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SD63 Update for February 19

In this Update:

Thanks for a great caucus night!

We’re still working on the final count, but we now estimate that over 1,800 neighbors from across our district turned out for caucuses this month.

Caucuses are the foundation of our state’s and our party’s democracy. And this year shows us how committed we all are to keeping our democracy strong. Thank you to each and every one of you who make this year’s caucuses a huge success.

We’ve seen a year of the Minnesota GOP chipping away at the achievements of the DFL trifecta from the last term — and even worse from the national GOP. We’re heading into the election year ready to say no to Trump, no to Emmer, Mike Johnson, Thune and the federal GOP, no to Demuth, Mark Johnson, and the clown car full of GOP gubernatorial candidates: but YES to our democracy, to our state, and to our DFL and its accomplishments for all Minnesotans!

Post-caucus social evening and fundraiser

Please join us to celebrate our awesome caucuses. Enjoy solidarity and conviviality with other DFLers, and hear from the candidates who will seek endorsement at conventions over the next few months. And tell your party leaders about everything that needs to be fixed before the next caucuses (we have already heard about the wifi!).

Volunteer with your local DFL

Are you ready to get involved? Tell us how you’d like to volunteer with the SD63 DFL, and we’ll be in touch!

And a Minneapolis DFL meet-up too

This weekend with SD63, next Tuesday with Minneapolis! Meet DFLers from across the city at the Minneapolis DFL’s An Evening With Allies! — MPLS DFL at PILLLAR. Meet with other DFLers, your elected officials, and candidates for DFL endorsement this spring in a warm and relaxed setting. At the PILLLAR Forum Cafe & Bar, 2300 Central Avenue Northeast.

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.