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SD63 Update for May 25

In this Update:

Our calendar is back

After a spell of technical problems, our calendar is back! You’ll find campaign and community events at the bottom of this newsletter, and on our web site as well. The campaign events are from DFL-endorsed candidates, as well as candidates for endorsement who provide a way for us to find their events via the Minneapolis DFL website.

Save the date for a picnic!

Mark your calendars for Thursday, June 18, for SD63 DFL’s annual Summer Picnic, candidate meet-and-greet, and fundraiser. We’ll invite this year’s endorsed candidates, and our current elected officials as well. Bring your questions and concerns for the campaigns, and spend a wonderful evening with your DFL neighbors. We hope to see all of you there — that’s 6-8pm on Thursday the 18th!

Town Hall with our SD63 legislators this week

Our SD63 legislators are holding a Town Hall this week. Join our Senator Zaynab Mohamed and our Representatives Samantha Sencer-Mura and Emma Greenman for a look back at this difficult legislative session. We’ll celebrate what we did accomplish, take note of what Republican obstruction blocked, and plan ideas for the next session. The Town Hall will be this Wednesday, May 27, from 6:30-8:00pm. RSVP for the location.

Today’s public debate playbook tip

Attack is opportunity.

When conservatives attack DFL candidates and ideas, use that attention to reset the terms.

Replace their language with our language.

Contrast our values of community support, progress for everyone, and equal opportunity, with their values of tax cuts for the rich, progress for hand-picked groups, and closing doors on our neighbors.

Our SD63 Vice-Chair Pamela Twiss helps run a local study group on the Science of Messaging. You can find more information or sign up for it here. Or, sign up with SD63’s Writers and Data Wranglers volunteer team.

Around town

Events

Campaigns — are you a candidate for DFL endorsement whose events are not listed here? Provide a way for us to find your events via the Minneapolis DFL website — be sure to give the link to a page where your events are listed under the “Campaign events page” entry.

Monday, May 25

Tuesday, May 26

Wednesday, May 27

Thursday, May 28

Friday, May 29

Sunday, May 31

Monday, June 1

Tuesday, June 2

Wednesday, June 3

Thursday, June 4

Saturday, June 6

Sunday, June 7

Monday, June 8

Friday, June 19

Saturday, June 27

Sunday, June 28

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Be sure to add our calendars as separate calendars, and not by importing the events — keeping our calendar separate will allow your device to get updates as we add or change events, and will let you give this calendar its own distinct color, and will let you turn its visibility on or off at your convenience.

Our meetings

The next SD63 Central Committee meeting will be on June 1, 2026, at 6:30pm. Our meetings are hybrid: the in-person session will be at the 40th Street Park (formerly Sibley) Recreation Center, 1900 East 40th Street, and the online session will be via Zoom.

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 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.