Caucus Report Thread

[Lydia Leftcoast]

I went to 13-2, which is the northern part of Linden Hills.

The meeting was run efficiently and lasted only a bit over an hour.

Only two resolutions were introduced, one in support of the striking janitors and one urging the legislature urgently to deal with the shortfall in the teachers' pension fund.

The two highest vote getters in the gubernatorial straw poll were Anderson-Kelleher (22 votes out of 78) and Rybak (27). John Marty was a distant third at 7 votes. No one else got more than 6 votes, and a couple (Lopez, Rukavina, and Savior) got no votes.

I was elected a delegate to both the Senate District and city (which endorses school board candidates) conventions.

[Brickbat]

1. A nice quick meeting.

Five resolutions, but easy ones. The highest vote went to Bakk (17 ?), then Kelliher, then Marty with 11, then Rukavina with 7.

Lake County.

[geardaddy]

2. Minneapolis 10-6

Votes in the following order (I don't remember the actual tally):

Rybak
Anderson-Kelliher
Thissen
Dayton (marked as spoiled ballots)
Marty
Entenza
1 vote each for Rukavina and Kelley

4 resolutions (all adopted):

IRV for the state and local elections
Reduce CO2 to less than 350 million PPM/adopt a specific climate saving strategy
Restrict/outlaw the sale and use of non-organic lawn and garden fertilizers/insecticides in Minneapolis
Adopt street planning for everyone, not just cars

[Bjorn Against]

3. It is looking like it is going to be quite a battle at the convention and in the primaries

With 60% reporting it is clear that no candidate is going to walk away with much more than 20% of the vote, no matter what candidate you refer to 80% of caucus-goers will have voted for someone else. This is looking like it could turn into a brutal battle that won't be decided for a long time. I for one am not looking forward to this.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. How was it at your caucus?

Who came out first and second?

[Bjorn Against]

5. Only ten votes were cast, no one received any more than two votes

[dflprincess]

6. I missed a good bit of my caucus because I was running around

making sure the caucus chairs had all their paper work and helping people find their rooms. I had sworn I was not going to get that involved this year and would actually get to go to my caucus rather than just stop by, sign in and ask to be a delegate. But, like Al Pacino in "Godfather III" - just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in again.

Anyway, turnout was much, much lower that 2 years ago (this was not unexpected) and in my precinct the straw vote was all over the place. Though only 21 people showed up at it this year so our balloting is not a good indication of anything.

I know they passed an IRV resolution, but I don't know if anything else came up. The meeting ended shortly after 8 though there were some precints still going at 9.

[MineralMan]

7. In Saint Paul W-6 P-13, we had only six in attendance.

Kelliher got two votes, with the other four scattered.

I'm now the precinct chair and all six of us are delegates to the Senate District convention. There, I'll be putting my name forward for some district position, but will not be able to attend the state convention.

More in a separate OP.

[ButterflyBlood]

8. Decent turnout in Minneapolis 6-4

50 isn't as bad as where else I've been hearing.

Rybak won with 18 votes, then Kelliher with 9 and Thissen with 8. No one else got over 3.