The ensuing chaos prompted the police to be called and resulted in finger-pointing over who was at fault. After hours of drama and confusion over the intricacies of convention rules, a group of Warsame supporters stormed the stage as Chughtai and her supporters were preparing to give a speech. The hubbub is part of the fallout from the Minneapolis DFL's 10th Ward convention May 13, when first-time candidate Warsame challenged one-term City Council Member Aisha Chughtai for the DFL endorsement. "The Somali community condemns it even more vociferously than we do," Martin said of the convention chaos that prompted it all.Īfter the votes Tuesday, Martin said the DFL's action "sends a message that we will not tolerate this stuff in the future." Mohamed said the proposed ban is "silencing" the Somali community, and is "counterproductive to the DFL Party's values of inclusion and democratic process."ĭFL Party Chair Ken Martin responded to that criticism at the beginning of Tuesday's meeting, saying he had spoken with numerous leaders and elders in the Somali community, and he said they supported taking strong action. "Many Somali organizers, politicians, and community members including me have worked so hard for the last decades to include new voters in the process and the DFL Party," Mohamud Mohamed, a member of the party's Central Committee who was part of a lobbying effort pushing for something less than a lifetime ban, said in a statement. Within the Somali community, opinions over Warsame vary, but there is widespread agreement that a ban, potentially for life, would be extreme - and could damage the DFL's relationship with one of its most loyal constituencies. virtual meeting of the party's Central Committee and debated well into the evening.
More than 300 DFL Party activists logged on to a 6 p.m. It also approved a change to its rules that opens the door to potentially banishing Warsame - and others in his campaign - from the party altogether. The Minnesota DFL voted Tuesday to ban Nasri Warsame, the Minneapolis City Council candidate whose supporters stormed the stage of a convention earlier this month, from ever seeking the party endorsement.
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