Why we can't support DSA-backed City Council candidates - strib oped

Signed by many active in the DFL. the only name that I recognize is Martha Holton Dimick:

We are lifelong Democrats who hold DFL Party positions and have given much to the party over time. We feel compelled to take leaves of absences, from now through Nov. 8, and we wish to express our reasons. On the morning of Oct. 7, we woke to stories of unspeakable atrocities committed by the terrorist organization Hamas against thousands of innocent civilians, most Israeli but some Americans, too.

From its launching pad in Gaza, Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel's population centers, then breached its land defenses. Hamas poured into Israeli towns and villages, slaughtered entire families, set houses on fire and shot residents as they fled. They killed children and burned their bodies; they raped young women. Teenagers enjoying a music festival took refuge from them in a shed, and they lobbed cluster grenades at them. They seized children and elderly as hostages, dragged them back to Gaza, to unspeakable fates.

Two days later, on Oct. 9, the Twin Cities Democratic Socialists of America (TCDSA) released a statement expressing solidarity not with the victims, but with Palestine. It did not mention the Hamas atrocities, much less condemn them. The statement reiterated the TCDSA's routinely belligerent stance toward Israel, concluding with the slogan: "From the River to Sea!," which is a battle cry to eliminate the world's only Jewish state.

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We cannot say if the TCDSA is steeped in Jew-hatred, or if it simply is unable to find the moral clarity of which Gov. Walz spoke. It hardly matters: Jew-hatred flourishes in the absence of moral clarity.

There is no room for moral vacuity or hate within the DFL. Yet in 2023, the DFL has endorsed four candidates for Minneapolis City Council who previously had sought and received endorsements by the TCDSA. The candidates are Soren Stevenson (Eighth Ward), Jason Chavez (Ninth Ward), Aisha Chughtai (10th Ward) and Aurin Chowdhury (12th Ward). In their TCDSA endorsement questionnaires, all said they support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks to eliminate Israel. As of Oct. 15, none of these candidates had disavowed TCDSA's justification of Hamas' rampage against Jews, and when asked by Star Tribune reporters to comment about the TCDSA statement, all refused.

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https://www.startribune.com/why-we-cant-support-dsa-backed-city-council-candidates/600312641/

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I don't get it: city council offices, usually, are not partisan. Are they in Minneapolis? And if not, why the endorsements?

A party should not endorse in non partisan races. This is how we ended up with the Mary Moriarty disaster. Many voted for her because she was endorsed by the DFL. assuming that Dimick was a Republican.