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SD63 Update for September 17

In this Update:

Emma’s FallFest is this Thursday night!

Fall Fest is here! Join the other friends, neighbors, and supporters who make the DFL’s work in South Minneapolis possible. Let’s celebrate our successes so far, and look forward to the next two months of work to keep Minnesota DFL Blue!

You’ll enjoy live music, good food, warm (and cold!) drinks, and plenty of s’mores — all in support of the people-powered politics, defending our democracy, and winning DFL majorities this fall. That’s Emma’s Sixth Annual Fall Fest, tonight (Thursday the 17th) from 6–9pm. RSVP to Barrett today for more info, and make your contribution either now or at the fest.

RSVP for Fall Fest now

Have you accepted The Challenge?

Last week we wrote to you about the Voter Engagement Champion Challenge.

Have you signed up for the challenge?

This is the time in the campaign to knock on doors, make phone calls, and send texts. We need all of our neighbors at the polls, and we need you to let know this! Direct personal contact, connecting person-to-person over our shared values, is what gets people to the polls. We all need to make the difference in getting our whole community engaged and voting — we all need to accept this challenge!

Get more information and sign up here

Steve’s signs across the neighborhood

Do you have a good yard for yard signs? Steve Simon delivered a big stack of signs to the DFL last week, and we have several dozen to spread across high-visibility spots in our district.

We can’t rely only on yard signs, but the reminder of his good governance over the last decade will help us win another term for Steve’s trustworthy leadership. Request a sign here, and we’ll be in touch to arrange a pick-up time and place.

Volunteer to host a Steve Simon yard sign here

Get involved

Ongoing

Thursday, September 17

  • Latinx Heritage Month Celebration  Featuring cultural performances by Away Runakuna, Colombia Live MN, Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue and Angelica Bello. The performances will be followed by a breakfast and the reading of an honorary resolution recognizing and celebrating the rich contributions of our Latinx communities. 8am, City Hall Rotunda (350 South Fifth Street)
  • Community Commission on Police Oversight  This meeting is an opportunity for community members to give input on Minneapolis Police Department policies, rules, practices, and the Police Chief appointment. 6pm, 250 South 4th Street #350

Friday, September 18

Saturday, September 19

Sunday, September 20


Monday, September 21

Meet Becca Dryden  Venn Brewing 6-8pm (3550 East 46th Street). Earlier this week, Minneapolis Public Schools presented their Transformation Plan in which every option includes significant school closures. Join your DFL-endorsed candidate for School Board District 5 for a conversation about how this plan will impact District 5. How do we equip our schools to meet our kids’ needs? How do we attract and retain the best teachers? And how do we pay for it all? Bring your questions and concerns, and meet our great Southside candidate.

Tuesday, September 22

Wednesday, September 23

Thursday, September 24

Friday, September 25

Saturday, September 26

Sunday, September 27

Tuesday, September 29

Friday, October 2

Saturday, October 10

Saturday, October 24

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Support our endorsed candidates!

State Senate and House

U.S. Senate and House

Statewide offices

Hennepin County offices

Minneapolis School Board

And support our sister district candidates too

  • Chris Ford, running for the District 32 seat to represent Blaine, Ham Lake, and Lexington.
  • Jason Heaser, running for the District 34A seat to represent Champlin, Dayton, and Rogers.
  • Darci Smith, running for the District 37A seat to represent Corcoran, Greenfield, Independence, Loretto, Maple Plain, Medina, and part of Maple Grove.

Our meetings

Nokomis Library The next SD63 Central Committee meeting will be on October 5, 2026, at 6:30pm. Our meetings are hybrid: the upcoming in-person session will be at Trinity Lutheran Church of Minnehaha Falls, 5212 41st Avenue South, and the online session will be via Zoom. All SD63 Central Committee meetings are open to the public.

  • Minutes of recent meetings: May, June.

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.

  • Support us online at secure.actblue.com/donate/sd63dfl

  • Support us by check to MN DFL Senate District 63, and posted to 

     MN DFL Senate District 63
Attn: Treasurer
3616 41st Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406

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.