[Mpls] Regarding Mr Atherton's Kahn post

[Loki Anderson]

     Without addressing the substance of Mr. Atherton's post, that Rep Kahn's offense is sufficient grounds to vote her out of office, I did want to address his assertion that the DFL should remove her endorsement and endorse a write-in against her from a technical stand-point. 
     The party's by-laws state that if a candidate has committed an offense deemed "malfeasance or non-feasance" that the local central committee may revoke the endorsement by a two-thirds majority vote of the members eligible to vote, those being the central committee members residing in 59B, in this case. There are approximately twenty-three members of the district central committee who are eligible to vote on that issue (with quite a number of alternates). While there have been a number of spirited posts on this topic on our internal email list, to date no one has requested that this be taken up at a district meeting.
     As for his assertion that we should just endorse a write-in, I'm certain that that could not be done. Local party committees can only make an endorsement if a candidate is not endorsed by the local party convention or if the endorsed candidate does not survive the primary. Since Rep Kahn was duly endorsed and survived the primary, even if she were to have her endorsement revoked I do not believe it would be in order for the party to make a subsequent endorsement.
     I know this seems like a lot of legalese and mumbo-jumbo, but rules like this are designed to prevent the will of the convention delegates from being overturned by a small minority of party honchos.
 
Loki Anderson
Marshall Terrace
Associate Chair
SD 59 DFL


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                                                                         -Martin Luther King Jr.
		
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