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SD63 Update for March 31

In this Update:

People caucusing

Time to get your Spring Dinner tickets!

Order your tickets today! On Saturday, April 26, SD63 will get together at the Eagles Airie in Seward for a casual dinner with speaker Naomi Kritzer. Naomi is an award-winning fiction writer, and a noted local elections commentator through her blog.

Your financial support for SD63 goes towards electing candidates and spreading messages that reflect your values — from direct donations to DFLers in close races, to printed material for doorknocks, to producing caucuses, conventions, and forums.

But we can’t do it without you. Get your tickets now, and join us as we move Minnesota forward!


One week to Caucus Night

People caucusing Caucus Night is one week away! Join your neighbors and voice your preferences for our city’s mayor, your ward’s council member, and our representatives on the Park Board and Board of Estimate and Taxation.

Do you have a plan to caucus? Do you know where you will caucus? Find out your ward on the Secretary of State’s site, and find your caucus location on the Minneapolis DFL’s site. And you can save time on caucus night by pre-registering for your caucus online — for both in-person and non-attendees.

Seven different wards overlap SD63:

Legislative newsletters

Our HD63B Representative Emma Greenman posted videos via Instagram and Facebook this week of her appearances at an AFGE Rally, the House/Senate DFL press conference introducing the “Protect Medicaid, Not Millionaires” Act, and more.

Our HD63A Representative Samantha Sencer-Mura sent a Legislative Update last week with updates about road safety, local impact of the federal budget chaos, and more: read it all here.

One highlight this week will be a Childcare Roundtable with Samantha and other legislators from the Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee: on Tuesday, April 1, at Christ Church Lutheran (3244 34th Avenue South), more info and sign up here.

Many of our other elected and appointed officials as well as government service branches also have their own official newsletters, and we include a list below.

Around town

Find and support 2025 DFL candidates!

For Minneapolis mayor: 2025 Minneapolis mayor candidates seeking DFL endorsement

For Minneapolis Council District 2:

Ward 2 incumbent Robin Wonsley has not sought DFL endorsement in the past.

For Minneapolis Council District 6:

For Minneapolis Council District 8:

Ward 8 incumbent Council Member Andrea Jenkins is not seeking re-election.

For Minneapolis Council District 9:

For Minneapolis Council District 11:

For Minneapolis Council District 12:

For Minneapolis Council District 13:

We will add information about Park Board and Board of Estimate and Taxation races closer to caucuses.

Events

Ongoing

Monday, March 31

Tuesday, April 1

Wednesday, April 2

Thursday, April 3

Friday, April 4

Saturday, April 5

Sunday, April 6

Monday, April 7

Tuesday, April 8

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Other newsletters

Many of our elected and appointed officials have their own official newsletters, discussing local needs and opportunities. They are great starting points for getting more involved in our community! You can subscribe for new updates, and in many cases find back issues, at these sites:

Our meetings

Hosmer Library The next SD63 Central Committee meeting will be on April 2, 2025, at 6:30pm. Our meetings are hybrid: the upcoming in-person session will be at Hosmer Library, 347 East 36th Street, and the online session will be via Zoom. All SD63 Central Committee meetings are open to the public.

Support SD63

Donations to SD63 are used to run caucuses and conventions, maintain web and email servers, support campaigns, and hold issue forums and other community events. We have no paid employees.

Mission statement and editorial policies

The mission of the SD63 Update is

  1. To promote the DFL and the DFL’s values, activities, endorsed candidates, and platform,
  2. To develop community support, volunteers and material support for the above, and
  3. To raise public awareness and involvement in civic and other community processes as a means to implement DFL values and platform items,

especially as originating from and applying to Minnesota Senate District 63, and especially with the target audience of SD63 DFL participants and supporters. The editors and contributors of the Update shall execute this mission in a manner consistent with DFL policies and codes of conduct.

Inclusion of official public material

The Update may include content from or references to newsletters and announcements from community groups and elected officials when, at the sole good-faith discretion of the Update editor, these materials support the mission of the Update. Such official, non-campaign materials may be excerpted or referenced even when originating from an elected official who was not endorsed as a candidate by the DFL. Excerpts of and references to such material shall not be understood to be an endorsement, material support or other support of any kind of any candidacy by DFL SD63.

Contested endorsements

Between Election Day of one year and the convention of the relevant DFL Endorsing Unit of the following year, the Update editor may choose either:

  1. To provide coverage of campaign events, volunteer opportunities, and material support opportunities of all candidates who have informed the Update editor of their intention to seek DFL endorsement for a particular endorsement contest, or
  2. To cover no candidates for that endorsement contest.

If a DFL Endorsing Unit (and the SD63 DFL, if different than the Endorsing Unit) declines to endorse any candidate in some endorsement contest, then this policy shall also apply to that contest between the Endorsing Unit’s convention and the subsequent primary election or ranked-choice general election.

Some notes on the Contested Endorsement policy:

  1. Excerpts from and references to the announcements of public officials as described in the Policy on Inclusion of Official Public Material shall be seen as separate from campaign activity for the purposes of this policy.
  2. Note that the editor may opt to cover some endorsement contests but not others, as deemed feasible and appropriate by the editor. The editor’s two options in this Contested Endorsement policy are intended to provide fairness to the candidates for endorsement in any given endorsement contest. The statement of two options for each contest shall not be interpreted to compel or forbid coverage of candidates in any particular contest.
  3. The description of informing the Update editor of candidacy for endorsement described in Option 1 of this Contested Endorsement policy shall be satisfied by a direct communication to the Update editor, or by inclusion in an announcement recorded in the minutes of a meeting of the SD63 Central Committee. The Update editor may also take note of announcements in public forums, or of campaign activity oriented to potential caucus-goers or convention delegates, to serve as such a declaration. However this policy shall not be interpreted to expect the Update editor to discover endorsement candidate intentions outside of the two forms of declaration specified in this note.

No part of the Contested Endorsement policy is intended to contradict the prohibition of supporting candidates opposing a DFL-endorsed candidate, nor shall it compel any SD63 editor or contributor to do so.

Promulgation of this statement and policies

From their approval, the full text of this statement and these policies shall be included below the web publication of all Update issues. Moreover, a reference and link to that web publication shall be included in all email or physical transmissions of the Update. These publications of this statement and policies shall be taken as sufficient disclaimer that the contents of the Update represent a good-faith effort to adhere to all DFL policies and codes of conduct, including but not limited to the avoidance of endorsement of non-DFL-endorsed candidates in the context of an election including one or more DFL-endorsed candidates.

Questions and comments

Questions, comments and concerns regarding this policy or any content in the SD63 Update should be directed initially to its editor via email to newsletter AT sd63dfl DOT org. Further inquiries may be directed to the SD63 DFL Chair, or to DFL Party Affairs.