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SD63 Update for October 28

In this Update:

We’re almost to Election Day! There’s still time to hit the campaign trail — our DFL endorsed candidates need your help to get out every vote we can. You’ll find the calendar of all the events we know about for candidates running in areas overlapping SD63, plus a few other items of note.

Save the date: SD63 DFL’s pizza party

Once again, it’s time to mark our wins in 2025. Join us the evening of Wednesday, November 12, at Parkway Pizza Longfellow for our Third Annual Post-Election Pizza Party. We’ll celebrate elections and re-elections, and start planning next year’s work. More information coming soon!



Informational picket with the MFE

As a strike vote nears, the Minneapolis Federation of Educators is holding an informational picket to raise awareness about the roadmap they are promoting for our schools. The picket is this Tuesday, October 28, outside of the John B. Davis Education Service Center (1250 West Broadway) — and they welcome all members of the community to join them.

They are seeking enforceable limits on both general class sizes and special education case loads, as well as pay increases for education support staff and adult educators in particular, and for licensed teaching staf f in general. These improvements are key to keeping both skilled staff working in our schools, and families in Minneapolis.

More information, and an RSVP form if you can attend, are available online.

Openings with the Minnesota College Democrats

The MN College Dems have several openings on their board: for Finance Director, Twin Cities Regional Director, and Regional Directors for Central, Southern, and Northern Minnesota. All Minnesota college students are eligible to apply. Their application form is online, and you can reach them for more information at minnesotacollegedemocrats@gmail.com.

Patricia Torres Ray honored

Our Senator Emerita, Patricia Torres Ray, was honored by the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation in their 2025 Facing Race Awards. From their notes: “Patricia is recognized locally and nationally for her dedication to dismantling disparities and creating opportunities for women, immigrants and marginalized communities. Among her many honors is the prestigious Joan and Walter Mondale Leadership Award. For more than 35 years, Patricia has been highlighting the urgent need to address racial and economic disparities in our state.”

Congratulations Patricia!

Around town

Events

Tuesday, October 28

Wednesday, October 29

Thursday, October 30

Friday, October 31

Saturday, November 1

Doorknock in Ward 8 with Soren Stevenson  2pm, Room 308 (Sabathani Community Center, 310 East 38th Street, signup for more details)

 

Sunday, November 2

Monday, November 3

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Our meetings

The next SD63 Central Committee meeting will be on November 5, 2025, at 6:30pm. The November meeting will be online-only, via Zoom (although normally our meetings are hybrid).

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 opport unities 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 thi s 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.

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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.