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SD63 Mini-Update for July 19

In this Update:

Let’s knock for Jason this afternoon!

Just a reminder that today is our first doorknock with our sister district 34A. We’re going to help Jason Heaser win this seat from an awful GOP incumbent — and we need you there with us!

This is the work it will take to flip the House from its current tie back to the DFL majority our state needs. Rebuilding the DFL Trifecta is in our reach! But we need all hands on deck from now until November.

Today is the first of the big weekend daytrips out to Jason’s district for doorknocking and phonebanking that Sam and Emma will lead every month this fall. You can sign up for today’s knock here. And mark your calendar now for the rest of our big weekend knocks with Jason in 34A, three Saturdays: August 15, September 26, and October 24.

The other way we can help Jason is with our financial support. Like any competitive campaign, Jason needs our help to produce mailers for doorknockers, pay for email and text blasts, and fund all of the other elements of a campaign. You can make a donation to Jason’s campaign online.

And let’s show Zaynab our support too!

And our Senator Zaynab Mohamed is holding a fundraiser this afternoon as well! You can join her at the Midtown Exchange from 3-5pm, or make a contribution online if you cannot attend. RSVP and donate here.

Now if you’re thinking that you can’t be in two places at once, then hold on, there’s a third thing…

Unlocking state matching funds for endorsed candidates

Minnesota has a very impactful public subsidy for candidates who agree to certain spending limits. But in order to qualify for these subsidies, candidates must raise small donations from Minnesota voters: at least $1,500, with only the first $50 from any individual counting towards that goal. And the deadline for raising this $1,500 is Monday — so please take action now.

Even in the reddest of districts, when a DFL candidate qualifies for this subsidy it makes the Republicans spend more money on the races. We can be proud that this year the DFL is fielding candidates in literally every MN House and Senate race. But they need our support.

Can we spread GOP resources more thin by helping some DFL candidates from near and far meet the subsidy threshold? Here are a few that could use your help:

Let’s show Sam, Emma, and Zaynab’s current and future colleagues that SD63 comes through!


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.

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