Frey is a major coup for left-wing critics hoping to unseat the well-funded incumbent.
- It's also the Minneapolis DFL's first endorsement in any contested mayor's race since at least 1997, per the Star Tribune.
What they're saying: "Today, we witnessed a rejection of politics as usual," Fateh said in his victory speech on the Target Center floor just before 10pm.
- "We know the status quo are going to do anything and everything to maintain power," he told his supporters. "They'll have all the money in the world … But they don't have you."
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| 0:59.3 | joined by Kyle Stokes. He has a great piece at Axios Twin Cities, and I'm finding myself finding |
| 1:05.4 | their website more and more these days. It's Axios.com. And he did a piece on Omar Fetay, winning the mayoral endorsement at a chaotic DFL convention. And Kyle has been kind enough to join us. Hello, Kyle. Hello there. How's it going? Good. So I read your piece. In fact, Mike is the one that recommended it to me this morning. And after I read it, you did a great job laying out a lot of things. And I just |
| 1:27.6 | want to ask you, how did this happen? And what exactly happened with this nomination? |
| 1:34.0 | Well, I mean, so there's the two kind of events that happened yesterday. One is this sort of |
| 1:40.0 | huge, I mean, it is a win for the left wing of Minneapolis's DFL party. The other thing is the |
| 1:47.3 | sort of procedural drama that took all day Saturday and saw, you know, kind of a thousand |
| 1:53.4 | unsuspecting, you know, like sad sacks like me stuck inside on a beautiful day during a political |
| 2:00.1 | convention. But, I mean, you know, so it was a long day. |
| 2:03.6 | The, you know, the long story short is that the voting system that the party hoped to use didn't work right. |
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