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In about 3 weeks, delegates to the Minneapolis DFL Convention will gather to endorse school board candidates and elect party officers, including a new Chair. I am excited to announce that I am running to be the next Chair of the Minneapolis DFL. 🧵

I have a lot of issues with Richard’s summary of his first year, so I’ll pick my biggest one: Holding listening sessions is not an accomplishment. What did he hear at the sessions? What changes did he make based on what he heard? How did having them affect overall confidence in the DFL?

Angie Craig’s campaign faces some tough choices. She will lose the endorsement. Any idea that the primary electorate will be more conservative and better for her than the delegates is BS. Her only option would be to use her $ advantage this summer to go scorched earth against the DFL itself.

“Fuck ICE” is Minnesota’s “Aloha.” It means hello, goodbye, and represents our spirit. Thank you for the kind words, Chet.

Wait, Carlbom specifically texted you about people booing Sheriff Witt? The State DFL Chair is spending his time defending a candidate who doesn’t even have the DFL Endorsement?

“I’m not going to make a speech, because we’re running late,” says Jane Fonda as all her papers blow out of her hands and off the stage. That, my friends, is acting.

Would be pretty funny to see Latonya Reeves complain about insiders.

oh no, it was in an admonishing and belittling text message, just to me, from my neighbor & MN DFL chair Richard Carlbom. funny how none of the male chairs received the same personal text message.

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What an incredible thing to live through.

Post. Through. It.

Seriously, Carlbom, thank Minneapolis. I know, you know, St Paul and us are actually the heart of the party.

They’ve tried to primary Omar with increasingly centrist candidates using incredibly shady tactics. Their strategy with Samuels was literally to keep his campaign on the dl so that Omar’s supporters wouldn’t show up for the primary and Samuels could eke by. They were PISSED that it didn’t work.

is richard carlbom just really bad at his job or is he trying to liquidate the entire @dfl.org coalition on purpose?

first off @dfl.org, the original post v CLEARLY states MINNEAPOLIS, not Minnesota. and mehn, do i have some text messages from our party chair Richard Carlbom to share w/ u my dear party staffer. 😡👎

MPD abandoned the people of Minneapolis.

The Stonewall DFL Board of Directors is happy to announce additional endorsements as we continue to work our way through the 2026 election cycle. These additional endorsements can be found in our statement, linked below! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

As expected, no substantive response to what should obviously be a slam-dunk case. Just a message confirming receipt of my email. When I post 100% factual info about Latonya using Black as a pronoun, it is an investigation. When someone accuses me of nonsense federal felonies, nothing from the DFL

Richard text me after i tagged him in Nick’s tweet. it ain’t good!!!

It has been nearly 200 days since I filed a code of conduct complaint against the DFL Feminist Caucus leadership. Since then, I have aided in fighting off a federal invasion, worked to plan caucuses AND our convention, and excelled at my day job. Surely a bunch of retirees can have a meeting???

On Sunday, our interpreter headsets from the state DFL were missing pieces. I called Richard because it’s the party’s job to resolve this and we couldn’t reach party affairs. Richard sent me to voicemail and never followed up.

Richard is worse than useless because he goes out of his way to offer or promise things, and then he NEVER follows through. Leaving people to scramble and pick up the pieces, sacrificing work, sleep, and family time to clean up Richard's failures to deliver. It is DISRESPECTFUL. Don't offer!

Our volunteers scrambled, found a lawyer, and won the case, btw. With no help from Richard, staff, or the party's lawyers. A total failure to support volunteers, not to mention the failure of duty of care and duty of loyalty by refusing to defend your own organization in court.

Which is why it's especially egregious when PAID party officials like @rcarlbom.bsky.social throw volunteers under the bus, like when the Republican-funded super PAC "We Love MPLS" paid to file a frivolous lawsuit against @mplsdfl.org, Richard refused to defend the local party in court.

In all of the chaos that we are currently living though, Stonewall DFL wants take a moment to recognize those putting on conventions around the State of Minnesota. We have heard of some conventions that have upwards of 80% of first time delegates, which is amazing!

im sick & tired of the MN DFL using Minneapolis DFL publicly, & shitting on us privately. ur record 2026 turnout ✅ Minneapolis DFL ur ability to fundraise off our city’s emotional, physical & mutual aid UNPAID labor ✅ Minneapolis DFL organizing & building up our neighbors ✅ Minneapolis DFL

Obviously Don Samuels and now Latonya Reeves couldn’t care less about whether or not we win a trifecta lmao. They’d rather we drain resources in a primary.

Really? Not a single mention for Minneapolis?

My favorite part of Latonya’s website is how she uses her selfie collection to make it look like people actually like her 😂🤣

Does DNC Chair @kenmartin.bsky.social know that his face is being used in campaign lit against Ilhan?

Obviously Don Samuels and now Latonya Reeves couldn’t care less about whether or not we win a trifecta lmao. They’d rather we drain resources in a primary.

Evergreen reminder that current DFL Chair Richard Carlbom’s strategy with Don Samuels’ 2022 campaign was to keep it quiet because they knew Ilhan wasn’t doing much. The goal was to keep her supporters complacent so they wouldn’t show up to vote in the primary. It was shady as shit.

But not Minneapolis? 😔

Back when @kenmartin.bsky.social was Chair, he acknowledged the existence of Minneapolis. I miss Ken.

Really? Not a single mention for Minneapolis?

Today, our Council unanimously passed this crucial protection for renters in our city. I’m proud to have been a co-sponsor of this measure, and far prouder that our city is committed to helping people get the time they need to get back on their feet following Operation Metro Surge.

Wow, turns out Loretta is anti-Klobuchar. Finally something she and the left can agree on 😂

A useful metric indeed

Wow, turns out Loretta is anti-Klobuchar. Finally something she and the left can agree on 😂

On the most recent episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver that came out this past Sunday, John Oliver was doing some JURY TAMPERING!!!

Loretta also specifically calls supporters of Ilhan racist, which is pretty funny.

I decided to let the DFL Code of Conduct Committee know about the Loretta situation. I don’t expect them to actually do anything about it, but at least now they are aware

She ran for GV City Council like 5 years ago and one of her followers called me a white supremacist for not supporting her. My reason for not supporting her was that she supported other shitty candidates like Victor Martinez

Another thought on this: As a general rule, Party Leaders accusing dedicated volunteers of committing Federal Felonies is a great way to demobilize volunteers that are needed for winning statewide elections. But since Loretta self-identifies as an “Independent Republican”, maybe that’s her goal.

I decided to let the DFL Code of Conduct Committee know about the Loretta situation. I don’t expect them to actually do anything about it, but at least now they are aware