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SD63 Update for November 12

In this Update:

Wednesday is our Winter Get-Together

Join us this week on Wednesday night, November 13, 6pm at Parkway Pizza for SD63 DFL’s Annual Winter Get-Together and Fundraiser! Let’s celebrate our wins here at home, mourn our losses at the national level, and start building for the future — in two years we’ll defend all of the state-wide constitutional offices, plus Senator Tina Smith’s seat, plus our best shot at taking one of the federal houses.

In these winter gatherings we focus on recurring monthly donations. Small recurring donations are a stable foundation: they give us the most predictable basis for planning your caucuses and district convention, reaching out to new voters, and boosting competitive DFL campaigns in other parts of the state.

This year we have a fantastic matching offer. The SD63 DFL officers have pledged to match new and increased recurring monthly donations of $5 or more make this week, before the end of the day on Friday. If we have just eight of these new or increased recurring donations, we’ll earn a matching contribution of $200. And if we have twelve monthlies at or increased by $5, that match will double to $400.

Can you help us reach this goal? Start or increase your your monthly donation now. Or, join us in person this Wednesday, and set up your recurring donation there.

Survey on Nicollet Avenue’s redevelopment

Minneapolis is now conducting a survey on the redevelopment of Nicollet Avenue above Lake Street: give your feedback here. The survey will be open through November 15.

Also through November 15, the city is taking applications for the Minneapolis poet laureate: see the position’s guidelines and application links, and more information on the city’s website.

Hosmer Library

Our meetings

The next SD63 Central Committee meeting will be on December 4, 2024, 6:30pm. Our meetings are hybrid: November’s 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.

Minutes of recent meetings: August, September; October to appear.

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.