DFL City Convention - good news, bad news

[dreamshark]

Bad news

• Spent 7 hours sitting in a high school gym and still couldn't manage two endorsements for at-large school board positions

Good news

• There were 7 good candidates for at-large school board slots (which is probably why we had so much trouble picking just two).
• It was raining all morning any way, and unpleasantly humid after that, so it wasn't like I was missing a great weekend.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Did you endorse even one? Was it Doug Mann?

K. [The Harold Stassen of Kingfield]

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Richard Mammen was endorsed on the second ballot. After 5 ballots it was pretty much a dead heat between T. Williams (the only incumbent who is even running again) and David DeGrio for the second slot. Coincidentally, those were my top three picks of the 7 running. I was also impressed by Chanda Smith-Baker and Muhammed Noor.

There was no Doug Mann.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

The whole damned school board is quitting? Has this made the news?

K.

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Actually, that may not quite be true. All of the school board that would have been up for reelection this year declined to run again. I think there are a couple more incumbents that were NOT up for election this year, and they are hanging in there.

And yes, the Strib does cover this stuff, although not always on the front page.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

The question I'd like an answer to is, did the DFL endorse Chris Stewart for school board in the previous election?

Because if it did, I'm pretty sure I won't have much use for the endorsements...

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

I don't know if they endorsed Chris Stewart.

In any case, you should use your own judgment about whoever you vote for. Earnest though the delegates may be, most of us don't know much more about the candidates than you do. To be honest, I agreed to be a delegate this year largely so I could vote AGAINST Stewart, but then he decided not to run again. Oh well.