Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has a spotty record at best, but at least he eventually repelled the “defund the police” mob that took to the streets in violent protests after George Floyd’s murder.
But the radicals in the party exacted their revenge last weekend when the Democratic convention endorsed a socialist over Frey, who won only 32% of the delegates votes.
Frey will still be on the ballot in the November election when he will face State Senator Omar Fateh, an ally of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and a key figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. That’s the same group that provided the shock troops that last month gave Zohran Mawdani the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City.
The crisis of leftist and incompetent “progressive” leadership of America’s big cities is spreading like a poison throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Our great cities are being ruined – one by one.
Common sense Dems – and there are many of them left – are in the minority.
Scott Graham, who chairs the Democratic Party in the Minneapolis area, warns: “The Democratic Socialists of America want to disarm all law enforcement officers. They want to free all incarcerated people, legalize the sex trade, the drug trade, homelessness and squatting.”
Doesn’t it just want to make you jump out of your chair and book a flight to the Twin Cities?