Friday, February 7, 2014
Democrat Politics in Minneapolis in Action
Hat tip Creeping Sharia
On Tuesday night in Minneapolis, there was a Democratic caucus on who would represent the Minneapolis Cedar Riverside district in the Minnesota House.
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/24642158/minneapolis-caucus-fight-brian-coyle-center?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9806533#.UvKcQqDOvbQ&autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9806533&autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipI
If you are wondering what the above video is all about, it seems that about 300 Somali residents showed up to voice their support for their candidate, Muhamud Noor.
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/minnesota-somali-muslims-brawl-abruptly-ending-democratic-cauc
http://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2014/Feb/53163/fight_abruptly_ends_cedar_riverside_caucus.aspx
Seems from the above reports that everybody is shocked-shocked, mind you, at what transpired.
That's one problem with caucuses. Anybody who can gather a few hundred devoted followers can dominate. Ask any old-style urban machine leader, Republican or Democrat. (Yes, several were Republican, even in Chicago).
ReplyDeleteThe last old style urban Republican machine I can think of was Harding or somebody like that.
ReplyDeleteHarding was from rural Ohio... I visited his mausoleum in a park in Marion last year.
ReplyDeleteBig Bill Thompson ran the last Republican machine in Chicago, which lasted well into the 1920s. The Democratic machine became overwhelming when Anton Cermak figured out how to add Poles, Greeks, Italians, and Germans to the Irish by means of the "ethnically balanced ticket."
There were Republican machines in upstate New York cities into the 1950s.