Why Isn't the DNC on Top of the Minneapolis Mayoral Election?

[MineralMan]

Some Democrats seem to think the DNC should be interested in the NYC Mayor's race, but they haven't weighed in on the Minneapolis one.

Why is that?

Could it be that mayoral races around the country are not part of the DNC's purview?

Maybe the DNC should focus on national, rather than local politics, eh?

[spanone]

1. K&R

[Polybius]

2. That's an interesting race, is there a primary?

I've heard Omar Fateh compared to Zohran Mamdani, but there are some differences.

[Ocelot II]

4. Fateh got the party endorsement, but we have ranked choice voting in the general election,

unlike NYC, so the endorsement won't be that significant.

[Polybius]

5. Thank you for the info

Will there be a lot of major candidates on the ballot, like here in NYC (4 major ones)? Is he pretty much a lock to win?

[Ocelot II]

6. I don't think he's a lock to win, though he certainly could.

Frey has been criticized for his management ever since the George Floyd murder, but IMO the real problem lies with the feckless city council. The winner of the election will be either Fateh or Frey, since whatever mutant the GOP comes up with won't have a chance.

[MineralMan]

8. Most people haven't noticed that Frey hasn't had the DFL endorsement

in previous elections, either. He won anyhow.

I don't know how this one will go, but since I don't vote in Minneapolis, I guess I'll let those who do decide who they want as mayor.

[Ocelot II]

10. I do vote in Minneapolis and I haven't decided yet.

Without a functioning city council instead of the current pack of fuckwits neither of them would be able to get much done.

[MineralMan]

11. Well, there certainly is that to consider.

It is an odd collection in that city council, for sure.

[Ocelot II]

3. It's just Minneapolis, not New York - which, in case you didn't notice, is the center of the universe.

What we do here in Flyover Country is of no consequence to anybody but us rubes and shit-kickers. I recall some years ago when some people my family knew from New York came out here to visit, and they looked around and said, in astonishment, "Why...this is a beautiful city!" They literally expected to see cows and chickens in the streets. I don't think the DNC thinks we have cows and chickens in the streets, but for some reason Mamdani's candidacy is being looked at as some kind of national bellwether - which I doubt very much is the case. The voters of NYC will have to decide, and that city has its own unique issues. And so does Minneapolis; but ours aren't as significant because we are not the center of the universe like NYC. Omar Fateh is not Mamdani and Frey is not Cuomo. We'll sort it here, and if DNC stays out of it, so much the better.

[MineralMan]

7. Yes. It's puzzling that some want the DNC to more or less

take over that campaign in NYC. But, they don't give a rat's ass about Minneapolis.

There are some clear parallels between the two races, though.

[Ocelot II]

9. The DNC seems to be worried that Mamdani's success will translate

to other national races. Even though NYC is a BFD, it's still just a city with a lot of unique concerns, not a microcosm of the entire US. It's possible that Mamdani's progressivism will inspire others in a general way; but it's also possible that his success is at least in part a backlash against the objectively terrible Mayor Adams and sex pest Cuomo. Likewise, the party's endorsement of Fateh over Frey might have a lot to do with Frey's inability to get the city council, which has been about as useful as a chocolate teapot, to do anything about the bombed-out 3rd precinct police station or the impasse over the George Floyd memorial - local problems, not big ideological issues.

[MineralMan]

12. NYC has had an odd series of Mayors.

Yes, indeed. Clowns to the right, Jokers to the left. Very odd.

[Polybius]

13. Bloomberg was the most normal

Until he tried to ban large sodas.

[MineralMan]

14. And Rudy, of course....

[Polybius]

16. Lol

Yeah, he was the worst. I was just a little kid, but I hear Ed Koch was pretty good. Seemed a little silly though.

[Celerity]

17. The main difference is that Mandami won the primary and is the only Democrat on the ballot. Minneapolis has multiple

Dems still running.

[MineralMan]

18. No primary here.

[Celerity]

19. Exactly, so there are multiple Dems running. The DNC endorsing Mamdani is not the same situ. Mamdani is the only

Dem left running in the general. In Minneapolis the DNC would have to pick one of several, which I do not condone them doing.

[Ocelot II]

20. Quite true. Fateh and Frey are the well-known ones, but there are three others plus one GOPer,

one independent and one actual Socialist. And this is the first time in 16 years that the local party has endorsed anyone. I have read reports that the convention was something of a goat rodeo and that Frey is appealing the endorsement vote, questioning why only 578 votes were recorded on the first ballot, even though over 1,000 delegates and alternates were checked in. https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-dfl-democrats-endorse-omar-fateh-mayor/601438067 Only Fateh and Frey have reasonably strong chances of winning, but sometimes RCV produces unexpected results.

[mcar]

15. DNC needs to be laser focused

on whatever some on social media deem it so.